Biden Fires trump-Appointed Social Security Administration Chief

[DrLove]

All Rump holdovers must go. This is the same asshole who refused to provide list of SS recipients resulting in long delays of stimulus direct deposits. Good riddance.

Next up = Louis DeJoy at USPS. Biden has named three new board members. The days remaining for his unqualified, pathetic, corrupt ass are numbered!

 

[DrLove]

Most of the people trump appointed weren't qualified for the job.

The bush boy did it too but not as much.

I'm sure we all remember the dog show guy who he appointed to head FEMA who allowed New Orleans to drown and the bush boy said he was doing a "heck of a job."

Ahh yes - the horsey track manager who botched Katrina. Who could forget?

 

[bripat9643]

Has there EVER, in American history, been an administration that appointed department heads more unqualified to lead them than the four years of the Trump administration?

This was not done accidentally, it was done deliberately. It was done to show contempt for each department of government, and Trump supporters could not have been more pleased to see the government intentionally hamstring.

However, one of the most egregious department heads under Trump, the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, is still in office. He worked to intentionally affect the election by removing sorting machines, mailboxes, and cutting overtime. He HAS to be removed.

"Qualified" meaning he's a member of the swamp in good standing. Yes, cleaning out the swamp was intentional. That's why the progs went so insane about Trump. He was cleaning them out of their nest.

 

[bripat9643]

All Rump holdovers must go. This is the same asshole who refused to provide list of SS recipients resulting in long delays of stimulus direct deposits. Good riddance.

Next up = Louis DeJoy at USPS. Biden has named three new board members. The days remaining for his unqualified, pathetic, corrupt ass are numbered!

ROFL! You have enunciated exactly why Biden and his prog army must go.

 

[badger2]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

What else could O do but to go along with his choices? After all, here was an Arab in the White House fronting as a black African.

 

[Smokin' OP]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

 

[struth]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

haha couldn’t get rid of him? he could have fired him idiot..just like Xiden did this guy.

Frankly, him leaving a turning it over to the obama admin was a mistake…wait times at the SSA for hearings drastically increased.

 

[Smokin' OP]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

haha couldn’t get rid of him? he could have fired him idiot..just like Xiden did this guy.

Frankly, him leaving a turning it over to the obama admin was a mistake…wait times at the SSA for hearings drastically increased.

Obama let him serve his term, they are protected, you moron.

In 1994, Congress restructured the Social Security Administration (SSA). For the prior five decades, the single-member Commissioner could be removed at will. But 42 U.S.C. § 902(a)(3) granted the Commissioner a fixed six-year term, and tenure protections. He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

For the past quarter century, the SSA Commissioner has served with tenure protections.
Until Friday, July 9. President Biden fired Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover who was appointed to a six-year term in 2019.
And, according to reports, Saul said he isn't leaving. He said, "I consider myself the term-protected Commissioner of Social Security." Saul plans to be at work Monday morning–though he will work remotely from New York.

​

 

[struth]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

haha couldn’t get rid of him? he could have fired him idiot..just like Xiden did this guy.

Frankly, him leaving a turning it over to the obama admin was a mistake…wait times at the SSA for hearings drastically increased.

Obama let him serve his term, they are protected, you moron.

In 1994, Congress restructured the Social Security Administration (SSA). For the prior five decades, the single-member Commissioner could be removed at will. But 42 U.S.C. § 902(a)(3) granted the Commissioner a fixed six-year term, and tenure protections. He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

For the past quarter century, the SSA Commissioner has served with tenure protections.
Until Friday, July 9. President Biden fired Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover who was appointed to a six-year term in 2019.
And, according to reports, Saul said he isn't leaving. He said, "I consider myself the term-protected Commissioner of Social Security." Saul plans to be at work Monday morning–though he will work remotely from New York.

​

hahaa dumb ass this thread is about a president firing one. They serve a 6 year term but at the pleasure of the president. Geez

 

[Smokin' OP]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

haha couldn’t get rid of him? he could have fired him idiot..just like Xiden did this guy.

Frankly, him leaving a turning it over to the obama admin was a mistake…wait times at the SSA for hearings drastically increased.

Obama let him serve his term, they are protected, you moron.

In 1994, Congress restructured the Social Security Administration (SSA). For the prior five decades, the single-member Commissioner could be removed at will. But 42 U.S.C. § 902(a)(3) granted the Commissioner a fixed six-year term, and tenure protections. He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

For the past quarter century, the SSA Commissioner has served with tenure protections.
Until Friday, July 9. President Biden fired Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover who was appointed to a six-year term in 2019.
And, according to reports, Saul said he isn't leaving. He said, "I consider myself the term-protected Commissioner of Social Security." Saul plans to be at work Monday morning–though he will work remotely from New York.

​

hahaa dumb ass this thread is about a president firing one. They serve a 6 year term but at the pleasure of the president. Geez

Wow, you're a "genius" like Trump.

No they don't serve at the "pleasure' of the president, idiot.

He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

Biden gave his reasons.

"Since taking office, Commissioner Saul has undermined and politicized Social Security disability benefits, terminated the agency's telework policy that was utilized by up to 25 percent of the agency's workforce, not repaired SSA's relationships with relevant Federal employee unions including in the context of COVID-19 workplace safety planning, reduced due process protections for benefits appeals hearings, and taken other actions that run contrary to the mission of the agency and the President's policy agenda," the White House official said.

 

[struth]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

haha couldn’t get rid of him? he could have fired him idiot..just like Xiden did this guy.

Frankly, him leaving a turning it over to the obama admin was a mistake…wait times at the SSA for hearings drastically increased.

Obama let him serve his term, they are protected, you moron.

In 1994, Congress restructured the Social Security Administration (SSA). For the prior five decades, the single-member Commissioner could be removed at will. But 42 U.S.C. § 902(a)(3) granted the Commissioner a fixed six-year term, and tenure protections. He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

For the past quarter century, the SSA Commissioner has served with tenure protections.
Until Friday, July 9. President Biden fired Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover who was appointed to a six-year term in 2019.
And, according to reports, Saul said he isn't leaving. He said, "I consider myself the term-protected Commissioner of Social Security." Saul plans to be at work Monday morning–though he will work remotely from New York.

​

hahaa dumb ass this thread is about a president firing one. They serve a 6 year term but at the pleasure of the president. Geez

Wow, you're a "genius" like Trump.

No they don't serve at the "pleasure' of the president, idiot.

He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

Biden gave his reasons.

"Since taking office, Commissioner Saul has undermined and politicized Social Security disability benefits, terminated the agency's telework policy that was utilized by up to 25 percent of the agency's workforce, not repaired SSA's relationships with relevant Federal employee unions including in the context of COVID-19 workplace safety planning, reduced due process protections for benefits appeals hearings, and taken other actions that run contrary to the mission of the agency and the President's policy agenda," the White House official said.

haha yes they serve at the pleasure of the president.

bottomline though Obama and Xiden should have keep the Poet in place, we see how they screwed things up left on their own…wait times massively increased

 

[Smokin' OP]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

haha couldn’t get rid of him? he could have fired him idiot..just like Xiden did this guy.

Frankly, him leaving a turning it over to the obama admin was a mistake…wait times at the SSA for hearings drastically increased.

Obama let him serve his term, they are protected, you moron.

In 1994, Congress restructured the Social Security Administration (SSA). For the prior five decades, the single-member Commissioner could be removed at will. But 42 U.S.C. § 902(a)(3) granted the Commissioner a fixed six-year term, and tenure protections. He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

For the past quarter century, the SSA Commissioner has served with tenure protections.
Until Friday, July 9. President Biden fired Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover who was appointed to a six-year term in 2019.
And, according to reports, Saul said he isn't leaving. He said, "I consider myself the term-protected Commissioner of Social Security." Saul plans to be at work Monday morning–though he will work remotely from New York.

​

hahaa dumb ass this thread is about a president firing one. They serve a 6 year term but at the pleasure of the president. Geez

Wow, you're a "genius" like Trump.

No they don't serve at the "pleasure' of the president, idiot.

He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

Biden gave his reasons.

"Since taking office, Commissioner Saul has undermined and politicized Social Security disability benefits, terminated the agency's telework policy that was utilized by up to 25 percent of the agency's workforce, not repaired SSA's relationships with relevant Federal employee unions including in the context of COVID-19 workplace safety planning, reduced due process protections for benefits appeals hearings, and taken other actions that run contrary to the mission of the agency and the President's policy agenda," the White House official said.

haha yes they serve at the pleasure of the president.

bottomline though Obama and Xiden should have keep the Poet in place, we see how they screwed things up left on their own…wait times massively increased

You're brain dead, par for the course for Trumping/Q NUTS.

Serving at the pleasure of the president means the president can fire a person for no reason, at any time.

 

[struth]

The man wasn't even qualified for the job. He worked at a woman's sporting clothes company before trump appointed him.

And this would be an example of Trump’s contempt for sound, responsible governance – appoint those unqualified for their position.

hahaa you realize he replaced Obama and Xiden’s appointee…Michael Astrue..who was a poet. Seriously…this guy has years of experience in finance and handling retirement funds…obama and Xiden has a guy that wrote poems

Astrue was appointed by Bush in 2006.
A poet and a lawyer.
It took a while but Obama fired him in 2013.

haha he was in office til 2013 when he stepped down…obama never appointed anyone to replace him.

Obama and xiden thought the poet was doing just fine. Trump appointed someone that actually had experience running successful retirement funds

No, moron, Obama couldn't get rid of the idiot.
Michael J. Astrue was sworn in today as the Commissioner of Social Security at the agency’s national headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. He will serve a six-year term that expires on January 19, 2013.

President Barack Obama nominated Carolyn Watts Colvin to be commissioner of Social Security. Colvin has been serving in the job in an acting capacity since February 14, 2013.

You're so FOS.

haha couldn’t get rid of him? he could have fired him idiot..just like Xiden did this guy.

Frankly, him leaving a turning it over to the obama admin was a mistake…wait times at the SSA for hearings drastically increased.

Obama let him serve his term, they are protected, you moron.

In 1994, Congress restructured the Social Security Administration (SSA). For the prior five decades, the single-member Commissioner could be removed at will. But 42 U.S.C. § 902(a)(3) granted the Commissioner a fixed six-year term, and tenure protections. He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

For the past quarter century, the SSA Commissioner has served with tenure protections.
Until Friday, July 9. President Biden fired Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump holdover who was appointed to a six-year term in 2019.
And, according to reports, Saul said he isn't leaving. He said, "I consider myself the term-protected Commissioner of Social Security." Saul plans to be at work Monday morning–though he will work remotely from New York.

​

hahaa dumb ass this thread is about a president firing one. They serve a 6 year term but at the pleasure of the president. Geez

Wow, you're a "genius" like Trump.

No they don't serve at the "pleasure' of the president, idiot.

He could "be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

Biden gave his reasons.

"Since taking office, Commissioner Saul has undermined and politicized Social Security disability benefits, terminated the agency's telework policy that was utilized by up to 25 percent of the agency's workforce, not repaired SSA's relationships with relevant Federal employee unions including in the context of COVID-19 workplace safety planning, reduced due process protections for benefits appeals hearings, and taken other actions that run contrary to the mission of the agency and the President's policy agenda," the White House official said.

haha yes they serve at the pleasure of the president.

bottomline though Obama and Xiden should have keep the Poet in place, we see how they screwed things up left on their own…wait times massively increased

You're brain dead, par for the course for Trumping/Q NUTS.

Serving at the pleasure of the president means the president can fire a person for no reason, at any time.

nah just mean they can can them. Like Xiden did here and Obama could have done. Obama really should have keep him though, given the mess they created without him

 

[Dragonlady]

The guy knows how to run a business. And that is what SS needed.

​

The Social Security Act states a commissioner “may be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office."​

There is a great fallacy that Republicans seem to be completely bought into and that is "government should be run like a private business". Government should NEVER be run like a business because their basic goals are completely different.

Business exists to make a profit. Government's role is to fill in those areas of public need that are not profitable and cannot be successfully or equitably be dealt with by for-profit corporations.

Jaw-Dropping Stats About the State of Retirement in America

It's never too late to get your retirement plans in order.

www.gobankingrates.com

The USA has the same numbers of old people as other first world nations, as a percentage of population, but they have much higher rates of higher rate among those adults of underlying chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, respiratory conditions, and heart disease. Lack of insurance and high co-pays keeps Americans from seeking treatment until their conditions are chronic and dangerous.

The USA also has a lower health system capacity - fewer beds per thousands of population, that most first world countries, because the high rates of uninsured Americans reduces profitability under your health care system.

Lack of competition and corporate consolidation has just resulting in a health crisis in the production of baby formula. When one company controls 50% of the market for a product, and that company has contamination problems which are killing babies, Joe Biden did not do that - but Ronald Reagan did, when he gutted the anti-trust laws, and let big business take control of markets, squeezing out smaller manufacturers and limiting imports.

Republicans make it their business to ensure government programs are so over-burdened with administration, means testing, and fraud control, that they cannot possibly be efficient or successful. That which they wish to destroy, must first be rendered unworkable. So they attack CRT and LGTB issues in public schools, while ignoring the impact of covid, 2 years of chaos, remote learning, and causing teachers to leave the profession by the thousands, in order to destroy public education, and ensure that poor and minorities students in poor districts don't even have a public school to attend. See New Orleans School District post Katrina.

This piece of what happened in New Orleans when charter schools move in was written in 2018, and contains additional links to several studies done by both opponents and proponents of Charter Schools. There is now a clarion call for repeal of the Charter School Experiment as a complete failure for the children of low income families in New Orleans, and calls for a return to "neighbourhood schools", which is now being backed up in study after study being completed by independent bodies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/09/04/real-story-new-orleans-its-charter-schools/

Baker disagrees with the assumption that the portfolio-charter reform was the predominant cause of improvements. He identified two important factors downplayed by Harris and his team: the role of increased funding apart from the structural changes of school governance, and the significant reductions in the number of students who lived in extreme poverty, post-Katrina.

60,000 fewer children enroll in New Orleans schools post-Katrina. While many poor families were evacuated from the city, and many never returned, because their families lost their homes and had no money or insurance to rebuild. Since developers had long wanted to exploit waterfront land in the 9th Ward, politicians from all levels of government dragged their feet on any rebuilding of homes for the low income families living on that land before the Hurricane.

Capitalism does love to exploit a disaster.

 

[Dragonlady]

nah just mean they can can them. Like Xiden did here and Obama could have done. Obama really should have keep him though, given the mess they created without him

No, what it means is that Donald Trump appointed a bunch of self-dealing fuckups, to royally screw with successful government agencies. He imbedded his own version of his favourite conspiracy theory, the "Deep State", at the top of government agencies precisely because they're "tenure" appointments and these people would continue his chaos whether he was there or not.

Louis DeJoy's appointment as PostMaster General. DeJoy's destruction of the postal service personally benefits his own courier and delivery service. Trump hired DeJoy for the sole purpose of fucking with mail-in ballots, and giving Trump cover for saying the post office couldn't handle the volume of mail. DeJoy has also threatened to sue if he's fired.

Robert Redfield at the CDC is another one. By the time Biden fired Redfield, the CDC's reputation both in the USA and throughout the world, was in tatters, and Trump used Redfield's mismanagement of the test roll out to paint the entire organization as incompetent, and dismiss Dr. Faucci's public health initiatives as the work of a doddering old fool who didn't know what he was doing. "I alone can fix it".

Robert Wilkie was appointed by Trump to privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs, and turn all veteran care over to the private sector. Biden fired him too.