The White House told Gustafson that she was being fired effective 5 p.m. Friday after she refused to resign willingly.
Gautam Raghavan, the White House deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, responded in an email that she was being fired as of Friday evening.
Neither the White House nor the EEOC immediately responded to requests for comment from The Hill.
Andrea Lucas, a Republican-appointed commissioner to the EEOC, described the firing as a violation of Biden’s calls for unity.
In his inaugural address, the President said, “The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation’s greatest strength.”
"President Biden should take a note from General Counsel Gustafson, who stuck to her commitment and refused to cave to partisan pressure.
This unprecedented firing of an honorable public official which occurred just hours after she was asked to resign is unwarranted and should be immediately rescinded," Foxx said. »