American partisan strife intensifies Biden’s demand for Trump-appointed officials to resign.
Kathy Russell, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, recently sent a letter to more than a dozen members of the supervisory board of well-known military academies, urging them to resign before leaving work on the 8 th local time, or they will face dismissal. These dozen people were appointed by former Republican President Trump in the last few months of his tenure. White House press secretary Jane Psaki confirmed the news.
White House Press Secretary Jane Psaki:I will let others evaluate whether Kelly Anne Conway and Sean spicer are qualified to serve on these committees, but the qualification requirement of the president is not the registration of political parties, but whether you are qualified to serve and whether you are consistent with the values of this administration.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean spicer:I will formally respond tonight, and I will not submit my resignation. I will file a lawsuit and fight to the end.
Conway also shouted to Biden from a distance, "I won’t resign, you should resign." She issued a statement through social media, accusing Biden of this move to divert attention, because Biden was caught in a self-caused crisis and the number of opinion polls dropped sharply.
The "deadlock" between the two parties triggered by the resignation storm reflects the intensification of polarization and party struggle between the two parties in the United States.
Recently, Republicans in the US Congress have repeatedly criticized Biden’s administration for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, and said that impeachment is not ruled out. Biden blamed former President Trump for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying that the latter negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban when he was in office. He only followed the established promise and pushed back the withdrawal deadline set by Trump for several months. However, recent polls show that Biden’s support rate is declining because of his Afghanistan policy, which makes Biden’s government, which is very sensitive to the trend of public opinion, very worried.
In addition, The New York Times reported on September 8th that U.S. Treasury Secretary janet yellen warned the U.S. Congress that if Congress did not take timely action to raise the debt ceiling or suspend its entry into force, the United States would probably run out of funds and trigger a historic debt default sometime in October this year. On this issue, the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States are busy with political wrangling.
Party struggle intensifies the risk of US government shutdown.
The New York Times said that Democrats blamed former President Trump for the debt ceiling several months ago, claiming that the Trump administration’s spending and tax cuts led the US government to reach the debt ceiling. Senate Republican leader McConnell has expressed his opposition to standing with Democrats. The US Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) said that the continuous partisan struggle means that unless the US Congress temporarily relieves the debt ceiling crisis, the US government will once again fall into a "closed door" situation.
The suspension of the US federal government is nothing new, but the "closed door" that has become a means of party struggle will surely make the American people hold a more negative view of the political trend of the United States and let more people be disappointed with the politics of the two parties.