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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peggy Chong via Colorado-Talk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 9, 2025 4:59 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Colorado-Talk] Trump Fires Librarian of Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Hello All. I learned of this today from Julia Zanon and Oh MY Gosh!!! It is true. I did not think that Trump could fire the head of the Library of Congress as it is
the Congresses library, but he did. Here is an article from USA Today. In other articles, he talks about the collection having offensive material. This is where our books for the blind come from. I did not think I would ever be saying this but our collection
is in danger of censorship.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Via email, Trump fires head of Library of Congress<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/staff/4395312002/trevor-hughes/">Trevor Hughes</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">USA TODAY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">President Donald Trump fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, via email, a move that immediately drew sharp condemnation from her supporters.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">"President Trump’s ignorant decision will impact America’s libraries, our copyrighted economic interests, and service to the American people by threatening support for
Congress," Rep. Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat, posted to social media shortly after Hayden's firing became public late May 8. "His decision is a complete disgrace."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Added Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat: "Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden — the Librarian of Congress — via email. This is disgraceful.
The Library of Congress represents some of the best America has to offer. Equal access to learning for all."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Hayden was nominated to her position by then-President Barack Obama in 2016, and confirmed by the Senate a year later. She was the first woman and first Black American
to lead the nation's official library, which as the world's largest library records and preserves millions of books, films, photos and manuscripts. It's also home to the U.S. Copyright Office.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Hayden appeared before a Congressional committee earlier in the week, facing questions from a library modernization project whose cost has ballooned while completion
deadlines have been repeatedly delayed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Hayden is a professional librarian who first met Obama when she worked at the Chicago Public Library. She had been leading the "Of the People" initiative to bring more
works from Black, indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and other communities of color into the library's collections.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Trump has repeatedly targeted programs and people who he considers improperly advancing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The White House did not immediately offer
a statement or comment on Hayden's firing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Critics of Trump's decision lambasted both the firing itself and the way it was carried out: via an email sent to Hayden at 6:56 p.m. Eastern time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">“While President Trump wants to ban books and tell Americans what to read – or not to read at all, Dr. Hayden has devoted her career to making reading and the pursuit
of knowledge available to everyone," New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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