Biden fires Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul
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President Biden fired Trump-era Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul Friday morning, for undermining and politicizing Social Security benefits, according to a White House official.
The president asked for Saul's and Deputy Commissioner David Black's resignation, the official said. Black agreed to resign, but Saul refused, so he was notified that his employment was terminated. The Biden administration deemed Saul's actions as commissioner as "contrary" to the Social Security Administration's mission and to Mr. Biden's agenda. Among other issues, the White House complained that Saul ended the SSA's telework policy, which was used by a quarter of its workers.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.