One of the highest-ranking black women in the Trump administration has announced that she is resigning due to President Donald Trump’s handling of the recent racial injustice and police brutality protests, according to Business Insider.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, who at 30 was the youngest person and first Black woman to serve as assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the State Department, has been with the Trump administration from the first day of his presidency.
She stated she was resigning over President Trump’s handling of anti-racism protests in a letter of resignation she submitted to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The President’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions,” Taylor wrote in her resignation letter to Pompeo according to The Washington Post.
The Republican, who once worked with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, had penned a letter earlier this month to her team of roughly 60 State Department employees acknowledging that in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death that her heart “is broken, in a way from which I’ve had to heal it countless times.”
