The White House confirmed Tuesday evening some members of President Trump’s infrastructure advisory council have resigned.
Although the White House gave no reason, the resignations follow a pattern in which several people left his manufacturing council after his controversial response to racial violence in Charlottesville, Va.
“We can confirm that a number of members of the NIAC who had been appointed under the previous administration have submitted their resignation,” the statement said, according to a report.
The White House did not state the names of those who stepped down or their reasons for doing so.
Last Wednesday, Trump abruptly announced he was disbanding his manufacturing council of business leaders as well as his CEO strategy and policy forum.
“Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!” Trump tweeted Wednesday afternoon.
The unexpected change came minutes after the eighth CEO resigned from the manufacturing council. A number of those who left cited Trump’s response to a white nationalist rally where counter-protesters also gathered around a Confederate monument in Charlottesville.
Trump has dismissed the resignations as company leaders being “embarrassed” that they make products outside the U.S. despite their being on a task force that advocates for U.S. jobs and economic issues.
Sixteen members of Trump’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned from their posts Friday.
