Trump takes disciplinary action against TVA leadership

President Donald Trump said Monday that he had fired chair of Tennessee Valley Authority claiming it has betrayed American workers.

Trump told reporters at White House that he was formally removing authority’s chair of board and ar member of board and threatened to remove or board members if y keep hiring foreign labor.

TVA is a federally owned corporation created in 1933 to provide flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing and ecomic development to Tennessee Valley, a region that was hard hit by Great Depression. region covers most of Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky as well as small sections of Georgia, rth Carolina and Virginia.

He said TVA board must immediately hire a new chief executive officer that “puts interests of Americans first.”

U.S. Tech Workers, a nprofit that wants to limit visas given to foreign techlogy workers, took out an ad to persuade Trump to stop TVA from outsourcing much of its information techlogy division. group, led by Kevin Lynn, criticized TVA for furloughing its own workers and replacing m with contractors using foreign workers with H-1B visas.