The Trump administration on Tuesday removed several of former President Joe Biden’s appointees from a board that oversees the United States Holocaust Museum, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” Emhoff said in a statement obtained by The New York Times. “Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous — and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve.”

Emhoff, who is Jewish, frequently denounced the rise in antisemitism during Biden’s term and was appointed to the board by the former president.

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