The Democratic National Committee asked for the resignation of all its staff members after former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected chairman of the party body at the end of February. Leah Daughtry, a veteran DNC adviser and co-chair of Perez’s transition advisory committee, asked staff members to put forward resignation letters dated April 15, which NBC News first reported and The Huffington Post has confirmed. Current and future DNC staff will be integral to that effort,” Hinojosa said. “Over the last few months, the DNC staff has done incredible work under immense pressure to hold Trump accountable,” she added. Sources within the DNC said that the resignations are part of an institution-wide evaluation and that they expect many current staff members to be kept on.

Source: Huffington Post March 28, 2017 22:30 UTC