Overview
- GSA officials confirmed Ingrassia is serving as deputy general counsel and said his legal work will support the agency’s mission and the President’s priorities.
- Ingrassia told colleagues in an email that President Trump offered him the role on Wednesday night, and he accepted as he prepared to leave his DHS liaison post.
- He withdrew last month from consideration to lead the Office of Special Counsel after Politico published messages attributed to him that allegedly included a claim of having a “Nazi streak” and disparaged Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
- Republican resistance doomed his confirmation prospects, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune stating, “He’s not going to pass.”
- An attorney for Ingrassia has disputed the characterization of the texts, saying they may have been manipulated or stripped of context and framed them as satirical or self‑deprecating.