Overview
- Ingrassia told DHS colleagues he accepted the GSA job after President Trump offered it in an Oval Office meeting Wednesday night.
- A White House official confirmed he is now serving at the agency, and a GSA spokesperson welcomed his legal work to advance the agency’s mission.
- He withdrew last month as nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel after reports of racist and antisemitic texts, with Senate Leader John Thune saying, “He’s not going to pass.”
- The GSA role bypasses the confirmation process required for the OSC position, which handles whistleblower protections and ethics cases.
- Ingrassia’s lawyer disputes the text-message reporting as manipulated or out of context, and Ingrassia has filed a defamation suit against Politico over separate sexual-harassment coverage.