President Donald Trump fired five of the seven members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (FOMBPR).
The Democrat-aligned officials were ousted on Friday, as reported by Breitbart News.
An official at the White House informed Breitbart that Chairman Arthur J. Gonzalez, Cameron McKenzie, Betty Rosa, Juan Sabater, and Luis Ubiñas were taken off the board.
The remaining two members, Andrew Biggs and John Nixon, remain in place.
“The Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico has been run inefficiently and ineffectively by its governing members for far too long, and it’s time to restore common sense leadership,” the official said.
The official said, and a 2017 Daily Caller report supports, that the average salary of the board members is approximately $214,000.
This massive salary is 10 times the median household income of $20,078 in Puerto Rico.
All of the board members were appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2016.
He also appointed Robert F. Mujica Jr., previously the “budget guru” for Democrat former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the board’s executive director.
Mujica received a reported salary of $625,000.
As Cuomo’s budget guru, Mujica formerly made $216,000, so it was a huge jump for