WASHINGTON — A Trump administration appointee whose anti-L.G.B.T.Q. comments had spurred calls for her removal has left the United States Agency for International Development, an agency spokeswoman said on Monday.
The appointee, Merritt Corrigan, had drawn scrutiny shortly after becoming the agency’s deputy White House liaison this year because of her previous statements that America is in the grip of a “homo-empire” pushing a “tyrannical LGBT agenda.” She had also argued that “America has no moral imperative to accept immigrants” and called for women to take up traditional roles of wife, mother and homemaker.