Former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan, who was removed from her post on President Donald Trump's second day in office, received further marching orders this week when she was given an eviction notice that gave her three hours to leave the government-owned home where she was living.
Sources familiar with the order said Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of the military, was not given enough time to pack her personal belongings, NBC News reported Thursday.
The eviction order came Tuesday that Fagan had to leave the home at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., where she continued to live two weeks after Trump's order to fire her.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard, reportedly said she was fired because of an "excessive focus" on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the service, as well as issues concerning border security.
Fagan was made commandant in 2022 and reportedly learned that she was being dismissed while she was waiting in line at an inaugural ball for a photo with the new president.
But one of her allies said that being evicted with such short notice was yet another insult.
"It's petty and it's personal," the ally told NBC News.
A DHS official, though, said it makes sense for her to be evicted from the base housing.
"She was terminated with cause two weeks ago today, and she was still living in those admiral quarters," the official, who NBC did not name, commented while confirming that the admiral was told to leave.
The official, though, would not confirm or deny whether Fagan had been given only three hours.
Coast Guard leaders had given Fagan 60 days to find a new place to live, according to one of NBC's sources.
But on Tuesday, DHS officials told Adm. Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard's acting commandant, that he had to make her leave the housing because "the president wants her out of quarters."
NBC's source at DHS would not confirm if the order to make Fagan leave came directly from Trump or if his name had been invoked to make her leave.
Lunday informed Fagan at 2 p.m. Tuesday that she had until 5 p.m. that day to leave.
Her team then got a call from aides for DHS senior adviser Sean Plankey, a retired Coast Guard commander, telling her that she must leave the house unlocked so that photographs could be taken of its interior.
Fagan told another Coast Guard official that she did not "authorize them to come into my house whether I'm there or not."
Lunday reportedly relayed her message to Plankey's team, stating that an attempt to access the house would result in trespassing, a source told NBC.
But she did leave "with many — maybe all — of her personal items and household goods still there," a former U.S. military official said.
Fagan spent the night with friends, and U.S. Transportation Command is responsible for moving her personal items out of the house, according to sources.
The DHS official, meanwhile, said she was "given a different place to stay. We're still providing her housing."
There was no indication of what type of housing Fagan was given, and a source said that an alternative hadn't been offered to her as part of the eviction order.
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