Education secretary Betsy DeVos is the second cabinet member to resign.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tendered her resignation in a letter to President Trump on Thursday, saying she would resign on Friday.

“We should recognize and celebrate the many accomplishments of your administration on behalf of the American people,” she wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The New York Times. “Instead, we have to clean up the mess caused by the violent protesters who are invading the United States Capitol in an attempt to undermine the affairs of the people.

“This behavior was unacceptable to our country,” she added. “There is no doubt about the impact of your rhetoric on the situation, and this is the inflection point for me.

Ms. DeVos was one of the first cabinet secretaries to condemn the violent crowd at the Capitol.

“The peaceful transfer of power is what separates American representative democracy from the banana republics,” Ms. DeVos said in a statement. statement posted on Twitter Wednesday evening, a few hours after the capture of the Capitol. “The work of the people must continue.”

Ms DeVos joins a growing exodus of administration officials in the dying days of the Trump administration. She is the second cabinet official to resign; Elaine Chao, the secretary of transport, also resigned Thursday.