Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia withdrawing after losing GOP support

Some Senate Republicans on Monday indicated the nominee, Paul Ingrassia, would not make it through the Senate.

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump's pick for a top watchdog position, announced Tuesday that he was withdrawing from consideration because he did not have enough Republican support to be confirmed.

"I will be withdrawing myself from Thursday’s HSGAC hearing to lead the Office of Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time," he said, referring to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which would review his nomination.

Trump nominated Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that protects federal employees from prohibited personnel practices, such as retaliation for whistleblowing.

A White House official confirmed to NBC News that Ingrassia is no longer the nominee for the job.

Ingrassia had come under scrutiny in recent weeks after Politico reported that he a colleague had accused him of sexual harassment, citing three unnamed administration officials. In a new article Monday, Politico reported on a text chat in which Ingrassia allegedly sent messages saying that he had a “Nazi streak” and that Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be “tossed in the seventh circle of hell.”