Washington (CNN) A Democratic House member on Tuesday called on Wilbur Ross to resign following a report that the Commerce Secretary threatened to fire top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees over President Donald Trump's false claim that Hurricane Dorian would affect Alabama.

Ross threatened to fire top NOAA employees if the agency didn't disavow a tweet from a regional office that contradicted Trump's claim that Dorian was likely to hit Alabama, The New York Times reported on Monday. A Commerce Department spokesperson has denied the Times' report.

"I think this is just the final straw," Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Tuesday. "This is sort of the final straw of threatening to fire senior NOAA appointees if they didn't stick up with Trump's false claims about Alabama."

Beyer added, "Ross has been a disaster so far," citing controversies over a proposed citizenship question on the 2020 census ethics questions surrounding his financial disclosures and allegations that he participated in insider trading, which he has denied.

Beyer previously called for Ross to resign in the wake of the Times' report on Monday.

According to three people cited in the Times report, Ross called acting NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs and told him to fix the National Weather Service's contradiction of Trump's claim. When Jacobs opposed the demand, Ross told him NOAA's political staff would be fired, the Times reported.

The report also says Ross' threat to fire the employees is what caused NOAA on Friday to disavow a tweet from the National Weather Service's Birmingham, Alabama, office that had contradicted Trump's claim.

Beyer said Tuesday the report is another example of a culture inside the White House that removes longtime civil servants who don't support the administration's political agenda.

"They seem to decide that the best way to get rid of this so-called deep state is ... to fire them," Beyer said. "Federal employees are really under attack from this administration, and this National Weather Service is just the most recent example."