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And then, if you don’t answer, like, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired, because a lot of people aren’t answering because they don’t even exist,
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Wright said in an email shared with HuffPost Employees currently without email access due to leave, temporary duty, or other valid reasons should submit their response within 48 hours of regaining access.”
There’s a lot of civil servants who are trying in the best ways that they know how to resist what they believe are illegal actions, ... These are not people who are well-skilled in the idea of a resistance movement.”
What I haven’t dealt with so far, and where I think we’re all extremely troubled, is that some of what is happening now appears to any reasonable observer to be blatantly unconstitutional,
By their oath of office, [civil servants] have a responsibility to speak up,
I still think what they’re doing is broadly popular, just that Elon is very off-putting and unpopular,
a senior Senate GOP aide said, I’m not comfortable with the word combat, because it shouldn’t ever be adversarial, right?”
one assistant U.S. attorney said Anyone who thinks protests, lawsuits, and lawfare will deter President Trump must have been sleeping under a rock for the past several years,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement That is definitely something that appears to be happening,
I’ve heard so many people ask: WHY is Donald T. so hell-bent on destroying Federal workers?”
The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector,
I don’t think it sparks a resistance,
They need to share not just what’s happening to them personally, which is important, but what’s happening to the public as a result of the chaotic management that is current now,
The President has made it clear that this is mandatory for the executive branch, ... Anyone working on classified or other sensitive matters is still required to respond if they receive the email, but can simply reply that their work is sensitive."
All federal government departments are cooperating with @DOGE,
You know why he wanted that, by the way? I thought it was great because we have people that don't show up to work and nobody even knows if they work for the government. So by asking the question, 'Tell us what you did this week,' what he's doing is saying, 'Are you actually working?'
Speaking to reporters about the email at the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all! In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud."
Elon Musk wrote on X last week If I could say one thing to Elon Musk, it's like, please put a dose of compassion in this. These are real people. These are real lives. These are mortgages. It's a false narrative to say we have to cut and you have to be cruel to do it as well."
Senator John Curtis, a Utah Republican, said on CBS News' Face the Nation last Sunday I said, 'Can we send out an email to everyone just saying what did you get done last week?' The president said, 'Yes.' So, we did that,
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