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On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
--is absolutely absurd, that there are too many Democrats. So I guess we are going to shut down any Agencies that have 50 percent plus 1 Democratic affiliation, and we are going to hold on to Agencies in which the employees are 50 percent plus 1 Republican. It shouldn't matter. I don't care whether a Republican or a Democrat is teaching my kid. I don't care whether a Republican or Democrat is staffing the domestic violence shelter or putting out the fire at my neighbor's home. And most Americans don't care. But this war that has been waged--I mean, that is what ``woke'' means, right? ``Woke'' really just means that a service is being provided by somebody who has views or a lifestyle that I don't agree with. We have never approached public service like that. We have decided as a country that we are going to have these people called civil servants who get up every day to serve the country no matter what their background is, their ethnicity, their race, or their political views, or their religion; that their reason for getting up in the morning and going to work is to just serve everybody--to serve everybody. We are now retreating to this world in which, no, the only legitimate people to work for the Federal Government are people who share the political views of the President. The purge is happening in so many different ways.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut
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Feb 5, 2025

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