many people think after Elon Musk left his post and is taking shots at the administration that DOGE is over, but that is simply not true. The real architect of DOGE is Russell Vought. Vought is the co-author of Project 2025, the memo that President Trump said he has nothing to do with during the campaign trail. Vought currently heads the Office of Management and Budget and said himself that he wants to traumatize the Federal workforce. He said: `` . . . we want them to not want to go to work . . . We want their funding to be shut down . . . We want to put them in trauma.'' This includes firing hard-to-replace civil servants, scientists, and meteorologists; and intimidating and harassing those who remain in hopes of driving them out of the Federal Government, despite their expertise that we need to keep our country safe and prosperous. Let's be clear. This is not about making government more efficient. In fact, they want to replace many of these jobs with loyalists, even setting up loyalty tests. They are driving a brain drain in our Federal Government by choosing loyalty to the President over merit and competence, creating less efficiency and more waste, fraud, and abuse, and opportunities for corruption. Essentially, we have to stop this. Make no mistake, I will fight this every step of the way.
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Addressing concerns about the impact of Russell Vought's policies on the Federal workforce.
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