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<\/p>\nFox News anchor Kayleigh McEnany pointed to a 2017 Washington Post article about bureaucratic resistance to President Donald Trump during his first term after Marie Harf, a former official in the Obama administration, complained on Monday about the firing of government workers.<\/p>\n
Trump\u00a0created\u00a0the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by renaming the United States Digital Service in an executive order on January 20. He also gave the commission more duties. As a result, some federal agencies are letting go of employees.<\/p>\n
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During the \u201cOutnumbered\u201d discussion, McEnany brought up\u00a0reports\u00a0that some federal government workers were trying to stay \u201cout of spite\u201d so they could wait for Trump\u2019s term to end.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think that federal employees fall into three buckets, you have the political appointees, some of whom are thrilled that this is happening, they see this as a revolution in government. Then you have this other pot of hardworking federal government employees, I think they don\u2019t care who the president is, I think they care deeply about their job and that pot does exist, but that is not all federal workers,\u201d McEnany said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are federal workers that have this attitude, this was an NBC anonymous communication that came to them, I saw this a few weeks ago, a federal employee at the Department of Veterans affairs, \u2018A lot of us are going to stay out of spite,\u2019 they said. \u2018We\u2019re here for however long we want to be here. I could be here until retirement in 30 years, the Trump Administration is only here for four.\u2019 What\u2019s wrong with trying to root out and employees staying out of spite?\u201d McEnany continued.<\/p>\n
Harf replied that the firings were not legal and went on to criticize DOGE for \u201cattacks on public servants\u201d for almost two minutes. Friday, a federal judge let layoffs at the US Agency for International Development happen, even though two unions that represent agency workers had sued.<\/p>\n
\u201cDOGE isn\u2019t managing these people and at the same time, people across the country can\u2019t pay their mortgages or put food on the table for their kids because they got fired from a job they thought had job security. That is not electorally or morally a good plan, I think, for Republicans,\u201d Harf said.<\/p>\n
After some back and forth, McEnany brought up the 2017 Washington Post article about Trump\u2019s first-term bureaucrats who fought against his policies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s easy to oversimplify and point to some stories of individuals who got termination notices, but the background is this: This is not a Republican newspaper, conservative newspaper, this is \u2018the Washington Post\u2019\u2026 years ago: \u2018Resistance From Within The Federal Government,\u2019\u201d McEnany said.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen to this, less than two weeks into the Trump Administration, federal workers are in regular consultation with recently-departed Obama-era political appointees about what they can do to push back against the new president\u2019s initiatives. There was even a support group that took place about how to resist the Trump Administration. That should not happen. That is undermining the will of the American people,\u201d McEnany added.<\/p>\n
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