Your Government Is Under Attack: EPA Edition
Federal employees — the ones that chose to stick around though mass layoffs — DOGE and voluntary resignation offers, are trying to tell you something: Your government is under attack.
Civil servants are sending out SOS signals at an unprecedented level, despite great personal risk. NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote public protests about damage to their organizations. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leaders chose to quit to send “a bat signal” about the assault on science in their agency, and more than 1000 HHS employees have signed a letter calling on RFK Jr. to resign. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees who wrote an open letter about how bad things are were put on administrative leave.
Now some Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees who did the same were fired. They join the almost 1 in 4 employees who have departed the agency since Trump arrived.
According to the law, these employees have for cause protections, meaning the government must document that they performed poorly at their job to be fired. But laws that are written down, and the practices of the Trump administration, are two different things. And in today’s America, our court system is increasingly favoring the latter.
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