Federal Employees ‘Angered’ And ‘Fearful’ At Having To Do What Their Boss Says

Federal employees and their trusted champions in corporate media are incensed by the new administration’s actions directed at them. “Federal employees confused, angered by Trump’s offer to quit,” read a Feb. 1 CNN report. “‘Fear’ and ‘chaos’ grip federal workers as Trump rapidly remakes the government,” declared NBC. “Trump’s revenge targets feds, expands his power and disrupts government,” warned The Washington Post.

Confusion and anger, fear and chaos, disruption across the federal government — how dare the president! Perhaps those among the committed left can muster the appropriate pearl-clutching regarding a legitimately elected president exerting control over an executive branch that falls within his constitutionally defined authority. But for the rest of America, it’s hard to generate much outrage over Trump doing precisely what he said he would do during a 2024 presidential campaign in which he won both the popular vote and the electoral college.