Federal employees from nearly two dozen US government agencies will walk off their jobs on Tuesday in protest of President Biden’s full-throated support for Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, Al-Monitor reported on Friday.
The Biden administration has faced significant internal dissent over the Israeli slaughter in Gaza, which has killed nearly 24,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Officials from across government agencies have signed letters protesting the US support for Israel, but a walkout will be the most dramatic step yet, besides the two resignations from administration officials.
Dozens of US officials are organizing the walkout as a group calling itself Feds United for Peace. They expect hundreds of other federal employees to join them on Tuesday.
Al-Monitor obtained a list of some of the agencies where employees are expected to participate in the protest, which includes the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Agency, the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs, and more.
In light of the Al-Monitor Report, House Republicans are calling for any employees who participate in the protest to be fired. “Any government worker who walks off the job to protest US support for our ally Israel is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to Axios. “They deserve to be fired.”
President Biden is also facing dissent from within his re-election campaign as his backing of Israel’s mass killing of Palestinians is hurting his chances of winning another term. Seventeen Biden campaign staffers said in a letter protesting his support for Israel that they’ve seen “volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever, because of this conflict.”
Admirable as this is, a better option might be to show up for work, but accomplish nothing. So pretty much do the same as the US Congress does for the average American.
“a better option might be to show up for work, but accomplish nothing.” Except, they’re already doing exactly that.
I worry about the ones that are accomplishing something.
FJB and his POS handler obama.
Yeah, my opinion of Obama keeps sliding down that slippery slope. Just another dirtbag errand boy for the MIC and its political arm, the PNAC.
PNAC folded a long time ago as an organization. “Replaced” by Foreign Policy Initiative, which has also folded in 2017. Now there’s (still) the American Enterprise Institute, and the repulsive Robert Kagan’s Brookings Institution. Kagan is married to the equally vile Toria Nuland.
Reset and reboot. Start by writing in friends in November. Then decide where to put a new capitol;
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A new capitol? My friend, you have one in your state capitol already! As do we all. That’s more than enough “leadership” for anyone.
Now, it’s really the time for a third crucial political party in US…!
USA jobs is full of people waiting/looking for employment and these fellas may end up being replaced if that action is found in violation of US Federal Employment Laws.
They are not just “fellas”, and people with a conscience are desirable.
Excellent pro peace action, excellent!
Sounds potentially like the beginning of something House Republicans repeatedly fail to do: shut down the federal government. Why just tomorrow? Why not until US support for and complicity in the slaughters stops?
Another reason I will never vote for a Republican .. unadulterated subservience to Israel ..
In light of the Al-Monitor Report, House Republicans are calling for any employees who participate in the protest to be fired. “Any government worker who walks off the job to protest US support for our ally Israel is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to Axios. “They deserve to be fired.”
Political freedom? Freedom of speech? Nah. Not here in the home of Democracy’s beacon!
Should read “Any government worker who walks off their job to protest U.S. support for our masters in Israel are ignoring their responsibility to abuse the U.S. taxpayers”.
So when your social security monies get lost,who will you call? When your local police are corrupted or overwhelmed,who will you call?
Trump would fired them.
Trump serves Israel first and foremost. He’s the best president Israel has ever had.
” is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers,”
The ones abusing the trust of taxpayers are the Reps by supporting and financing a genocide with taxpayer’s funds. Israel might be our ally but that does not excuse genocide unless we agree with genocide.
It is interesting to note that most Reps are against abortion; however they are for genocide.
You’re either with us or enemy of us…! What a crock of crap from ranter mike johnson…?!
If they pull this same protestes with Trump as the President they will all get fired. But they will not because of fear the Trump instills in his workers.