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a CDC official told employees in a message obtained by ABC News
We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,
read an email that went out to FAA workers, as well as those at the CDC and Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, which was obtained by The New York TimesIn my decade-plus years at CDC I've never been told what I can and can't put in my email signature,
said one anonymous worker told the outletThe way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector,
the memo said
You are most welcome stay at home and relax or to travel to your dream destination. Whatever you would like."
Another question about taking extended leave during the resignation period was answeredI saw thousands of federal employees working at the site of a tragic plane crash today. None of them being unproductive."
Another, referring to the deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington on Wednesday night, saidThese are people working in prisons, working on our border, working at our airports,
he told Reuters
It is for this reason that I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated. End of statement.”
And Trump’s statement was reminiscent of Reagan’s 1981 ultimatum to the striking air traffic controllers
That is why, each day, under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength,
he saidA lot of people who work for the federal government do it out of a sense of service,
this person, an Iraq War veteran, said
And so a lot of us are going to stay out of spite,
this person addedThey just seem to be sitting back and sort of keeping their mouth shut, which is also difficult. … I don’t know where the lawyers are,
the USAID official said
The Trump administration’s recent efforts to encourage the bulk of the federal workforce to resign are perplexing, of questionable legality and dangerous, ... Stripping away expert talent through such a nonstrategic approach puts all of us at risk in a profound way.”
Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said, addingI don’t know anybody who’s interested in taking it,
the first USAID official saidEveryone’s trying to just stick it out,
the Forest Service employee saidFor far too long, a bloated federal bureaucracy has cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year while strangling American enterprise and families with burdensome rules and regulations,
Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, said in a statementThere is a little bit of a sense of optimism that this is just the shock stage, and then things will plateau eventually, ... We know that a lot of these mandates coming out are supposed to shock us into submission or try to get us to leave our jobs. That’s the whole point of all this is to shank the government and to take out its workers.”
this person said, addingNobody really has any clue what’s going on.”
A civil servant at the Department of Veterans Affairs described the environment amid Trump’s rapid fire changes as “absolute chaos,” addingThere’s a lot of fear about returning to the office,
this person saidIt is chaos over here right now,
a second USAID official said of the environment at the agency on Monday