AFGE has launched a new series, Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest, to document chaos, corruption, and efforts to dismantle our democratic institutions by the Trump administration.
Week 6 saw an attack on civil rights and marked an escalation of President Trump’s authoritarian behavior that should alarm every American.
Trump and Elon Musk continued to fire federal workers, demeaning and harming fellow Americans. They told agencies to submit proposals for moving their offices out of Washington, D.C. They either closed civil rights offices or severely cut the programs.
To remove constraints on his power, Trump fired military leaders, including their top lawyers, and replaced them with people loyal to him the week before, prompting five former secretaries of defense to call for congressional hearings over concerns that he would use the military in illegal ways. The administration is also requiring undocumented immigrants to register themselves in a national database. The Holocaust didn’t start with the gas chamber but a series of actions starting with vilifying a certain group of people and creating registries for them.
Meanwhile, Musk’s business empire is built on…
https://www.afge.org/article/chaos-and-corruption-weekly-digest-week-6/