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"DHS Bureaucrat Watchlist" menaces civil servants
WASHINGTON – The American Federation of Government Employees, the nation's largest union representing federal employees, strongly condemns the "DHS Bureaucrat Watchlist" released today by the far-right American Accountability Foundation. The watchlist was created through a grant by the Heritage Foundation, the authors of Project 2025.
This "watchlist" ominously names individual civil servants and includes a tipline to for recommending additions to this list of so-called "subversive bureaucrats."
In response to the publication of the watchlist, AFGE National President Everett Kelley released the following statement.
"Creating watchlists of so-called subversives inside government is a tactic straight out of the McCarthy era, plain in its intent to terrorize individual civil servants and frighten other Americans away from getting involved in politics and public service.
"Far from doing anything to improve government, this shameful, un-American behavior makes it more difficult to attract top talent to important government positions, hurting the entire country in the process."
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