When Trump lackey Russell Vought appeared before the Senate Banking Committee, Sen Angela Alsobrooks was ready for him.
She immediately confronted Vought on his maltreatment of federal workers: “I have been waiting to have the opportunity to come back face to face with you, to ask for an explanation for what I regard as absolutely depraved — depraved — and draconian actions to decimate our public institutions.”
Alsobrooks, who represents 160,000 federal workers, threw Vought’s own words back in his face: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly regarded as the villain.” She called Vought’s actions “evil” and said that his tenure has been “shameful.”
Mealy-mouthed Vought tried to minimize it, saying he was only going after Bureaucrats and not civil servants: “I was referring to bureaucracies and not the career civil servants that do the job. Many of those bureaucracies are weaponized against the American people.”
Alsobrooks countered with reports of his telling agencies to prepare for mass firings, which were later to be deemed illegal by a court of law.