The firings encompassed four staffers who were fired overnight, after the meeting, and two who were removed over the weekend. It created the extraordinary situation where Loomer appeared to have more influence than the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, over the NSC and undercut Waltz in having aides axed under him.
Loomer brought a booklet of papers laying out the perceived disloyalty of about a dozen staffers, including Waltz’s principal deputy, Alex Wong, to the meeting, which was also attended by JD Vance, the chief of staff Susie Wiles, the commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Waltz himself.
The fired officials included Brian Walsh, the senior director for intelligence who previously worked for now secretary of state Marco Rubio on the Senate intelligence committee; Thomas Boodry, the senior director for legislative affairs who previously served as Waltz’s legislative director in Congress; and Maggie Dougherty, the senior director for international organizations, the people said.
how do the federal workers put up with this
What are you asking? If you get fired, you go find a different job or go on strike.
The US needs to add long-term contracts to all jobs so this shit can’t happen again, but most Americans don’t seem to realize how US labor law is shit.
americans are intentionally kept in the dark about how shit us labor law is
Not really. We know most other countries have PTO and vacation minimums. We’re just told that workers in other countries are lazy and incompetent.
Michigan just passed a new law requiring everyone working for a company with more that 50 employees to give their workers 72 hours of sick time per year. Someone I work with said (paraphrasing) “why do I want that, they’ll just take it out of my vacation time.”
No, they won’t. Not unless you let them. But, in a nonunion workplace there’s no real protection. We have to band together and tell the company they’re not allowed to take our vacation time. Then I’m stuck listening to how bad unions are by someone who’s never been in a union.
We know about all this other stuff, we’ve just been lied to about it our entire lives.
Need a full strike