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Library of Congress staff turn away new MAGA bosses
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Why couldn't other agencies do this? Almost none of the DOGE crap that's been done has been legal. So why did anybody listen to them at all?
Library of Congress is not part of the executive branch so constitutionally speaking, they don't have new bosses unless Congress says so.
That being said, I could make the argument that DOGE is not a valid department and that all government employees should have resisted yet here we are.
In many of those cases, the building/department security sided with DOGE and physically forced the government employees to comply. There wasn't much they could do to resist without ending up assaulted and detained having accomplished nothing.
My biggest fear over the next few years is how many people who have chosen a career in "enforcement" are just salivating at the chance to be part of Team Nazi.
In a lot of enforcement industries it is not really a venn diagram, just two circles with just the tiniessssst bit of offset between them.
The people in that tiny sliver either quit or “accidentally” get shot in the back during a raid.
If it’s less than 99% …
I'm guessing librarians know how to read more than many other categories of federal workers.
some agencies have tried to fight back.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/united-states-african-development-foudation-doge-lawsuit/
There was one division that I saw go by that did, and was arrested. I'm guessing that they didn't expect this from librarians.