Anti-Trump Resistance Forms Among Government Employees
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump is now the 47th president of the United States. He has given some previews of his ambitious plans for office, including his 200 Day 1 executive actions. Yet this plan could soon meet with resistance. While the lead-up to the inauguration had been comparably smoother than the 2016 elections, when the nation saw large-scale anti-Trump protests, there’s now talk of how new challenges to Trump’s policies could begin.
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump previewed his plans for office with around 200 executive actions on day one. |
| 0:07.4 | However, this is already facing challenges and an anti-Trump resistance seems to be forming |
| 0:12.8 | mainly among federal government employees, kind of the middle managers. |
| 0:18.7 | And the challenges for Trump's new administration, well, |
| 0:21.4 | they're not just limited to this. Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden also took |
| 0:26.8 | actions to put policies in place that are likely going to stall Trump's plans. And also, |
| 0:33.2 | right before leaving office, Biden declared the creation of the 28th Amendment to the Constitution |
| 0:39.5 | for what he referred to as equal rights. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:53.1 | President Donald Trump, he's the 45th president of the United States. He's also now the 47th president of the United States. |
| 1:02.3 | And he has given some previews of his ambitious plans for office, including, you know, 200 day one actions leading up to all this. |
| 1:09.3 | But this plan could soon meet with resistance. |
| 1:12.2 | In fact, it might already be. |
| 1:13.9 | While the lead up to the inauguration has been pretty smooth, right? |
| 1:17.5 | We didn't really see the mass protests we saw last time. |
| 1:20.4 | We didn't see people going on the streets and wearing their pink hats and marching down |
| 1:24.4 | main street in New York. |
| 1:25.9 | We haven't seen any of that. But there's |
| 1:28.0 | something else now taking place. So a poll recently showed that nearly half of the government |
| 1:36.3 | managers in Washington, D.C., all the government agencies, they are planning to work against |
| 1:42.9 | Donald Trump using their roles. |
| 1:46.3 | Daily Signal said this. |
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