Secret Network of Federal Employees Resists Trump Admin; SCOTUS Rules to Unfreeze USAID Funding
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
An anti-Trump resistance has formed within government agencies. A secret network of federal workers has organized to fight back against the Trump administration. The group is now working to form strategies and share information on encrypted apps. Alongside this, new U.S. intelligence shows that the Chinese regime is attempting to recruit disgruntled U.S. federal employees.
In other news, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Trump’s freeze on some USAID payments will have to go through. The denial of Trump’s attempts to block a lower court order could signal how other legal challenges over money heading to international programs may go.
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| 0:00.0 | An anti-Trump resistance has formed within government agencies. |
| 0:04.0 | A secret network of federal workers has organized to fight back against the administration. |
| 0:10.0 | And in other news, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Trump's freeze on $2 billion in USAID payments. |
| 0:18.0 | And meanwhile, a Canadian official is threatening tariffs on electricity to the United |
| 0:22.7 | States as the trade war heats up. I'm the Epic Times Senior investigative reporter Joshua |
| 0:28.0 | Philip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:35.7 | An anti-Trump resistance has been forming within government agencies. |
| 0:40.3 | They're kind of coming out a little bit. |
| 0:42.3 | But a secret network of federal workers has organized to fight back against the Trump administration. |
| 0:49.3 | The group is now working to form strategies. |
| 0:52.3 | They're also sharing information using encrypted apps. Some of them |
| 0:55.4 | are kind of going public with it. But alongside this, new U.S. intelligence also shows the Chinese |
| 1:03.3 | regime is attempting to recruit disgruntled U.S. federal employees just like this. Now, the Guardian |
| 1:10.6 | said this. After seeing Elon Musk's |
| 1:13.5 | ex post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in their inboxes of 2.3 million |
| 1:19.8 | federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, the humanity. |
| 1:25.9 | It says a clandestine network of employees and contractors |
| 1:29.3 | that dozens of federal agencies began talking on an encrypted app about how to respond. |
| 1:36.4 | They said calling itself hashtag alt-gov, the network has developed a visible public-facing |
| 1:42.8 | presence in recent weeks, though through |
| 1:45.6 | blue sky accounts, most of which bear the names or initials of federal agencies aimed at getting |
| 1:51.8 | information out to the public, meaning they're leaking information and correcting what they call |
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