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President Trump continues to retaliate against federal law enforcement officials involved in investigating and prosecuting crimes related to January 6th.

DOJ leadership has fired several federal prosecutors and FBI heads, and more firings may be coming soon.

Trump is also trying to downsize the federal workforce

by offering deferred resignation to millions of civil servants.

And last week, chaos ensued across the federal government

when the Office of Management and Budget

issued a memo freezing federal funds for many grants and loans.

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Now on to the show.

Can we talk in more detail about this questionnaire thing?

It's kind of astonishing, right?

So it's not enough to pardon all the January 6th offenders and or commute their sentences, including people who engaged in documented, videographed violence against police officers and capital officers,

in spite of the fact that the two most relevant nominees, Cash Patel to FBI director and Pam Bondi to Attorney General,

have said themselves that they don't believe that people who engaged in violence against police officers should be let off the hook.

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