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Michelle Bryant: “We're paying federal employees not to work at all this week.”

Featuring: Michelle Bryant, Democratic | Former Candidate, Wisconsin State Senate District 6

SAY SOMETHING REAL WITH MICHELLE BRYANT Feb. 10

Published February 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 1:53:10

Why? Why? Employees told basically to stand down on all work for a week. So We're paying federal employees not to work at all this week. These people don't have the capacity to make assessments, review, investigate a division without shutting the whole division down. And Elon Musk and his little Mary band, the idiots that's following behind him. (1:53:10–1:53:16)

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Asserts that federal employees are being paid not to work for a week.

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