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Yassamin Ansari: “Federal employees were being asked to change their away…”

Featuring: Yassamin Ansari, Democratic | U.S. House Arizona, District 3

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Rep. Yassamin Ansari on Trump's Layoffs and No Kings Protests

Published | Video Starts at 05:27

And that we will hear from. We've heard from some when it comes to the Hatch act, for example, like last week in particular, you know, Federal employees were being asked to change their away messages to say that the radical left has shut down the government. So we had federal employees reach out to us about that. And that's where we're working with a lot of labor unions to be able to give really sound legal … (05:27–05:41)

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Asserts that federal employees were instructed to blame the government shutdown on the radical left.

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