A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration’s continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their Social Security number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment — presumably with the password needed to view the file included in the body of the email.
The homepage of cisa.gov as it appeared on Monday and Tuesday afternoon.
On March 13, a Maryland district court judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate more than 130 probationary CISA employees who were fired last month. On Monday, the administration announced that those dismissed employees would be reinstated but placed on paid administrative leave. They are among nearly 25,000 fired federal workers who are in the process of being rehired.
A notice covering the CISA homepage said the administration is making every effort to contact those who were unlawfully fired in mid-February.
“Please provide a password protected attachment that provides your full name, your dates of employment (including date of termination), and one other identifying factor such as date of birth or social security number,” the message reads. “Please, to the extent that it is available, attach any termination notice.”
The message didn’t specify how affected CISA employees should share the password for any attached files, so the implicit expectation is that employees should just include the plaintext password in their message.
Email is about as secure as a postcard sent through the mail, because anyone who manages to intercept the missive anywhere along its path of delivery can likely read it. In security terms, that’s the equivalent of encrypting sensitive data while also attaching the secret key needed to view the information.
What’s more, a great many antivirus and security scanners have trouble inspecting password-protected files, meaning the administration’s instructions are likely to increase the risk that malware submitted by cybercriminals could be accepted and opened by U.S. government employees.
The message in the screenshot above was removed from the CISA homepage Tuesday evening and replaced with a much shorter notice directing former CISA employees to contact a specific email address. But a slightly different version of the same message originally posted to CISA’s website still exists at the website for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which likewise instructs those fired employees who wish to be rehired and put on leave to send a password-protected email attachment with sensitive personal data.
A message from the White House to fired federal employees at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services instructs recipients to email personal information in a password-protected attachment.
This is hardly the first example of the administration discarding Security 101 practices in the name of expediency. Last month, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sent an unencrypted email to the White House with the first names and first letter of the last names of recently hired CIA officers who might be easy to fire.
As cybersecurity journalist Shane Harris noted in The Atlantic, even those fragments of information could be useful to foreign spies.
“Over the weekend, a former senior CIA official showed me the steps by which a foreign adversary who knew only his first name and last initial could have managed to identify him from the single line of the congressional record where his full name was published more than 20 years ago, when he became a member of the Foreign Service,” Harris wrote. “The former official was undercover at the time as a State Department employee. If a foreign government had known even part of his name from a list of confirmed CIA officers, his cover would have been blown.”
The White House has also fired at least 100 intelligence staffers from the National Security Agency (NSA), reportedly for using an internal NSA chat tool to discuss their personal lives and politics. Testifying before the House Select Committee on the Communist Party earlier this month, the NSA’s former top cybersecurity official said the Trump administration’s attempts to mass fire probationary federal employees will be “devastating” to U.S. cybersecurity operations.
Rob Joyce, who spent 34 years at the NSA, told Congress how important those employees are in sustaining an aggressive stance against China in cyberspace.
“At my former agency, remarkable technical talent was recruited into developmental programs that provided intensive unique training and hands-on experience to cultivate vital skills,” Joyce told the panel. “Eliminating probationary employees will destroy a pipeline of top talent responsible for hunting and eradicating [Chinese] threats.”
Both the message to fired CISA workers and DOGE’s ongoing efforts to bypass vetted government networks for a faster Wi-Fi signal are emblematic of this administration’s overall approach to even basic security measures: To go around them, or just pretend they don’t exist for a good reason.
On Monday, The New York Times reported that U.S. Secret Service agents at the White House were briefly on alert last month when a trusted captain of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) visited the roof of the Eisenhower building inside the White House compound — to see about setting up a dish to receive satellite Internet access directly from Musk’s Starlink service.
The White House press secretary told The Times that Starlink had “donated” the service and that the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office. The White House claims the service is necessary because its wireless network is too slow.
Jake Williams, vice president for research and development at the cybersecurity consulting firm Hunter Strategy, told The Times “it’s super rare” to install Starlink or another internet provider as a replacement for existing government infrastructure that has been vetted and secured.
“I can’t think of a time that I have heard of that,” Williams said. “It introduces another attack point,” Williams said. “But why introduce that risk?”
Meanwhile, NBC News reported on March 7 that Starlink is expanding its footprint across the federal government.
“Multiple federal agencies are exploring the idea of adopting SpaceX’s Starlink for internet access — and at least one agency, the General Services Administration (GSA), has done so at the request of Musk’s staff, according to someone who worked at the GSA last month and is familiar with its network operations — despite a vow by Musk and Trump to slash the overall federal budget,” NBC wrote.
The longtime Musk employee who encountered the Secret Service on the roof in the White House complex was Christopher Stanley, the 33-year-old senior director for security engineering at X and principal security engineer at SpaceX.
On Monday, Bloomberg broke the news that Stanley had been tapped for a seat on the board of directors at the mortgage giant Fannie Mae. Stanley was added to the board alongside newly confirmed Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte, the grandson of the late housing businessman and founder of PulteGroup — William J. Pulte.
In a nod to his new board role atop an agency that helps drive the nation’s $12 trillion mortgage market, Stanley retweeted a Bloomberg story about the hire with a smiley emoji and the comment “Tech Support.”
But earlier today, Bloomberg reported that Stanley had abruptly resigned from the Fannie board, and that details about the reason for his quick departure weren’t immediately clear. As first reported here last month, Stanley had a brush with celebrity on Twitter in 2015 when he leaked the user database for the DDoS-for-hire service LizardStresser, and soon faced threats of physical violence against his family.
My 2015 story on that leak did not name Stanley, but he exposed himself as the source by posting a video about it on his Youtube channel. A review of domain names registered by Stanley shows he went by the nickname “enKrypt,” and was the former owner of a pirated software and hacking forum called error33[.]net, as well as theC0re, a video game cheating community.
Stanley is one of more than 50 DOGE workers, mostly young men and women who have worked with one or more of Musk’s companies. The Trump administration remains dogged by questions about how many — if any — of the DOGE workers were put through the gauntlet of a thorough security background investigation before being given access to such sensitive government databases.
That’s largely because in one of his first executive actions after being sworn in for a second term on Jan. 20, President Trump declared that the security clearance process was simply too onerous and time-consuming, and that anyone so designated by the White House counsel would have full top secret/sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI) clearances for up to six months. Translation: We accepted the risk, so TAH-DAH! No risk!
Presumably, this is the same counsel who saw no ethical concerns with Musk “donating” Starlink to the White House, or with President Trump summoning the media to film him hawking Cybertrucks and Teslas (a.k.a. “Teslers”) on the White House lawn last week.
Mr. Musk’s unelected role as head of an ad hoc executive entity that is gleefully firing federal workers and feeding federal agencies into “the wood chipper” has seen his Tesla stock price plunge in recent weeks, while firebombings and other vandalism attacks on property carrying the Tesla logo are cropping up across the U.S. and overseas and driving down Tesla sales.
President Trump and his attorney general Pam Bondi have dubiously asserted that those responsible for attacks on Tesla dealerships are committing “domestic terrorism,” and that vandals will be prosecuted accordingly. But it’s not clear this administration would recognize a real domestic security threat if it was ensconced squarely behind the Resolute Desk.
Or at the pinnacle of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Washington Post reported last month that Trump’s new FBI director Kash Patel was paid $25,000 last year by a film company owned by a dual U.S. Russian citizen that has made programs promoting “deep state” conspiracy theories pushed by the Kremlin.
“The resulting six-part documentary appeared on Tucker Carlson’s online network, itself a reliable conduit for Kremlin propaganda,” The Post reported. “In the film, Patel made his now infamous pledge to shut down the FBI’s headquarters in Washington and ‘open it up as a museum to the deep state.'”
When the head of the FBI is promising to turn his own agency headquarters into a mocking public exhibit on the U.S. National Mall, it may seem silly to fuss over the White House’s clumsy and insulting instructions to former employees they unlawfully fired.
Indeed, one consistent feedback I’ve heard from a subset of readers here is something to this effect: “I used to like reading your stuff more when you weren’t writing about politics all the time.”
My response to that is: “Yeah, me too.” It’s not that I’m suddenly interested in writing about political matters; it’s that various actions by this administration keep intruding on my areas of coverage.
A less charitable interpretation of that reader comment is that anyone still giving such feedback is either dangerously uninformed, being disingenuous, or just doesn’t want to keep being reminded that they’re on the side of the villains, despite all the evidence showing it.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution unambiguously states that the president shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. But almost from Day One of his second term, Mr. Trump has been acting in violation of his sworn duty as president by choosing not to enforce laws passed by Congress (TikTok ban, anyone?), by freezing funds already allocated by Congress, and most recently by flouting a federal court order while simultaneously calling for the impeachment of the judge who issued it. Sworn to uphold, protect and defend The Constitution, President Trump appears to be creating new constitutional challenges with almost each passing day.
When Mr. Trump was voted out of office in November 2020, he turned to baseless claims of widespread “election fraud” to explain his loss — with deadly and long-lasting consequences. This time around, the rallying cry of DOGE and White House is “government fraud,” which gives the administration a certain amount of cover for its actions among a base of voters that has long sought to shrink the size and cost of government.
In reality, “government fraud” has become a term of derision and public scorn applied to anything or anyone the current administration doesn’t like. If DOGE and the White House were truly interested in trimming government waste, fraud and abuse, they could scarcely do better than consult the inspectors general fighting it at various federal agencies.
After all, the inspectors general likely know exactly where a great deal of the federal government’s fiscal skeletons are buried. Instead, Mr. Trump fired at least 17 inspectors general, leaving the government without critical oversight of agency activities. That action is unlikely to stem government fraud; if anything, it will only encourage such activity.
As Techdirt founder Mike Masnick noted in a recent column “Why Techdirt is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like it or Not),” when the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore: It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.
“This is why tech journalism’s perspective is so crucial right now,” Masnick wrote. “We’ve spent decades documenting how technology and entrepreneurship can either strengthen or undermine democratic institutions. We understand the dangers of concentrated power in the digital age. And we’ve watched in real-time as tech leaders who once championed innovation and openness now actively work to consolidate control and dismantle the very systems that enabled their success.”
“But right now, the story that matters most is how the dismantling of American institutions threatens everything else we cover,” Masnick continued. “When the fundamental structures that enable innovation, protect civil liberties, and foster open dialogue are under attack, every other tech policy story becomes secondary.”
DOGE to newly fired employees: send nudes
Hate is a strong word, parents tell the kids to not use it, but I hate Trump, Trump voters, too stupid to realize Trump has been a Russian asset for decades, I still don’t know if there was cheating in the last election even though I’m science minded. Incels are what the Doge team is made up of. The Social Security mess, closing offices, long weights for phone calls, let alone office visits, all because dark money has ruined this country. I can forgive a lot, a person has to, but I will never forgive Trump the Trump voters and people that stayed home and did not vote. And I have let the Democrats know what I think they did wrong and they better shape up.
Wow, You need help. I’m not a fan of either side, but you are taking it to a new level. Don’t go through life feeling like this, no one should make you feel this way.
Please get help
You’re too stupid to realize our enemies are not in Russia. Probably watched to many hollywood movies? Our enemies are within us, globalists who profit from conflicts.
Failing Security 101, indeed. It’s hard to belief that anyone with the authority to put out those directives would be so naive that they wouldn’t be aware of the security risk. Thank you for staying on top of this and keeping us informed, Brian. Your work is invaluable.
Thank you for calling attention to these concerns, Brian. However, not all of your readers questioning your rather vitriolic takes on the Trump administration (takes that often go beyond the realm of cybersecurity) are “on the side of the villains”. For instance, the article about Elon’s cousin’s ex-wife who is Russian felt like grasping at straws and very uncharacteristic of the high-quality, fact-based, non-speculative work you typically produce. We are all here for insights we don’t find anywhere else, and we don’t want to see you descend into a Seth Abramson-type figure that inserts conspiracy, speculation, and venom into every writing. Believe it or not, we aren’t here to “hate read” your DOGE articles; we just want you to apply to same level head to the topic that you do everything else. Politics is always divisive, and it is critical that you do not let it shade your work in a way that makes readers question your biases. Please don’t hate your readers that are both confused and concerned about the change in tone here. Keep up the great work.
I don’t see it as a change in tone to highlight security concerns that normally would warrant an in-depth background check
“Politics is always divisive” though usually in a single political system everyone agrees to certain norms…
I Completely agree with you NPC. Please Brian.. we are NOT here for political rhetoric. This article (as well as other recent’s) have gone the way of MSM and are teetering on opinion and bias. I’m shocked to see you aren’t above this.
It’s unfortunate that factual reporting is now viewed as “vitriolic takes on the [Apricot Emperor’s] administration.” It’s also interesting that you’d portray Brian’s article about Musk’s employee, Brandon Spikes, as concerning (instead) “Elon’s cousin’s ex-wife who is Russian.”
For those who haven’t read it, the article is here: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is-the-doge-and-x-technician-branden-spikes/
The cousin’s Russian ex-wife is incidental to the story, which is about a Musk operative, Spikes. Mention of her only serves to fill out the connection between the two men, but since one works directly for the other, she doesn’t actually figure into the story beyond just that mention.
So I see what you did there, trying to make it seem as if Brian had been sent off-track, irrationally, by what you probably call “TDS.” But in the process you missed the point entirely.
As I said, it’s reached the point where reporting on anything, no matter how factual it may be, is reflexively dismissed, and even harangued against, if it portrays the Apricot Emperor (or Musk, or any of the rest of his slavering sycophants) even in a slightly-less-than-totally-flattering way. The cold fact is that the world is not what any of us wish it to be; instead, it is what it is (as Bill Belichick loved to remind everyone). Dismissing journalism as irrational, solely because it doesn’t fit the Apricot Emperor’s narrative or makes him look bad, is itself irrational. And it needs to stop already.
The Apricot Emperor is a big boy and should be able to handle critical press — but he can’t. The same is true of Musk, who also can’t handle critical press. But it’s not the job of the press to coddle them and make them feel better about themselves. Maybe they need to run to their mommies, get burped, fed, and have their diapers changed?
I will not or cannot say that NPC and Jason are sockpuppets of the St. Petersburg garden variety,
but I do get a strong whiff of troll at the very least. They like to do a one, two punch of the first one making
the outrageous slander, and the 2nd one supporting the first one. SOP or their stock in trade.
On a brighter note, I would like to recommend listening to the standup routines of Bill Burr who
has had some hilarious things to say about Musk and crew. It seems Elon did not appreciate
the humorous criticisms Burr leveled at him, so Elon throttled Burr’s twitter account. Burr
was highly amused by that. Sadly, this is where we are at, folks.
My ex-Navy Seal nephew wrote an interesting piece on his substack to the effect that war
is now being waged 24/7 ubiquitously across all information spaces. I think it’s evident that
we are in a free for all battle for hearts and minds, with the added fact of assigned provocateurs
who seek to muddy the waters, add discord and upset whenever possible, and generally try to
keep the pot boiling. Vexatious people are to be avoided, especially when they cannot add any
thing positive to the conversation. Thank you Psicop for your choice remarks, and thank you, Brian
for shining your formidable spotlight on these issues. Of course that is why you have been targeted,
( by these random or professional scumbags making innuendos and sly jabs, shame on them- forgive
them Lord, for they know not what they do)
I would say that NPC and Jason definitely have Putin’s hand shoved up there ass.
Well, at least he’s being transparent: NPC = non-player character, i.e. a bot.
I am definitely not a bot, but I’m glad you read my comment, Brian. I am a long-time reader, and I am no fan of Russia, Elon, or the current chaos. However, I am a fan of fact-based, solid journalism that isn’t shaded by emotion or vendetta, which is what I am used to reading from you. Please don’t let that change.
Thanks. But if you think this post is “shaded by emotion or vendetta,” I don’t know to tell you, other than clearly some of the facts in the story are making you uncomfortable with your current position. Maybe examine the reason for that unease a little more deeply, if you dare.
Thanks, Brian. I have friends and colleagues all over the political spectrum, and I read a wide range of views. I always appreciate more information, and I want this to be a place that fosters healthy and respectful discussion no matter one’s political affiliations. When it comes to the safety of our technological landscape, we’re on the same side. Take care.
Show me on the doll where the Apricot Emperor touched you. Also, get psychiatric help.
100% — Well said NPC.
Thanks for speaking up, Brian.
I’m a former Republican voter who was appalled by Jan 6th and can’t believe more people aren’t acknowledging the obvious. I’m with the Liz Cheneys and Adam Kinzingers of the world, those who can recognize when something is bad for the country regardless of party and call it out.
The way one votes should not be seen as a religion or “side”, merely an endorsement of a given candidate or their policies.
I wish folks would get their news from more diverse sources, and hopefully not social media.
Disappointed there isn’t more pushback in government against this.
Another Republican here. Thank you for those comments! I wish more Republicans would speak out against what is going on. Just because I’m a Republican doesn’t mean that I agree with everything that a Republican president does. And I am certainly not in agreement with all of this. So thank you for your comment!
I fully agree with you Michael.
One issue, I think, is that most people confuse Trump’s Right Wing with Conservatism. They aren’t the same thing at all. Trump and his Right Wing are radicals who want to destroy everything they can. In that sense Trump and his Right Wing are very little different from the Left Wing who they pretend to hate.
Conservatism is about preserving the great Institutions of life, not destroying them. The most noted of these great institutions are church, business, and government. To a Conservative, changes do need to be made, but we should make them slowly and with deliberation in order to make those changes without destroying the institutions.
There is nothing Conservative about Trump and Musk and their cults.
“I’m with the Liz Cheneys and Adam Kinzingers of the world”
aka “I’m a paid shill, ORANGE MAN BAD!”
So you *don’t* have anything original or informative to add. Got it. Now please shut up.
I am sad for what is happening to our fellow Americans. When I see footage from those that are making these decisions, I see no empathy, I see a glint in the eye of someone who enjoys inflicting pain and chopping people off at the knees. May God bless America and may those that have power in this country band together to limit if not prevent the carnage that is happening.
Trump is very good at presenting an image of himself as a figure of overwhelming force. He honed that on “The Apprentice” and Americans are primed to think of him that way. You must remember this:
Trump has no ethics, no morals, no conscience, and no integrity. But the real problem? His followers couldn’t care less.
The idiocy of DOGE employees, at Musk’s instructions I am sure, reminds me of the bull in a china shop metaphor.
No attention whatsoever to security or to privacy issues, and complete disrespect for laws governing access to the many databases they barged their way into.
I am appalled–and not the least bits urprised.
Many of us have spent a good chunk of our working lives trying to cyber protect organizations that we work for. To see our country’s most important departments being completely compromised by people whom I think most of us know are working for a foreign nation makes me sad and angry. I will remain optimistic that average men and women in these agencies will stand firm and bring these bad actors and their actions to a halt. Hoping enough of the people that used to support this admin will raise their voice and demand it to stop.
I applaud you for being brave enough to speak up and shine a light on this, Brian.
I also fear that Trump & Co will come to burn this blog down 🙁
You have my support, for what its worth
So!
The “Department of Government Efficiency” fires a bunch of employees who were presumably doing work for the U.S. government. The fired employees are then rehired but put on PAID administrative leave, where, presumably, NO work is getting done.
Incompetence doesn’t begin to describe this administration. That they have access to our PII isn’t helping me sleep at night.
Many thanks for a very insightful, scary report.
Great article, Brian! Please continue to keep us informed. This is probably the best article I’ve read yet on all of the atrocities that are going on right now in the federal government. Thank you for bringing this all to light and thank you for not making it political. It’s made political by so many people but in reality this is just total chaos and has nothing to do with the politics of who is in charge. These are things that we have never seen before and I don’t think anyone could have been prepared for something like this. Please keep up the good work!
“A less charitable interpretation of that reader comment is that anyone still giving such feedback is either dangerously uninformed, being disingenuous, or just doesn’t want to keep being reminded that they’re on the side of the villains, despite all the evidence showing it.”
No, we just don’t care about US politics.
Keep posting your usual interesting stuff instead
I also don’t really care about politics. But when any administration ignores good cyber hygiene, it’s a significant concern to me. I work with Treasury, CISA and FBI on Cyber Threats to our Financial Institution (FI) on a regular basis, but my liaisons to these (and other) agencies are not able to react as comprehensively as they used to due to cuts. I worry about the increasing critical risks to utilities, infrastructure and finance. Unfortunately, there isn’t much I can do about the decline or loss of extensive threat analysis.
It’s a test…
The staffers who would comply with the “bone head” request would obviously not be up to snuff and shouldn’t be re-engaged anywhere…
Mind boggling how disorganized the whole Trump administration is. How about Starlink being placed all over the White House??? The Russians are all over this. God help us.
At this point I’m sure pootin has unrestricted access to most of the U.S. internal documents via one of the Trump appointees. So the game has been lost when a good chunk of the U.S. population voted for the orange baboon.
PER AI: This discussion reflects a blend of security concerns, partisan anger, and distrust in government institutions. The comments showcase intense emotions, with a dominant anti-Trump sentiment, but also some pushback against the politicization of cybersecurity issues. It’s clear that this article (and the broader conversation) resonates strongly with a politically engaged audience, but also risks alienating readers who want a more neutral perspective on cybersecurity events.
The orange clown should be impeached. Every. Single. Day. Again.
“But earlier today, Bloomberg reported that Stanley had abruptly resigned from the Fannie board…”
I read this bit as a Brit, because I take my humor where I can get it these days.
But as a Brit, you will know about “the will of the people”; the US voted for this clown twice – the second time after he had been convicted in numerous courts.
They brought this chaos on themselves. It is sad to see a once reasonably great country being corroded from the centre – it will take several election cycles to repair the damage.
In respect of the opening up of US Cyber-security, I just hope other former allies have insulated their systems from being penetrated or left open by these clowns.
(Definitely relevant story BTW)
And I’ve heard this from Brits before.
It’s an overly simplistic view of US electoral politics, to be sure… but not wholly incorrect.
“Dubiously” called firebombing Tesla dealerships domestic terrorism? Really? And why are they firebombing Tesla dealerships? Maybe to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy or conduct of a government? Are you aware of the legal definition of domestic terrorism? Here it is:
“The federal government defines domestic terrorism (DT) as ideologically driven crimes committed by individuals in the United States that are intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy or conduct of a government.”
Interesting. That’s where letting your politics into your writing too much causes problems. What’s next? Are you going to refer to the attacks on Tesla dealerships and vehicles as “mostly peaceful boycotts”? C’mon. The rest of this article is exactly what we need – facts about what’s actually happening. We need to know about the dangers Trump and DOGE are steering the country into. You make your argument less convincing when you do things like tenuously linking Elon to Russia via some ex wife of one of his employees or when you pretend that people who commit violent acts aren’t really doing anything wrong simply because they happen to sit on the same side of the aisle as you do (or that their wrongs are somehow less bad).
It should be obvious to most that some bad stuff is happening. We need people who can articulate those things in a way others will actually ingest.
Brian – please keep reporting on the facts and the truth. Donald and the maga crowd hate facts. it contradicts their lies and all other narratives.
Thank you !
Lmaoooooo
Oh yes, because until “orange man” came along, there were ZERO cyber security hacks, or threats in our federal government. No federal employees stealing/selling personal information of millions of Americans right? Pfft
What kind of cartoon blog is this?? Come on kiddies, let’s drink some more Kool aid shall we??
For readers concerned about political rhetoric in some of Brian’s recent columns, take a step back and ask yourself why are cybersecurity protections being relaxed? Why is DOGE being permitted to hoover up all information the USG has about it’s citizens? Why do they need it? What could they do with it? Beyond politics, I can think of a pretty scary answer. Can you?
To add to Bob’s statement above: Why on Earth would a tech billionaire sleep on the floor to root out corruption and waste? Other than the “patriotism schtick,” it doesn’t really add up. I will be most relieved when Trump is out of office, so we can return to the high-interest debt and routine agency hackings. Hang in there!
Brian, I want to thank you for speaking out. I’m looking for more of that from our leaders, your article was fact-based and I hope it causes some people to wake up. They are lying to us in order to fleece us.
Keep fighting the good fight Brian … True patriots like you and those around you are encouraging beacons of light and hope in an otherwise darkening democracy. May the light of liberty shine in our hearts and in America always … cheers to victory!
This may be the first time I’ve seen negative Trump comments in an article of yours. So scary when you think that your colleagues are so gullible. It’s about fucking time! Fuck these assholes trying to burn our country to the ground. Russian traitors, all of them.
Good reporting Brian. Keep up the fight to instill a sense of prudence and professionalism in the federal government.
It’s not stupidity on the part of DOGE. It’s clearly their plan to gather SS numbers.
Sobering report Brian. Thank you for the reporting.