Federal Workers Told To Halt External Communication In First Week Under Trump

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Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― Multiple federal agencies have told their employees to cease communications with members of Congress and the press, sources have told The Huffington Post.

The freeze has startled aides on the Hill and people at those agencies, who worry that it could abruptly upend current operations and stifle work and discussions that routinely take place between branches of government.

Officials at sub-agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, for example, have been told not to send “any correspondence to public officials” according to a memo shared with HuffPost. Instead, they have been asked to refer questions to agency leadership until the leadership has had time to meet with incoming White House staff about the new administration’s policies and objectives, according to a congressional official who was also informed of the communications freeze.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-communication-freeze_us_58878b3ae4b0441a8f7114e2?p0jpp58ohp6ekx1or&

[titaniumsalute]

1. So when does Congress Say F YOU I can talk to these people if I want to?

[cstanleytech]

2. Congress can talk all it wants but it looks like Trump might be overstepping his bounds

if his administration actually said not to to talk to Congress.

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. No external communications? So...we'll just have to ring the bell...

[The_Voice_of_Reason]

4. Check out Chief of Staff's letter to Agencies

regarding matters that need posted in the Federal Registry...they are being held up, and ones already posted if possible are to be pulled back for review by Trump's people.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Doesn't this violate the very function of those agencies? Aren't they obliged to ADVISE Congress and

the people in a timely way? This smells wrong on a constitutional level.

[Plucketeer]

6. This smells wrong on ANY level!

The reality is as bad as the nightmare!

[OnlinePoker]

7. This kind of reminds me of Stephen Harper's government in Canada

Muzzle anyone who might not toe the ruler's line. Start with the scientists.

[Sedona]

8. What the fucking fuck !

Are we going to stop getting weather forecasts from NOAA?

[Blue Idaho]

9. Trump's instincts are self destructive.

This totalitarian horseshit won't and can't work in a free society. Meanwhile he is cementing public opinion against him. His vanity will be the death of him.