Acting Attorney General Sally Yates isn’t the only federal employee who openly defied Donald Trump’s presidency. The Washington Post reports that she was part of a “growing wave” of officials' “resistance" toward the president.
Yates was fired by President Trump when she ordered Justice Department lawyers to ignore his order that calls for extreme vetting of refugees. A White House statement said, “[Yates] betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States."
But, while her case was the most visible, she is not alone. The Washington Post reports that a small but vocal cadre of federal employees is meeting and planning ways to stop President Trump’s orders as well as any possible changes he may issue to “their mission."
The Washington Post reports that federal employees started their efforts after Trump was elected. They’ve been disseminating documents and government reports to put them into “the hands of allies outside the government”:
While many federal workers have begun to consider avenues of dissent only since the inauguration, others had been preparing for weeks. In the last days of Obama’s tenure, several departments catalogued data and reports and got them into the hands of allies outside the government.
The article also notes that the federal employees have been "in regular consultation with recently departed Obama-era political appointees” to strategize ways to undermine Trump.
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