Скачать или смотреть People protesting Elon Musk and DOGE gather outside the Office of Personnel Management

(3 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington - 3 February 2025
1. Keya Chatterjee speaking to a small group of protesters, using a megaphone
UPSOUND (English) Keya Chatterjee, activist:
"When our Constitution is under attack, what do we do? So I want to be really clear that there may be only a few people here today, but this will grow and we will not stop. This has gone beyond the pale. This is out of control. This is not a normal situation. I want the media here to start covering this like what it is; a coup that is happening under our watch. Again, Trump is a puppet of a foreign national whose name is Musk, who has taken over our data, who has taken over our buildings, has locked federal workers out of buildings."
2. Wide of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management offices
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Keya Chatterjee, activist:
"They've stolen data from this building as well as from the Treasury Department."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Keya Chatterjee, activist:
"Trump has become a puppet of Elon Musk, which is really scary because nobody elected him and now he has all this information. We don't know why he has it, but we need to get it back."
5. "Hands off our data, you fascist creeps" sign
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Keya Chatterjee, activist:
"Musk was not elected, and he's taking over powers that really belong to Congress. Congress is the entity in this country that is supposed to decide how money gets appropriated."
7. Police officer holding a phone, watching the protest
STORYLINE:
A group of about 30 people gathered outside the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to protest Elon Musk and DOGE actions Monday morning.

Slugged “Fork in the Road,” the OPM email is officially a “deferred resignation offer.” Federal workers outside the military, immigration enforcement, national security and the U.S. Postal Service received the email. Those who accept will receive their pay and benefits through the end of September without having to work. Federal employees can accept the offer by typing “Resign” in the subject line of the response.

The email also hinted that future job cuts are a possibility.

Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them, after billionaire Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.

USAID staffers said they also tracked more than 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.”

Two government employees who tried to gain access to the USAID offices in the building on Monday morning said they were turned away by security guards, who told them the offices were open but people could not go in. Later in the morning, uniformed Department of Homeland Security officers blocked the lobby of the USAID’s headquarters using yellow tape with the words “do not cross.”

The developments come after Musk, who’s leading an extraordinary civilian review of the federal government with the Republican president’s agreement, said early Monday that he had spoken with Trump about the six-decade U.S. aid and development agency and “he agreed we should shut it down.”

AP video shot by Rick Gentilo, produced by Serkan Gurbuz

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