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Stop DOGE from summarily firing people in my government without cause.

To: Sen. Merkley, Sen. Wyden, Rep. Bentz

From: A constituent in Ashland, OR

April 16

Stop DOGE from summarily firing people in my government without cause. I do want to know if there is fraud, waste or abuse in government, but the alleged Department of Government Efficiency is not looking carefully for fraud, waste or abuse - it is summarily firing swaths of employees and closing entire agencies that may or may not have been important to keep the federal government functioning in a way that serves me, you and everyone else. Where is the proof? Where are the investigations into how exactly the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for example, is wasting my money? I, for one, think that agency was saving me money overall and I want it reinstated immediately with at least 90% of us its employees. Where is the proof that the scientists at the FDA were committing fraud? I like the FDA and believe it is properly serving me and you and other Americans. I do not want the employees of the FDA fired without proof that they are wasting my tax dollars. Where is the investigation? These are only two examples of the rampant blatant abuse by DOGE itself. DOGE itself is committing fraud. DOGE is its own waste of money. DOGE is not efficient, because the rebuilding of the federal government will be enormously cumbersome and expensive for me and all Americans. DOGE is its own ironic little problem, and I demand answers. I demand DOGE immediately stop cutting programs and federal agencies, and stop firing federal employees. I demand DOGE show me the proof that these people and agencies were not already efficient. I demand DOGE prove to us all that the fired employees deserved to be fired.

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