Expensive Reps. Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher and Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch,
We hope this e-mail finds you nicely.
In accordance with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s directives to make sure that the federal authorities is working effectively and that no federal worker is losing taxpayer {dollars} by sitting round and doing nothing, we’re reaching out to you right now with one easy query: What did you do final week?
As you could have learn within the information (except your information subscriptions have already been canceled by the Division of Authorities Effectivity), hundreds of federal staff final week received a similar email with the topic line, “What did you do final week?”
We wished to ensure all federal staff bought the memo.
Please reply to this e-mail with approx. (we don’t have time to jot down out “roughly”) 5 bullets of what you achieved final week.
Please don’t ship any categorised data, hyperlinks or attachments. (We don’t need the Russians getting a maintain of them — er, we imply Ukraine.)
Particularly, please record what you probably did final week to honor your oath of workplace, what you probably did as a examine and steadiness towards a rogue government department and what you probably did to guard democracy and the U.S. Structure.
In different phrases, your jobs.
Sen. Risch, as chairman of the Senate Committee on International Relations and longtime member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, what have you ever accomplished up to now 5 days to counteract the devastating international coverage reversal of the Trump administration?
Please inform us what you probably did following an embarrassing meeting by which Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and demanded that he thank them.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who you as soon as mentioned was most likely your greatest buddy within the Senate when he was a senator, was at that assembly and sat by wanting on as if somebody had punched him within the abdomen.
Are you able to please inform us in case you reached out to Secretary Rubio to remind him that Russia is the one which invaded Ukraine?
Additional, what have you ever accomplished, in your respective roles as chairman of the International Relations Committee and member of the Intelligence Committee, following the announcement that Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth ordered a halt to offensive cyber operations towards Russia, as if Russia have been not a cybersecurity menace.
In your e-mail, please clarify why you didn’t signal on as a co-sponsor of a bipartisan resolution from the International Relations Committee expressing the U.S. Senate’s unwavering assist for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity whereas condemning Russia’s unlawful aggression and makes an attempt to grab Ukrainian territory.
Rep. Simpson, in your e-mail, are you able to please clarify what you could have accomplished concerning the firings of hundreds of Nationwide Park and U.S. Forest Service staff, jeopardizing our public lands and opening us as much as wildfires.
Rep. Simpson, you could have been a champion of public lands. You have been instrumental in establishing three new wilderness areas in central Idaho: the Hemingway-Boulders Wilderness, the Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness and the Jim McClure-Jerry Peak Wilderness, totaling 275,665 acres.
However why create these wilderness areas if there aren’t any Forest Service staff to take care of and defend these lands?
Sen. Crapo, because the chairman of the Finance Committee, what have you ever accomplished to guarantee Idaho companies that Trump’s tariffs won’t damage them?
What have you ever accomplished within the final week to push again towards President Trump’s damaging rhetoric and actions towards Canada and Mexico, our biggest mates and commerce companions? Have in mind, Canada is Idaho’s largest buying and selling companion, with exports totaling over $1.4 billion in 2023, in line with the Idaho Department of Commerce.
Rep. Fulcher, as a supposed fiscal hawk, are you able to clarify why you voted in favor of the Home finances invoice, which not solely cuts companies to the poor and offers tax breaks to the rich but additionally increases the federal budget deficit?
Your silence and failure to behave counsel that you’ve accomplished nothing up to now week, which might be a gross misuse and waste of taxpayer {dollars}.
Deadline to reply is that this Thursday at 11:59 p.m. MST.
Please reply to this e-mail and cc your managers, i.e., the voters who put you in workplace.
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