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Trump Administration Stomps All Over The Hatch Act With Shutdown Website Banners And Away Messages
The Hatch Act of 1939 is a beautiful piece of legislation. It disallows all kinds of things, like bribing voters with jobs to vote a certain way, as well as limiting any campaign activity by federal workers. Another thing it does is to prohibit partisan political activity in the course of a staff member's federal employment duties. An IRS agent, for instance, can't tell someone going through an audit that their taxes are so high because "the Democrat or Republican party sucks and they hate you." The idea is that we want federal employees carrying out their duties in a non-partisan manner.
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