Federal employee claims bosses used government resources to push Trump campaign in Arizona
A worker believes bosses at the US Department of Homeland Security may have violated federal law by apparently using government resources to benefit President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in key battleground states in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election.
A senior staffer at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) expressed fears that leaders within the DHS were violated the Hatch Act of 1939 — the law that bars executive branch employees from partisan political activities while acting in a professional capacity — by regularly speaking out in favour of Trump at press conferences arranged to discuss immigration policy.
The CBP employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said alarm bells became deafening when senior immigration officials appeared to make a last-minute decision to switch the location of a press conference arranged for Monday, the day before the U.S. election, from CBP’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. to Tucson, Arizona, a key battleground state.
The staffer said the decision to change the location would have been made sometime after Friday, when it had still been arranged to take place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
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