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 Heritage Foundation Staffers Flood Federal Agencies With Thousands of
Information Requests

The conservative think tank's requests are clogging the pipeline at
federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential
Trump administration would want to purge. 

Three investigators for the Heritage Foundation have deluged federal
agencies with thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests over
the past year, requesting a wide range of information on government
employees, including communications that could be seen as a political
liability by conservatives. Among the documents they've sought are
lists of agency personnel and messages sent by individual government
workers that mention, among other things, "climate equity," "voting"
or "SOGIE," an acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and
expression.

The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank's
Project 2025 was promoting a controversial plan to remove job
protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants so they
could be identified and fired if Donald Trump wins the presidential
election.

https://www.propublica.org/article/have-government-employees-mentioned-climate-change-voting-or-gender-identity-the-heritage-foundation-wants-to-know