{"id":477,"date":"2026-05-26T19:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:39:17","slug":"trump-torn-apart-for-new-effort-to-silence-government-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Trump torn apart for new effort to silence government workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Social media pounced the Trump administration\u2019s proposal to force all employees to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks to media organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=475\">New defense budget torpedoes Trump-class battleship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new requirement proposed by President Donald Trump in , states that \u201cfederal employees do not have discretion to disclose Confidential Government Information,\u201d and that unauthorized disclosure of such information disrupts agency operations and \u201cerodes public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, if successful, would make \u201cwritten permission from an authorized agency official\u201d a requirement before an employee could speak about information the Trump administration declares confidential \u2014 regardless of the seriousness or the alleged harm the government action is doing.<\/p>\n<p>The NDA is designed to bring financial pain to the whistleblower by demanding financial restitution, and it even applies to employees after they leave federal service.<\/p>\n<p>Social media critics whaled on the proposal, with the Freedom of the Press Foundation calling it \u201cnot just absurd, it\u2019s unnecessary and dangerously secretive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis policy would kneecap whistleblower protections, undermine the First Amendment, and wrongly inhibit the public\u2019s right to know,\u201d the association added on Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=473\">Joe Rogan compares \u2018crazy\u2019 Trump to Saddam Hussein\u2019s bloodthirsty son<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C. attorney Bradley Moss also blasted the proposal on Bluesky: \u201cFederal employees operate under an array of statutory, regulatory and policy restrictions on the unauthorized disclosure of unclassified information. The only reason to add this NDA would be to undercut lawful \u2026 disclosures to the media that SCOTUS approved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. diplomat William Gill pointed out on X that \u201cThis obviously begs the question, what are they trying to hide now? Federal employees are barred from unauthorized disclosures of classified information but they\u2019re also covered by whistleblower protections regarding waste, fraud and abuse. That\u2019s the likely area being targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other critics took a more biting turn, with one heckler complaining on Bluesky that \u201cFed workers are not the ones needing to be gagged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another blasted \u201cabsolutely breathtaking authoritarian s\u2014\u2014 from this admin and that\u2019s saying something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=471\">Nancy Mace goes all-in on \u2018natural born\u2019 citizen requirement<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media pounced the Trump administration\u2019s proposal to force all employees to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks to media organizations.The new requirement proposed by President Donald Trump in a Tuesdy draft notice, states that \u201cfederal employees do not have discretion to disclose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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