House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Sunday that any federal workers who protest President Joe Biden's policy on Israel and the war with Hamas should be fired.
According to Al-Monitor, federal employees in more than 20 agencies plan to hold a walkout in protest of the Biden administration's handling of the situation. Johnson criticized those who would participate in the protest.
"Any government worker who walks off the job to protest U.S. support for our ally Israel is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers," Johnson wrote on X. "They deserve to be fired."
Johnson added that House "Oversight Chairman [James] Comer and I will be working together to ensure that each federal agency initiates appropriate disciplinary proceedings against any person who walks out on their job."
One organizer, who was not named, told Al-Monitor that the "Day of Mourning" plans "grew out of a collective desire to do what we could to influence the Biden administration's policy on this issue."
The organizer added: "What you're seeing with this effort is something very unusual, and that is for dissent to be manifested via a physical act."
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