Charlie Kirk says government workers “operate as worthless parasites on the American taxpayer”
Kirk: “You are a leech on us”
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CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): An email heard around the world. A singular email that was sent last week. And the email was to ask every federal worker, “So, what do you do here and what have you gotten done?” The email was sent and it says, quote, “Please reply” — this was sent to every federal worker — “please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. Deadline to reply is Monday at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time.”
As soon as this email was sent, federal workers started to scream and say what do you mean I have to tell you what I do? This is harassment. This is taunting. This is unfair. No one has ever asked a federal worker, what do you do? Now, we do this every single week at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action. What do you do here? Tell us your progress report. In fact, taking a page out of Elon, we're gonna do this now every single week methodically, list the five things you got done.
Federal workers are now clamoring saying that this violates union rules. I'm sorry, guys. We — this is beyond laughable. This is repulsive. These people have jobs that we pay for, and they can't respond to an email asking them, just list five things you got done here. And the answer, of course, is they don't do anything of value. They show up, get a cup of coffee, reshuffle some papers, go into a conference room, and they're out the door by 3:30 or 4 o'clock. They operate as — not them personally — but they operate as worthless parasites on the American taxpayer.
Meanwhile, every single one of you in the audience here, whether you are a doctor or a lawyer, an engineer — in the private sector, every day you have to justify your existence. Every day. Even if you work at McDonald's, even if you work as a garbage man, name five things that you did at McDonald's. Well, today, I cleaned the french fryer, and I scrubbed the floors, and I made Big Macs, and I made sure the Diet Coke machine was working, and I helped the customer to their car because she was struggling in the snow. Five things. Great, thank you very much, McDonald's employee of the month. Earning $12 an hour, someone at McDonald's tells you concretely what they do. But if you dare to ask our millions of federal workers, hey, just tell us five bullet points of what you did, they are mass refusing this inquiry. It is intimidating, they say. It's scary. They're not used to have anybody come in and ask them a question. In fact, what a chance to put out your chest. Oh, yeah, Elon? These are the five things that I do at the Department of Interior. These are the five things I do at Health and Human Services. This could be done in two minutes. These are the five things I did. One, two, three, four, five.
Can these people not do bullets? Can these people read? I'm getting to some very provocative answers. They are mass deciding not to respond to this inquiry. If your work is all classified, just say so, and chances are it's not. Chances are you're not doing anything that you can even report on. You simply exist. You are a leech on us, and this is the core of what Elon is surfacing, what President Trump is flushing out.