working people

And it’s not just the unions formed by working people via collective action that Trump/Musk are targeting.

Reeves decided not to extend the threshold freeze in her first Budget, arguing that doing so "would hurt working people" and "take more money out of their payslips".

In it he wrote: "the government's challenge was to shape this new era. Not to defend institutions that are broken or old ideas that have failed, but to be the voice of working people who more than anything want security in their lives, and a country that is on the up again."

So imagine if in that moment when the funding freeze happens, for example, if the congressional Democrats wrote a very official sounding email also to all the federal workers, saying, “You guys are authorized by Congress. You are not allowed to stop working. People who are in charge of the IT systems, you're not authorized to hand over the keys to Elon Musk and for an illegal order.”

“While they work to protect public health and safety, federal workers have faced constant harassment from unelected billionaires and anti-union extremists whose only goal is to give themselves massive tax breaks at the expense of working people.”