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Federal worker who went rogue against DOGE says ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

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Karen Ortiz is an administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission .

The EEOC is the federal agency in charge of enforcing U.S. workplace anti-discrimination laws.

Ortiz is just one person, but her email represents a larger pushback against the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to federal agencies amid an environment of confusion, anger and chaos.

A January poll shows that about 3 in 10 U.S. adults strongly or somewhat approve of Trump ’s creation of DOGE .

Ortiz said she has received “a ton” of support privately in the month since sending her email.

She said she never intended for her email to go beyond the EEOC , describing it as a “love letter” to her colleagues.

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