Tom Cole's office told me "Nothing is actually happening" and "The media is just trying to scare people."

So I called Tom Cole's office to address Marco Rubio's announcement yesterday about El Salvador hosting American deportees and American prisoners. I also brought up my concerns with Elon musk scrapping USAID and other programs and his boasting about firing us employees on X. They basically told me that people are getting upset for no reason and that nothing is actually happening. I raised concerns that Rubio had directly announced it in a press conference and they said "That doesn't sound right." So I don't really know what to do with that. As the office either doesn't care or didn't know. When I raised concerns about Musk they basically said nothing is happening and it's just "The media" trying to scare us. When told direct quotes from Musk she told me "He can say whatever he likes but there is no evidence." I'm at a loss. Either I'm completely misguided, they are completely out of touch or are complicit. Either way it was a distressing call.

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