This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," February 20, 2022: Blinken, Antonov, Markarova, Krebs, Stoltenberg, Schlesinger
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Antony Blinken - Secretary of State Anatoly Antonov - Ambassador of Russia to the United States Oksana Markarova - Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Chris Krebs - CBS News cybersecurity expert and analyst Jens Stoltenberg - NATO Secretary General Jill Schlesinger - CBS News business analyst Date: Sunday, February 20, 2022 TV: "Face the Nation" airs Sunday mornings on CBS. Click here for your local listings Radio: Subscribe to "Face the Nation" from CBS Radio News to listen on-the-go Free online stream: Watch the show on CBS' streaming network CBSN at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET.
More than 2 million federal employees face a looming deadline: By midnight on Thursday, they must decide whether to accept a "deferred resignation" offer from the Trump administration. If workers accept, according to a White House plan, they would continue getting paid through September but would be excused from reporting for duty. But if they opt to keep their jobs, they could get fired.
More employees of the Environmental Protection Agency were informed Wednesday that their jobs appear in doubt. Senior leadership at the EPA held an all-staff meeting to tell individuals that President Trump's executive order, "Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing," which was responsible for the closure of the agency's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office, will likely lead to the shuttering of the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights as well.
In her first hours as attorney general, Pam Bondi issued a broad slate of directives that included a Justice Department review of the prosecutions of President Trump, a reorientation of department work to focus on harsher punishments, actions punishing so-called "sanctuary" cities and an end to diversity initiatives at the department.