By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com

• White House employees and staff from more than two dozen federal agencies are set to strike on Tuesday  
• The walk out will mark 100 days of Israel’s siege on Gaza, which has killed upwards of 23,000 people, mostly civilians 
• It comes amid growing internal resentment toward the Biden administration’s handling of the Middle East crisis

There are concerns that Biden’s support for the conflict is costing him significant political currency, particularly with young voters, just as his 2024 re-election campaign heats up.

The walk out is a drastic departure from how top federal employees have shown their disapproval toward White House policy in the past, which was typically reserved to media leaks or public resignations over policy.

But the organizers, who have remained anonymous, say they are intent on changing direction from within, and they expect ‘easily hundreds’ of staffers to join their efforts on Tuesday.

They say they have commitments from people inside 22 federal agencies for the strike, including from the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Agency, Homeland Security, Defense Department, and the FDA.

The Biden administration has so far sent upwards of $14 billion to Israel alongside significant military support, with United Nations estimates placing the number of displaced Palestinians since at 1.9 million people – 85 percent of its population.

One of the organizers of the strike told AI Monitor that they decided to launch the protest as it ‘grew out of a collective desire to do what we could to influence the Biden administration’s policy on this issue.’

‘What you’re seeing with this effort is something very unusual, and that is for dissent to be manifested via a physical act,’ they added.

The unrest has also reportedly seen a number of letters also drafted through the State Department’s private ‘dissent channel’, a way for staffers to raise concerns anonymously that was set up during the Vietnam War.

To curb the internal revolts, White House officials have reportedly held meetings with their aides to hear out their concerns, including ‘listening sessions’ between Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Arab American, Muslim and Jewish staffers.

The organizer said they had ‘unequivocally’ tried to raise their points internally, but feel the mass walkout is one of their last resorts.

‘It’s one thing to write letters from within, but when policy discussions and dissent cables yield no shift in policy — and in some views, a double down on that policy — then people feel they have no other option because they’re not being heard,’ they added.

While top federal staffers in years past have resigned in protest over disagreements, the organizer said they felt a ‘moral obligation and patriotic duty’ to change Biden’s approach from the inside.

Specific issues cited for the walkout also included America’s obstruction of ceasefire campaigns within the United Nations, and the bypassing of Congress to send weapons to Israel.

The demonstration comes as reports cite growing anger from Washington elites over the attitude of young staffers in showing their disapproval to their bosses.

A series of anonymous letters penned by staffers in the White House, State Department and Biden’s re-election campaign have been levied since the conflict erupted in October, a move that would have been unthinkable decades ago.

James Carville, a longtime Democratic operative and former campaign strategist for President Bill Clinton, told Politico that the letters mark a turning point to how young staffers speak their minds.

‘There’s this whole, “You’re not the boss of me” attitude now. “I might work for you but I have my own views,”‘ he said.

‘If you said you didn’t like some of President Clinton’s policies, the idea that you would go public with that would be insane. Just wouldn’t do that. It wouldn’t even cross your mind.’

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