Posted on 01/30/2017 3:45:50 PM PST by Theoria
The White House on Monday warned State Department officials that they should leave their jobs if they did not agree with President Trump’s agenda, an extraordinary effort to stamp out a wave of internal dissent against Mr. Trump’s temporary ban on entry visas for people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Career officials at the State Department are circulating a so-called dissent cable, which says that Mr. Trump’s executive order closing the nation’s doors to more than 200 million people to weed out a handful of would-be terrorists would not make the nation safer and might instead deepen the threat.
“These career bureaucrats have a problem with it?” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters. “They should either get with the program or they can go.”
Asked if he was suggesting that people resign, Mr. Spicer said, “If somebody has a problem with that agenda, that does call into question whether or not they should continue in that post.”
Mr. Spicer defended the visa ban, saying its effects had been grossly exaggerated and that it symbolized Mr. Trump’s overriding goal of protecting the safety of the nation. He displayed little patience for the “dissent channel,” which the State Department has long maintained as a way for its staff to register objections over administration policies.
It was the starkest confrontation yet between the new president, who is moving swiftly to upend years of government policies, and an entrenched bureaucracy, parts of which are openly hostile to Mr. Trump’s proposals or have struggled to enforce his executive orders, which have been announced with little warning and no input from the rank and file.
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One can’t help but wonder if President Trump had to impose his ban quickly because the DC gov that’s in place in many cases is working to undermine him. He’s got to drain that State Department swamp.
* President Trump has to change the Corp. Culture ( of Washington )
* It takes 3 yrs in the Corp. World.
* He may have less time than that.
* read American Icon the book about the Ford Turn-Around. Mulally had to either get rid of those not going along with the "One Ford going forward" or they would have to self select out if they didn't agree with it. It was about getting rid of fiefdom's. State seems to me to be a bazillion fiefdoms. That must end.
Spicer was great at the morning presser...he even repeated himself saying, if State Department employees don’t agree with President Trump’s policies, they should resign.
HOORAY Administration and President Trump! Drain THAT swamp. Putrid, unaccountable, unelected, executive branch POS bureaucrats not with POTUS.
Forming a more perfect union BUMP!
Dear useless ass GOP,
Why the Hell does our president not have his Attorney Gerneral?
Can you guys quit playing with yourselves sometime soon and earn your f***in’ pay?
If they can’t be fired, put them in charge of visa matters and diplomatic relations with Antarctica.
Dim stall tactics. I think any senator can delay most any matter for a few days and Diane Feinstein was able to delay action on Sessions until, I think, 1/31, or tomorrow.
They will sign a “cable” stating they dissent from the policy. If those “diplomats” had spines, they would sign a letter of resignation.
I hope the Presidents sends each person who signed the “cable” a letter stating he makes the policy and the people in the Department of State execute that policy. If they cannot execute that policy, they owe it to the American people to resign. I hope the letter also states, “If you refuse to execute any policy, I will be forced to consider your action insubordination and I will fire you from your position. Please remember that all the protections afforded to federal employees do not include insubordination.
“Please respond to this letter in five duty days to let me know you will carry out all policies of this administration. If you do not respond within five duty days, I will take action to involuntarily separate you.”
“Sincerely,
“Donald J. Trump”
Liberal Pussy EXTRA: Trump makes another one cry.
Keef Olderwoman: if you want to skip his histrionic,
hysterical BS that triggered him, just go to 1:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLgAB6NX3lw&ab_channel=GQ
I love the way he moves a paper every now and then, as if it’s something other than a prop.
Never mind, don’t do it. I watched too much and now I’m nauseous.
“Feels like a coup.”
Yup, a bureaucratic coup! POTUS45 and his people are going to have to root out all of these entrenched leftists in all of these agencies. The good thing is that most of these snowflakes are so emotional, and so incapable of keeping their mouths shut, that it will be relatively easy to determine who is going to play ball with the “new management” and who isn’t!
Within the next week to ten days every person working at the State Department needs to take a fill in the blank test. Minimum passing score is 100%
Question 1: What country do you work for?
Question 2: The State Department is in what branch of the Federal Government?
Question 3: Since January 20th who is in charge of the Federal Government?
Each person taking the test has 60 seconds to complete the test. The test must be taken individually. Each test is graded immediately. Failure of the test results in immediate dismissal for cause.
Upon their dismissal they use the privilege to use the terms associated with their old office.
Git ‘er done!
Been hearing that since 1946...The complete infestation of the State Dept (just as they had in the White house bureaucracy during the early 1940's) was one the most important goals of the post-war Soviet Union.
They accomplished that before the 1950's began, and they have maintained their grip ever since. Communists are incredibly skilled at inefficient operations as a way to control a huge bureaucracy. Whether it is the janitors, clerk typists, secretaries, low-level managers, or other faceless program managers, bureaucracy rules from the bottom up.
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