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Trump Readies New Plan to ‘Drain the Swamp’ If Elected
Conservative Brief ^ | January 27, 2023 | Jon Dougherty

Posted on 01/31/2023 4:32:36 PM PST by SoConPubbie

Former President Donald Trump, who is set to begin campaigning in earnest over the next few weeks as he seeks to become the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee, has been developing a new plan to “drain the swamp” should he manage to win.

One part of the plan involves an executive order that would allow for the immediate firing of federal workers, thereby ending their virtual ‘job-for-life’ status.

“It would strip any official who has anything to do with the policy of any real career protections or due process. Government employees could essentially be fired at will or even on a whim,” a federal worker union official warned, according to the Washington Examiner.

During his first term, Trump had hopes of reforming federal employee hiring and firing processes in order to replace embedded careerists who were slow-walking or thwarting his agenda, but his administration ran into tough resistance from federal unions.

In July, a report noted that Trump and his allies spent the previous several months meticulously planning not only his return to the White House but also a massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy down to the mid-staff level that could lead to tens of thousands of firings.

According to Axios, whose correspondents spent three months interviewing some two dozen Trump insiders and others familiar with the planning, Trump will reimplement “Schedule F,” an executive order he issued just days before the 2020 election and which was quickly rescinded by President Joe Biden that calls for completely reshaping hundreds of federal agencies.

The plan calls for replacing current bureaucrats with young professionals who are all-in with his “MAGA” agenda. Schedule F formed a new category of federal employees who are in “positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character,” and allows for those employees to be replaced following a presidential transition.

“The Federal Government benefits from career professionals in positions that are not normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition,” the order says.

Axios added:

Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his “America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios.

The impact could go well beyond typical conservative targets such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service. Trump allies are working on plans that would potentially strip layers at the Justice Department — including the FBI, and reaching into national security, intelligence, the State Department and the Pentagon, sources close to the former president say.

As many as 50,000 employees could immediately be fired, including many at the Justice Department, Pentagon, and the FBI.

Axios further explained that the Trump effort to reshape government institutions and change their culture, politically, is extensive, multi-layered, and ongoing.

“Well-funded groups are already developing lists of candidates selected often for their animus against the system — in line with Trump’s long-running obsession with draining ‘the swamp,’” the outlet reported. “This includes building extensive databases of people vetted as being committed to Trump and his agenda.”

“The preparations are far more advanced and ambitious than previously reported. What is happening now is an inversion of the slapdash and virtually non-existent infrastructure surrounding Trump ahead of his 2017 presidential transition,” the report continued.

“These groups are operating on multiple fronts: shaping policies, identifying top lieutenants, curating an alternative labor force of unprecedented scale, and preparing for legal challenges and defenses that might go before Trump-friendly judges, all the way to a 6-3 Supreme Court,” Axios added.

Though Biden rescinded Schedule F, the order is serving as the blueprint for reshaping and reforming the federal bureaucracy that Trump’s lieutenants are using to plan for his return.

“We are consciously bringing on the toughest and most courageous fighters with the know-how and credibility to crush the deep state,” Russ Vought, who heads the Center for Renewing America (CRA), told Axios. The organization’s mission is to “renew a consensus of America as a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending.”

Other Trump-aligned organizations are involved as well, including America First Legal, a group formed by former senior adviser Steven Miller — an organization that has challenged several of Biden’s policies. The group is involved in forming a cadre of attorneys who could fill roles in a new Trump administration.

Also, American Moment, a group that recruits and trains staff for all governmental levels, says it has 700 “fully vetted” individuals who could fill roles right off the bat.



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To: SoConPubbie

I believe that Trump is sincere here, very sincere. But the problem - for me at least - is that Trump has appeared not have learned much from his past mistakes. I want Trump 2.0. And what I’m seeing (so far) is Trump 1.1.


21 posted on 01/31/2023 5:38:35 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: TigerHawk

Shout all you want to, but Trump IS in deep with Swamp Rats.

Look at his recent endorsements of Kevin McCarthy and Ronna McDaniel.

And you know what? This is good. You have to go along sometimes to get along. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as they say.

Trump tried for 4 years to go it alone with no friends on The Hill. Didn’t work then and it won’t work next time.


22 posted on 01/31/2023 5:40:56 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Forget "draining the swamp."

Just try, convict, and sentence the traitorous DeepStaters to publicly hang. There are enough of them to keep the courts busy for years.

23 posted on 01/31/2023 5:47:15 PM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Responsibility2nd

And let me guess,you think globalist Ron DeSantis will do a better job?


24 posted on 01/31/2023 5:49:53 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: SoConPubbie

I just hope those Italian satellites are neutralized.

And don’t get me started about the Hugo Chavez/ Dominion voting machines.

Apparently I saw on Q , there are plans to destroy those satellites.

Trust the plan.


25 posted on 01/31/2023 5:52:57 PM PST by xyz2
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’M SORRY. I THOUGHT THAT BY NOW I WOULD NOT HAVE TO POST THIS EVERY TIME I POST.

I AM NOT SHOUTING. I HAVE A PROBLEM W/MY EYES AND RESORT TO CAPS IN ORDER THAT I NEED NOT TAKE FOREVER TO POST WITHOUT MULTIPLE TYPOS. I KNOW THERE ARE OTHER METHODS PROPOSED, BUT I FIND THIS SUITS ME BEST. ALL THAT SAID...

I DON’T AGREE WITH YOUR VIEW AT ALL. WITH VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS (ALL OF THOSE BEING GOP) THE DENIZENS OF DC ARE CORRUPT POLITICIANS, A CABAL OF RUTHLESS SELF INTEREST. THERE ARE NO FRIENDS ON THE HILL...AND DAMNED FEW IN THE STATES!

WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, IT COMES DOWN TO YOU! REALIZE THAT!


26 posted on 01/31/2023 5:56:42 PM PST by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Clean house from the top down. Start with directors, then assts, assts to the assts, etc. Sends message to lower level workers.
Freeze wages, hiring and budgets.


27 posted on 01/31/2023 5:57:14 PM PST by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yeah. Right.

He did such a good job of doing that when he was president.

Just ask Sessions. Or Barr.


I am tired of the sniping. Trunp did a lot of good, more than anyone else.

AND HE IS STILL IN THE FIGHT.

You are not helping.


28 posted on 01/31/2023 5:58:45 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Just try, convict, and sentence the traitorous DeepStaters to publicly hang.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

DITTOS!!!


29 posted on 01/31/2023 5:59:25 PM PST by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

You are not helping.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
DITTOS!


30 posted on 01/31/2023 6:01:18 PM PST by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Globalist? You think DeSantis is a globalist? Take a look at this list of Trump’s Global holdings and try and educate yourself on what a globalist is.

Thank you.

United States
Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, Bronx, New York (management only)[193]
Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, Florida
Trump National Doral Miami: An 800-acre (320 ha) resort with five golf courses, 700 hotel rooms, a spa, meeting spaces, and retail outlets. Trump bought the property out of bankruptcy in 2012 for $150 million, and has spent over $250 million on renovations.[194] Its value has been estimated at over $1 billion, and there was a $125 million mortgage on the property as of 2013.[161]
Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, New Jersey
Trump National Golf Club, Charlotte, North Carolina
Trump National Golf Club, Colts Neck, New Jersey
Trump National Golf Club, Hudson Valley, New York
Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, Florida
Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles
Trump National Golf Club, Philadelphia
Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C.
Trump National Golf Club, Westchester, New York

International
Trump International Golf Club, Dubai: A golf course owned by Damac Properties and managed by the Trump Organization.[195] Located in the Damac Hills residential development, it opened in 2017.[195] Trump’s involvement with Damac head Hussain Sajwani has been cited as a source of possible conflicts of interest for Trump’s presidency.[196][197]
Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Ireland
Trump International Golf Links, Scotland: A links course built in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. The development of the course was controversial because of local concerns about the environmental impact, as well as a legal battle over the construction of a nearby offshore wind farm.
Trump Turnberry: A historic golf resort with three courses and a hotel, located in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Trump purchased the property in 2014, despite having threatened to withdraw any further investment in Scotland amid the wind farm controversy.[198]
Trump World Golf Club, Dubai: A second golf course under construction by Damac in its Akoya Oxygen housing development.[199] In February 2021, it was announced that the opening of the golf course was delayed until at least 2022. It was being asserted that the delay was due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Emirati developers were struggling to finish the real estate projects even before the pandemic.[200]


31 posted on 01/31/2023 6:05:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: NTHockey

Clean house from the top down.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
DITTOS!


32 posted on 01/31/2023 6:07:45 PM PST by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: SoConPubbie

What Trump MUST do is break up the monopoly that is Washington, DC.

Quarter the Department of the Interior in Denver, for example. Commerce in New York, Agriculture in Oklahoma City, etc. Bring the agencies to the people they are supposed to serve. That unelected agency employees who have never been west of the Beltway feel like they can govern business in Idaho or Nebraska has always been a ridiculous idea, and infuriating to the people their edicts affect. Not only would the agencies have more contact with the people they make the rules for, relocating them would improve the economies of every state they quarter in.

And, for godsake, eliminate all the three-letter agencies (EPA, HUD, etc.) that were created back in the ‘70s to placate rioting hippies.


33 posted on 01/31/2023 6:08:03 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: TigerHawk

Forgive me for being snarky. I can understand your need for all caps. I'm hoping printing this in large fonts helps.

Might you consider explaining in your tagline your need for all caps? So people like me don't make fools of ourself.

Thanks.


34 posted on 01/31/2023 6:11:48 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: TigerHawk; Chgogal; SoConPubbie
Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service
A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 10/26/2020

October surprise noun

Somebody didn't like 45's surprise.

35 posted on 01/31/2023 6:14:47 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Carl Vehse

“.. try, convict, and sentence the traitorous DeepStaters to publicly hang”. Sounds like you want a south american banana republic dictatorship. Kangaroo courts, etc. Who gets to decide who the deepstaters are carl...you??

Don’t think that will fly...


36 posted on 01/31/2023 6:18:16 PM PST by oldguy1776
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To: Responsibility2nd
You've done it! You've figured it out!

Trump is addicted to golf courses.

Well done!

(though I'm not sure how owning golf courses makes him a globalist compared to these guys...

GLOBAL assets.

37 posted on 01/31/2023 6:26:02 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Responsibility2nd
He did such a good job of doing that when he was president.

Yes. Biden is doing SO much better, right?

38 posted on 01/31/2023 6:47:17 PM PST by MountainDad (A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others. Support your local militia.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Don’t fire them, just transfer them…to that new, open air, federal facility that the Army Corps of Engineers will be building in north-central Alaska in late January, 2025. If they refuse the transfer, then they can be fired for cause. No heaters, of course, we don’t want to melt the glaciers.


39 posted on 01/31/2023 7:02:52 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: SoConPubbie

Where have I hear that before? And I heard he’s going to mane America great again, too. I’ll vote for him if he promises to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.


40 posted on 01/31/2023 7:09:39 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a CONSERVATIVE dictator to return it to a Constitutional Republic. )
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