'Their days are numbered': Federal bureaucrats are panicking over Trump win — especially at DOJ and FBI

The Blaze ^ | 11/08/2024 | Joseph MacKinnon

[DFG]

Employees at the Biden-Harris Department of Justice and their fellow travelers at the FBI are apparently "shell-shocked" and updating their resumes following President-elect Donald Trump's landslide electoral victory.

Federal bureaucrats' apparent fears of a thorough housecleaning are justified, as Trump has made no secret of his plan to "shatter the Deep State and restore government that is controlled by the People."

Background In March 2023, Trump announced that on day one, he would reissue his 2020 executive order establishing the Schedule F employment category for federal employees, making it easier to remove insubordinate and poorly performing bureaucrats from an estimated pool of 50,000 eligible candidates.

"I will wield that power aggressively," Trump vowed.

President Joe Biden revoked Trump's Schedule F in January 2021 and announced a rule earlier this year aimed at further shielding federal bureaucrats from accountability and from being ousted under a framework resembling Schedule F.

Reversing this rule might take months and involve legal challenges. Nevertheless, Trump appears committed to ensuring that America's democratically elected president will once again "have appropriate management oversight regarding this select cadre of professionals."

Trump also vowed in his 10-point plan to "clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus."

"The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left's political enemies, which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible," said Trump.

Since detailing his cleanup program last year, Trump has brought on Elon Musk to lead a federal efficiency initiative, which might reinforce the cleanup of deadwood at the Justice Department and its well-armed offshoot.

[Delta 21]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Adak is not the end of the world, but on a clear day you can see it from there.

[blackdog]

For good reason.....

[cgbg]

Station the lefty Feds there—and then lease it to the Russians for a dollar a year.

Lol.

[usurper]

Step 2 - send them to obscure border towns like Lajitas Texas and limit their travel expenses so they cannot visit DC. Make them patrol the border (outside in the heat)

What do you against Lajitas, Texas or the Border Patrol? They've have enough problems with the illegals. The last thing they need is to be invaded by an army of lazy, entitled reprobates who can't fend for themselves.

[Night Hides Not]

New federal hires should be hired under term contracts. When i was hired by the FDIC in late 2009, I was hired on a 2 year contract with an agency option for 2 additional years. We all thought it was a great deal. The clock was reset with each promotion, so my total time was nearly 5 years.

I was in the right spot at the right time, I was promotied from GS7 to GS13 in. 10 months. The FDIC was a great place to work when Sheila Bair was the Director.

On an initial visit to a new loan servicer, we found a few anomalies in the first 30 minutes. Calls went up the line, stopping at her desk. Within 15 minutes, she told us to pack up and go back to the hotel while HQ untangled things.

[Enterprise]

I hear that Death Valley and Adak Alaska are nice this time of year.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The question needs to be asked. Can President Trump trust these people after what has gone on in these agencies since the Soetoro regime rampaged over America. I wouldn’t trust them. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I have had a clearance for neigh on to fifty years, and never once, ever, took a classified document home. I did purchase a desk that was surplused by my employer and found a CONFIDENTIAL document inside. I recognized the “owner” and had worked with him, and even did a skit with him at a church function, so I just destroyed it without incident.

[FLT-bird]

Abolish the FIB. Entirely. Nuke it.

[glorgau]

Send them to staff the new Prudhoe Bay offices to monitor the skies for Russian bombers because Russia, Russia, Russia.

[PeterPrinciple]

“I will wield that power aggressively,” Trump vowed.

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They think he means it evidently.

[TChad]

Can President Trump trust these people after what has gone on in these agencies since the Soetoro regime rampaged over America.

He sure can't trust the Secret Service. His life may depend on that.

[6ppc]

I’m pushing for Point Barrow.

[Gay State Conservative]

Unlike in 2016 DJT now knows exactly who the swamp creatures are and where they are.

[dfwgator]

And he brought in folks from outside the traditional GOP who don’t give a flip about the party, they just want to do the job.

[Gay State Conservative]

Although I never encountered a single general during my stellar 6 year Army “career” my guess is that a general could find something rather unpleasant for this E-3.

[Don@VB]

Ha Ha. Out of D.C. No computer. No internet. Phone ok but make it a single line rotary model.

[Hiddigeigei]

It is traditional that political appointees try to get Civil Service statist when there is a change of an administration.

[Reily]

Status not statist. The probably are statists.

It’s these guys

“...
Schedule C and other appointees sometimes attempt to transfer to a career position in the competitive service, excepted service, or Senior Executive Service; this practice, known as “burrowing in”, is desired by employees due to increased pay and job security, as career positions do not end when a presidential administration changes.
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