Posted on 05/14/2025 8:11:54 PM PDT by bitt
It sounds like you are not familiar with how these agencies have gotten rid of people. Let us walk through it slowly.
1. Required all employee to report to the office and ending telework. Many thousands of employees retired or quit at that point.
2. Fired probationary employees. That has led to a bunch of lawsuits and it differs by agency and location—but they are mostly gone. Many have moved on to new jobs in the private sector or elsewhere. They are not coming back.
3. DRP 1.0 (deferred resignation program) This was a carrot where employees who agreed to leave signed contracts promising the agencies they would not sue them for any reason. In exchange they were paid until a given date (usually September 30) and did not have to report to work in the meantime unless the agency requested them to do so. Otherwise they were on administrative leave. Many thousand of folks took that option.
4. Closures of departments, divisions, other nooks and crannies, local offices. Many thousands of folks are gone from that. Some are suing, some are not. All are gone for now.
5. DRP 2.0. This was offered recently and was a big success once the federal employees were convinced the administration was serious. We are probably talking in the range of six figures of federal employees went for this. Remember—that means they cannot sue for any reason under the contract they signed.
6. RIF (Reduction in force). This is a complex process and is only being used as a last resort—and has a bunch of (predicted) court challenges. In most agencies it will not be needed to meet the administrations target numbers.
Bottom line—When you fight with all your weapons you win.
And you’re saying that FBI and DOJ didn’t carry out those measures that Trump initiated?
I am saying the DOJ and FBI has not carried out those measures.
That is why I want President Trump to fire Bondi and Kash.
Sure they may be doing a lot or maybe nothing. Impossible to say this early. The Epstein business made Blondi look pretty darn bad that much I do know.
Patel publicly stated he took the Epstein files back from her, due to a trove of new evidence. She didn’t fail to produce, she doesn’t have the case.
She’s focused on immigration/deportations, and doing a bang-up job on both that, and gang related crimes.
Didn’t Trump make those offers to all federal employees? How would they not apply to DOJ and FBI?
Agency heads made the DRP offers when they were made.
I have seen unconfirmed rumors that some small number of DRP offers were made by Bondi in DOJ, none by Kash in the FBI.
Patel publicly stated he took the Epstein files back from her“
I believe Patel said Epstein committed suicide. That is really alarming. The assertion is preposterous and insulting.
Do we have any way of finding out if those rumors are true?
I follow federal employee discussion groups on Reddit.
That is where the rumors come from—and eventually if true the confirmation from mass media sources that cover individual agencies.
If those rumors are true then the only justification for it that I can think of off the top of my head would be to try to catch them in treasonous acts and let them lead investigators to the whole group of treasonous conspirators.
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