Posted on 01/29/2025 3:03:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
With a blizzard of executive orders, President Donald Trump has jump-started an extraordinary plan to transform the federal government into a leaner operation packed with his loyalists.
The fine print of those directives reveals how shrewdly the new administration is maneuvering — and sometimes outright ignoring — the arcane laws, rules and regulations that have long protected the civil service of 2.3 million from a political takeover.
Trump has skirted Biden-era rules by essentially declaring them unlawful, used probationary periods to place masses of civil servants in limbo and issued a memo lifting restrictions on hiring temporary political appointees to replace thousands of career employees. The White House has even declared that Trump can overrule a post-Watergate law to summarily fire senior executives and career prosecutors, citing a sweeping claim of executive authority.
Late Friday, when Trump ousted 17 federal watchdogs, he disregarded a statute requiring him to first provide 30 days’ notice and a performance-related justification to Congress.
White House directives also have instructed federal agencies to seek ways to bring employees back to the office even if union contracts guarantee work-from-home protections and announced plans to reinstate assessments for hiring that were thrown out by the Carter administration after lawsuits claimed they were discriminatory. And acting personnel officials have widely expanded the use of paid leave to push workers out — despite a bipartisan law seeking to curtail its use.
The executive actions, absent any legislation from the GOP-controlled Congress, already have had far-reaching effects, even if they face potential legal challenges. Thousands of staff in diversity and inclusion programs are facing layoffs as soon as this week, thousands of other job offers have been rescinded in a government-wide hiring freeze and gaping senior-level holes remain at numerous agencies because...
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BS. Political was what the LAST guy did and you covered for him!
The pot calling the kettle black.
Like Leticia James and Fannie Willis?
What the Marxist State Media and Demonic-rats are really mad about is that Trump has learned the rules and is using them against them.
Take a moment to consider how Biden and many governers, congressmen, cabinet members etc. are all guilty of aiding and abetting illegals enterring the United States in violation of clear, federal law.
Here's an excerpt:
"Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).
Alien Smuggling -- Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(i) makes it an offense for any person who -- knowing that a person is an alien, to bring to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien."
Trump is stretching laws to make the Federal Government more political?
That is extremely rich coming from the Washington Post.
Back in January of 2017 (as Trump was preparing to take office in less than two weeks) the Washington Post prints a David Ignatius article using leaked data about Flynn phone calls (Leaked by Office of Net Assessment (ONA) Director COL James Baker)
Excerpt from the Washington Post Article:
What discussions has the Trump team had with Russian officials about future relations? Trump said Wednesday that his relationship with President Vladimir Putin is “an asset, not a liability.” Fair enough, but until he’s president, Trump needs to let Obama manage U.S.-Russia policy.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s choice for national security adviser, cultivates close Russian contacts. He has appeared on Russia Today and received a speaking fee from the cable network, which was described in last week’s unclassified intelligence briefing on Russian hacking as “the Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet.”
According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials as well as other measures in retaliation for the hacking.
What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions? The Logan Act (though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to influence a foreign government about “disputes” with the United States.
Was its spirit violated? The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
As an aside, ONA Director COL Baker had lunch regularly with Washington Post Reporter David Ignatius. Baker is believed to be the person who illegally leaked the transcript of Mr. Flynn’s calls to Ignatius.”
As an aside, there was a whistleblower at the Pentagon ONA under COL James Baker named Adam Lovinger (a good summary can be found at this article in the Washington Times titled: Adam Lovinger, Pentagon analyst, lost security clearance after Stefan Halper complaints who had four charges filed against him by his boss Col. James Baker. The NCIS report on Lovinger’s conduct finds no reason for Whistleblower to be fired, but the word “not” is excluded in the documentation.
In the fall of 2016, Adam Lovinger went to his bosses, pointing out that large sums of money were being spent on suspicious things, specifically, large sums of money in the area of nearly half a million dollars being sent to Stefan Halper, an infamous figure in the Russiagate Hoax who is famous for four key things in the Russiagate Hoax:
According to Flynn’s attorney at that time (who found the Brady material that torpedoed the government case) Sidney Powell in an interview by Dan Bongino aired on 5/22/2020, noted that Flynn and COL Baker were very close, and met behind closed doors on a regular basis. So Baker knew what Flynn knew. About everything.
And he knew how dangerous that knowledge Flynn had was.
As a result of his reporting this mysterious money being sent to Stefan Helper (which was Lovinger's job to know) Lovinger's Security privileges were stripped from him on 5/1/2017 requiring him to leave the NSC and go back to the Pentagon doing a lower level job. Baker then reclassified the job Lovinger was then working at to have requirements that Lovinger did not meet.
So, when I read all this, with the POS David Ignatius knee-deep in this effort to take out Flynn, and the Washington Post in to their knees as well, it makes me want to puke.
And let's not forget the article they published in the Washington Post “FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit” by Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller which was intended to put Flynn at ease for his setup the next day on 1/24/2017 when Strzok and Pienta went unannounced to the White House to set him up, the question being asked beforehand by Bill Priestap (in a handwritten note) "What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?" This article from the Washington Post is thought by Dan Bongino to be a pattern of direct media collusion to put the candidate at ease for the interview the next day.
So did every democrat president.
So what's new with that?
I would expect him, too after being stabbed in the back last time by non-loyalists, aka TRAITORS and INSURRECTIONISTS.
The WA Compost is full of it.
Bizarre, and not from a credible publication.
You just gave me a great idea.
That’s why it is posted under the topic “humor.”
I doubt there is a copyright on that logo. Smile.
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