Posted on 04/11/2025 5:12:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I think that, by now, it’s pretty clear that the Trump administration has a set of priorities that focus on illegal immigration, international trade, and removing absolutely anything that falls under the category of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Everyone knows this. It’s obvious.
Which is why it’s hilarious to me that the acting head of the IRS quit because of an agreement to share data with immigration officials.
Melanie Krause, the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), will be resigning after barely six weeks on the job, in advance of the agency sharing taxpayer data with federal immigration authorities, according to The New York Times.
Krause has served as the acting agency commissioner for barely six weeks, as the third person to hold the job at the tax collection agency this year. Two current and one former IRS employees told CNN that Krause informed her staff on Tuesday that she was resigning.
One source said the data-sharing agreement was one factor in Krause’s decision to leave, and that the final agreement was different than the last draft Krause was involved in. The source said that other reasons Krause wanted to leave included the exodus of other senior executive career employees over the past few days as well as the direction the IRS is heading in.
Now, in the interest of fairness, there’s some indication that the final agreement was different from the last one she worked on, so it might have been a case of that really being the issue as opposed to anything else, but considering what else we’ve seen from the bureaucracy this year, I’m skeptical.
Honestly, this reminds me of the attorney who quit the DOJ because she supposedly didn’t want to put Mel Gibson’s name on a list of people who would get their gun rights.
I find it interesting how many people would rather be without a job than do as they’re instructed by the Trump administration. Then they can go on and pretend to be the victim because they couldn’t do what their boss told them to do.
If I don’t do what my bosses tell me to do, I get fired.
That goes for everyone else.
It’s only people in the federal government who seem to think that they’re above answering to anyone. They want to do whatever it is, then when they get fired for any reason at all, they run to a judge to block it.
Or they quit when directed to do something they don’t like, then preen about like they’re a martyr.
But they forget that most of us would either get fired or be forced to quit our own jobs if we didn’t want to do what was asked of us. While we might get high fives from our friends or comment like, “I’d have quit, too,” no one beyond our circle of intimates would give a damn.
Yes, I find it a strange hill to choose to die on, also. Don’t get me wrong on that. Being upset over not being able to protect illegal immigrants’ tax records—if there are any for some of them—and quitting a high-paying job like that seems odd to me.
But everyone can see that. No one needs me to point it out to them.
The fact that there are so many people in the federal workforce who think they’re special, that they’re better than the rest of America, is something that needs to be pointed out.
They need to know they’re not. They’re workers in a machine, and they’re just as replaceable or expendable as anyone else. Many of them are more so than the rest of us because there are just so many of them currently in place doing absolutely nothing.
And we need to do something about the judiciary that seems to think that one judge can block literally everything the Trump administration tries to do, including downsizing the federal workforce. Especially since we all know that no federal judge would look out for us like that.
Look, my thing is that we’re all supposed to be equal before the law, but the status quo is that some animals are more equal than others, and that’s a big freaking problem.
The fact that some people are celebrating Krause as if she made some heroic stand is stupid. It’s just as stupid as it was when they lashed out about everyone else getting canned or quitting because they didn’t like what they were instructed to do.
They’re not special. They’re Americans who deserve no more job security than anyone else.
If they want to keep their jobs, then they need to earn it every single day, just like the rest of us have to.
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It shows that her job was more about political patronage than commitment to Rule of Law and the country.
Bkmk
About the head, it was near treason to not put it up on a pike.
PBondi — you are failing. Might as well have Garrick back.
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