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will reimplement “Schedule F,” an executive order he issued just days before the 2020 election and which was quickly rescinded by President Joe Biden that calls for completely reshaping hundreds of federal agencies.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.
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.
Yeah. Right.
He did such a good job of doing that when he was president.
Just ask Sessions. Or Barr.
Sure....
This was his motto last time and instead he tried to work with the swamp.
I seem to recall a lot of talk around here in 2016 that is was the last chance election. Also that a lot of people who were giving up on the system gave it one last chance for Trump.
You think he can win another "election"?
Like last time? C’mon man!!
Do pigs fly? Only if election fraud doesn’t happen.
Appearing with Lindsey Graham doesn’t reassure those of us who would like real and meaningful change.
Decapitate the Administrative State
Yep. Trump did try to make nice with the Swamp.
He surrounded himself with RINOs and Closet Never Trumpers.
Another bite at the apple? I thought Plan A was supposed to be the draining agent. Not only did it fail, it added to the swamp.
Only real fix is to repeal the 17th Amendment and eliminate the Senior Executive Service
After becoming aware of problems with 2020 elections, I admitted to myself that I had grossly underestimated the size of the swamp.
Trump had underestimated size of swamp too imo, but not as much as I, and probably many other patriots did.
And while I wanted Trump to be back in Oval Office ASAP, Trump instead smartly became a private citizen so that he could deal with the swamp, unhindered by constitutional separation of government branch powers.
The problem concerning expert deal-maker Trump is that while he demonstrates his expertise at the wheel of the “stunt car,” lots of patriots in the back seat seem to be carsick.
Gotta be honest with ya..
Just having him back and operating as he did would save our souls.
At this point he could just say “it’ll be like old times” and I’ll vote for him
His promises are no more or less valid than any politician’s. Just, for God sake, let’s just go back.
There are good reasons to vote for Trump in 2024 and I will do so if he gets the GOP nomination. Draining the swamp is not one of them - he had four years to do it and didn’t even come close.
And the 19th. It’s a clearly failed experiment, just like the 18th.
Name a recent POTUS who was as successful as Trump? Look at what Trump accomplished:
Gas price per gallon was about $2.30;
Inflation about 1.4%, mortgage rates were half of what they are now;
Unemployment was low before Covid and before Blue Governors shut everything down and we were in the midst of a V-shape recovery until January 22, 2021;
Tax decrease; tax laws promoted small businesses as well as large;
US enjoyed energy independence - No Green Agenda, no war on energy, No Paris Treaty;
No war in Ukraine, no threat of nuclear war, NATO paid its way;
China was quiet and we were winning the trade war;
US companies were bringing home the jobs due to well executed tax treatments;
Peace in the Middle East aka Abraham Accords; US Embassy moved to Jerusalem; and Iran was isolated.
Got three non-left “I don't know what a woman is” Supreme Court Justices on the bench allowing Roe vs Wade to be overturned.
Who the heck can accomplish the above in four years while being impeached twice and investigated by Obama's Weaponized Agencies?
Due to simple minded voters, elections are allowed to be stolen, idiot Democrat and RINO leadership goes on without question and Freepers dump on Trump.
Just ask Sessions. Or Barr.
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DURING TRUMPS PRESIDENCY, RIGHT UP TO THE LAST DAY, WHICH ESSENTIALLY WAS JAN. 6th, HE WAS OPERATING UNDER THE FATAL FLAW THAT THE GOP WAS COMPOSED OF PEOPLE OF HONOR AND INTEGRITY, WHEN IN FACT, FROM SESSIONS TO BARR, MCCONNELL TO PENCE, HE WAS SURROUNDED BY VIPERS PUT IN PLACE BY THE UNI-PARTY SWAMP, SPECIFICALLY TO MISLEAD AND BETRAY HIM.
HE’LL NEVER MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN. HE’LL NEVER TRUST ANYONE AGAIN. THE SWAMP MUST BE DRAINED AND THE DENIZENS EXTERMINATED, BY ANY AND EVERY MEANS NECESSARY, OR THE US of A IS LOST. A TERRIBLE LOSS TO PATRIOTS AND MANKIND.
NO JOKE!
DITTOS! BRAVO! ALL HONOR TO YOU!
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