It would take longer than your lifetime’s span to interview every federal employee.
The downside is
<><>they’ll all be collecting mega-pensions
<><>getting Cadillac healthcare and life insurance......
<><>plus no-show six-figure govt salaries.
“What are you doing right now?”
Answering stupid questions now let me get back to work.
Why delay?
WINNING !
The crap those govt employees pull is amazing. They file paperwork claiming years of work they never did to boost their pensions and get to 30 years retirement faster, for example.
When Reagan was elected I kidded one, “What are you going to do now?” “Presidents come and go, but we are always here” was his reply.
Great!
My day 1 action:
Fire EVERYONE I have the ability to.
They may reapply for the fewer jobs I allow afterwards. The useless and political hacks (same thing) will not be back.
Told this to Ted Cruz in early 2016.
No downside.
I hope it’s 10s or even 100s of thousands.
“Visit every office, every agency, every anteroom that contained employees that report to the Executive Branch.”
There won’t be anyone there. 94% of fed workers are goofing off at home. The easiest thing to do is a reduction in force with heavy emphasis at the management level. I would start at 10%. Monitor vital services. Then increase the RIF until you strike the bone.
ESPECIALLY! ICE and border patrol agents who are still shuttling illegal aliens in right now. At this point they could stop; by the time they got fired Trump would be in.
Is that supposed to be a threat?
Interviewing federal employee: “What are you doing right now?”
“Sorry—if I told you I would have to shoot you. My job is top secret special access compartmentalized and you have no need to know.”
Interview continues: “Wait a minute. There is nothing on your employment documents that say you are involved in a top secret project.”
“Yeah—well the nature of my employment and the name of the project is special access compartmentalized as well. Thanks for playing, sucka!”
Lol.
I guess that’s because they figure it’ll make it harder for the new AG to find them.
Mas guilt, I’m surprised, I didn’t think they were even capable of feeling guilt...
I know people who said they would quit their FedGov job if Trump won. Let’s see what happens.
Implement mandatory 40 hour per week IN THE OFFICE rule and DOGE would be off to a good start.
Then follow the Twitter model.
That would take several lifetimes.