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in diversity and inclusion programs are facing layoffs as soon as this week, thousands of other job offers have been rescinded in a government-wide hiring freeze and gaping senior-level holes remain at numerous agencies because...
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More garbage from a Washington Post ditzy broad without a clue.
Hey guys, sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
And they haven't a clue.
More PROJECTION from the LIB MEDIA and DEMS!
Winning….
The WaPo hack doesn’t want the swamp drained. Get with the program Lisa.
These liberal papers will pay good money to writers who can twist sentences into pretzel to explain why doing the best job for the least amount of money is evil.
They write this crap as if we all didn’t just watch the left do what it did for 4 years.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO FIRE ANY EMPLOYEE-——
YOU GIVE THEM PAY IN LIEU OF NOTICE
YOU NEVER — EVER LET THEM STICK AROUND TO SABOTAGE ANYTHING
I thought Dr. Evil (Bezos) was going to make it unbiased.
“President Donald Trump has jump-started an extraordinary plan to transform the federal government into a leaner operation packed with his loyalists.”
I don’t about “loyalists”, But I don’t think he recovered yet
from all the stabbings and assassination attempts from the Democrat ruled and run Federal and state governments, so he is being cautious.
4? Seriously? We have one hardcore generation needing serious help and a couple on the fence. This hasn’t happened overnight.
No union contract should extend beyond the term of the President that signed them. Legislatures in the United States are not bound by the legislatures that came before them and neither is the executive. The very – definition of an executive is to have power over his employees to make sure that his agenda gets implemented. The civil service thinks it is the fourth branch of government and it needs to be humiliated, defanged and crushed.
It’s always projection. It’s sickening because it works with stupid people and propaganda media.
WaPo articles are little more than RAT confessions.
Have they not read Article II of the Constitution?
“ The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows…”
More political? LOL
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