Posted on 01/31/2025 2:28:23 PM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Jeff Lyash — the highest-paid federal employee with a compensation package of $10.5 million per year — abruptly announced Friday that he was retiring 11 days after the return to office of President Trump, who during his first term slammed Lyash’s “ridiculous” pay and vowed to fire him.
“Sounds like Lyash got DOGE’d,” a senior administration official told The Post, referring to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative to rein in allegedly wasteful federal spending.
A TVA rep denied that Lyash was departing either in response to or to get ahead of pressure from Trump’s team after six years in the job.
“The answer is no,” spokeswoman Melissa Greene told The Post. “When Jeff was hired in 2019, he told the TVA Board of Directors that he would let them know when he was seriously considering retirement. Jeff kept his word, beginning those conversations with the Board last fall.”
In his good-bye message, Lyash wrote: “While I’m looking forward to my next chapter, spending more time with family, grandchildren, and friends, I will miss our TVA team and the relationships we’ve built across this region.”
“The true strength of TVA is its people – an experienced and passionate workforce who work every day to make a difference,” Lyash added.
Trump tore into Lyash during the final year of the 45th presidency, saying in August 2020 that “we’re getting rid of him in one form or another. Either the board’s gonna do it, or we’re gonna do it, but he’s gone.”
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Voracious government.
I would say yes.
https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/tva-retire-coal-fired-units-and-build-energy-complex
More natural gas-fired plants than renewables on the face of it - but the Watermelons [Green on the outside, Red on the inside] see natural gas as just an intemediate phase after they get rid of coal. Then it will be time to get rid of natural gas.
Me: There needs to be a law pass reducing all federal employee pay by 40%.
Based on what? Be specific.
You: Based on what? Be specific.
Me: Based on the fact that that federal employees are paid way more than identical jobs in the private sector. How can you be a “public servant” when you make more than all the peon peers?
I take it you work for the feds
Private jobs paid more but the company could go bankrupt tomorrow and you would be out on the street.
A worker is worth his hire. And his edumacation.
Your broad brush betrays your not understanding the situation.
Re: Fed workers being paid 40% more than comparable jobs in the private sector. That is true with lower tier jobs, but falls off the higher they advance in the pay scale. In the highly technical jobs, workers earn 2 - 3x what a Fed gets paid.
Fun fact: not every job has a private sector counterpart.
Fun fact #2: Explain to me how you get to decide how much someone gets paid. From each according to their ability to each according to their need? Out of your little red book?
Do tell.
Are you or are you not a federal employee? If you are, live in fear.
Schadenfreude 🤣
Somehow the Corp of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation manage to run similar facilities and programs with far less compensation for their executives.
You didn’t answer my question, n00b. Where do you get off deciding how much somebody gets paid? Without regards to what job somebody has or what training/education they had to get tonqualify for the job?
You’re talking out yer butt.
I asked if you were federal employee or not and your lack of answer tells me that you are. You are a leech, a parasite, nothing but a weight around the neck of every American. I hope that President Trump's firing spree finds you and puts you back into the private sector
Your abject ignorance is showing, pal. Stop typing. You’re embarassing yourself.
Your lack of response to my question “are you are a federal employee?” means that you are absolutely a sponging parasite bureaucrat.
I hope the Trump Administration finds you and boots you to the private sector.
“Public servants” my arse.
You keep avoiding the question, are you a federal or government employee?
And you keep avoiding the question, what gives you the right to determine what someone is paid, and belittle someone who is paid more than what you think is adequate? What if they actually earn it??
To grind down everyone to the same level, like a dull pencil, and smear those who happen to work for Fedzilla just because they work there, is mindless and what socialists and fascists do. Your two-minute hate is unseemly and grimy.
There are conservatives in government. Quite a few post here.
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What gives me the right? The fact that I’m an American citizen, that’s what gives me the right.
Thanks for exposing yourself as just another federal flunky.
When it comes to salaries paid by our tax money, all of us have the right to determine what someone is paid.
Consider the job, the training you might need to have, what the going rate for a job like that actually is, etc.
How would you determine that? Sincere question.
You’re no longer worth my time.
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