Posted on 02/23/2025 4:13:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
It’s been an exhausting four weeks for anyone watching the administration’s effort to reshape, modernize, and clean up the federal government. It’s been an avalanche of Executive Orders, confirmation hearings, court battles, and staff reshufflings and removals. “The choice was between a slow canoe ride through more of the same, or a roller coaster. Americans chose the roller coaster.”
A lot of things have been made clear. The most significant is that as things were going, the roles of the president and Congress had been largely diminished in recent years. Unelected bureaucrats in the U.S. Treasury were in charge of disbursing the money allocated by the federal budget to bureaucrats elsewhere who shaped the laws and policies in a manner making it almost impossible to audit. Nothing could have been more fake. A return to constitutional governance was possible only if the system was altered, as it very rapidly is.
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process). In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.
There has been a substantial change in staffing among agencies and departments, among these:
At the Department of Defense, enlistments are up and woke is dismantled: Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Naval Chief, the Vice Chief of the Air Force and the Judge Advocate Generals for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. There is no possibility of a strong defense when the military is more concerned with pronouns than battle readiness, diverting military funds for expensive transitioning of recruits
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It has been an interesting first month.
Interesting—and INCREDIBLY ENCOURAGING!
Not exhausting
More like energizing. As in what amazing thing will happen today.
This makes me sad
I mean the clock is ticking
we only have 98% of his term to go
we better get to work to get more done
So many sociopathic criminals...so little time. I want to se handcuffs, frog-marching to the awaiting paddy wagon, incarceration, trials and sentences carried out.
No more “let’s move on”. Criminals need to answer for their perfidy.
I’m glad the idiot Nigerian Prince from treasury is gone. Who would approve him? And if so, why not a Congolese?
Bkmk
The best EO I’ve seen so far is the email to list achievements this week. What a great way to get rid of ghost and non-essential employees.
- Watched porn all day....X5
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