Posted on 07/19/2016 7:08:40 PM PDT by Helicondelta
If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.
Christie, who is governor of New Jersey and leads Trump's White House transition team, said the campaign was drawing up a list of federal government employees to fire if Trump defeats Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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Trump's transition advisers fear that Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants, who have more job security than officials who have been politically appointed. This would allow officials to keep their jobs in a new, possibly Republican, administration, Christie said.
“It’s called burrowing," Christie said. "You take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up ... roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House.”
Christie was referring to pranks committed during the presidential transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush in 2001. During that period, some White House staffers removed the W key on computer keyboards and left derogatory signs and stickers in offices, according to a report by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress.
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Good. Good. Good.
Send them back to ISIS.
I’d like to see a fund et up to relocate all liberals to Liberia.
That’s the way you do it!
The never Trump’ers will be wetting their pants over this one.
Please Lord, guide this man safely into office.
He doesn’t need a new law. He can just do it.
Might want to look at the Dubya and Bill Clinton appointees too.
Amen!
He can just get around the laws by doing a 10% across the board shrinking. Fire the ‘new hires’ — all the ObamaBots.
The Democrats have been doing this for years, one of a number reasons that the federal government is infested with politically partisan liberals, even in agencies that have been traditionally “non-partisan”. The IRS is the perfect example.
Good.
Cut off many hydra-heads; dissolve departments bloated by new Obama hires; start refilling with veterans looking for work.
I’ll vote for him on that basis alone
Please, oh please.
Fire the incompetant bastards.
They burrow, as rodents do..
EPA head—fired, HUD head—fired, Ag dept. head—fired, Attorney General Lynch the Liar—fired, all head attorneys in every federal district—fired (just as BJ Bill Clinton did). Have the secret service round them all up on day one, bring them into the White House parking lot and fire all of them at one time.
While they are there, have all their computers seized and preserved for evidence against them. Lastly, let them walk home.
I think that’s connected to everything being under “Homeland Security”. Everyone under that umbrella became a Federal Employee. But I thought there was a catch...and they could be fired. don’t remember how it works.
Incompetent, not incompetant. No, really, I am not as dumb as a progressive .
that would be one long arse list, circle the globe at the equator three times and then some..
And remember all the military leaders 0bama has purged.
Get rid of the 0bama generals!!
...he’s got to...
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