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Trump Puts Schumer and Pelosi in a Brilliant Vise Grip (He's a sly old Donald alert)
American Thinker ^ | January 19, 2019 | Jim Davis

Posted on 01/19/2019 4:22:54 AM PST by Zakeet

The federal government shutdown has presented a unique opportunity for President Donald Trump to clear out the deadwood in the federal bureaucracy, saving U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars in salaries, perks, and rented office space for people who aren't doing anything productive.

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A high-ranking Trump administration official wrote four days ago in the Daily Caller that the shutdown enables Trump to get rid of people like this. As members of the Senior Executive Service, many of them can't be fired unless they're convicted of a felony, or of committing some flagrant misconduct.

... SES employees cannot be furloughed (laid off) under normal circumstances, but they can be removed during a Reduction in Force (RIF) when their positions are found to be unnecessary.

In the D.C. article, our unnamed administration official explains that roughly 80% of the federal work force in many departments, including his own, simply don't do anything. They plan shopping trips and vacations. They send out résumés for better-paying positions, perhaps without realizing that any new employer might expect them to actually get some work done.

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... on Day 30 of the shutdown, a clause is triggered in these federal employment contracts that enables RIF. The Office of Personnel Management oversees the RIF process.

... Roughly 800,000 federal employees could be permanently removed under this plan, with an annual savings of roughly $80 billion in salaries alone. Including the pensions; the government vehicles; and the rented office space, furniture, and equipment, it could be $150 billion.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bureaucracy; pelosi; schumer; shutdown
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The Donald is playing Chimp and Nasty just as masterfully as Itzhak Perlman plays his Stradivarius ...

1 posted on 01/19/2019 4:22:54 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Swamp draining 101.


2 posted on 01/19/2019 4:24:45 AM PST by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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To: Zakeet

JUST!

DO!

IT!


3 posted on 01/19/2019 4:29:42 AM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: exnavy

So this is how you pass by the protection of the illegal government union hold, brilliant! I would imagine most of the 800,000 employees are family and friends of rat politicians


4 posted on 01/19/2019 4:30:59 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Taxman

Love it.


5 posted on 01/19/2019 4:31:15 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Zakeet

Post of the Day!


6 posted on 01/19/2019 4:32:28 AM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Zakeet

Is tomorrow day 30?


7 posted on 01/19/2019 4:33:02 AM PST by MulberryDraw (Dah Dah Dit Dah)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

We’ll find out what he’s doing at 3:00 PM today!

Making America Great Again!


8 posted on 01/19/2019 4:34:14 AM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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Well.... there’s the wall, er... barrier right there. And then some!


9 posted on 01/19/2019 4:36:48 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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To: Zakeet

The savings from their perks will pay for a giant wall and then some.


10 posted on 01/19/2019 4:37:26 AM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Zakeet

Zero-based budgeting.

Make each one of them show their value-added or see-ya.


11 posted on 01/19/2019 4:38:43 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Including the ones who watch porn on our computers all day?


12 posted on 01/19/2019 4:42:03 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: All

I enjoy that guy more and more with every day that goes by ... !!!

13 posted on 01/19/2019 4:42:25 AM PST by Zakeet (If laws could stop evil, then why are there still Clintons?)
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To: P.O.E.

Make everyone of them go through this process. Get rid of half of them.


14 posted on 01/19/2019 4:47:45 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

This process;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OvQIGDg4I


15 posted on 01/19/2019 4:48:09 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Zakeet

Roughly 800,000 federal employees could be permanently removed under this plan, with an annual savings of roughly $80 billion in salaries alone. Including the pensions; the government vehicles; and the rented office space, furniture, and equipment, it could be $150 billion.

150B. That’s 30X Wall money!


16 posted on 01/19/2019 4:50:30 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Zakeet

L8r


17 posted on 01/19/2019 4:51:39 AM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Zakeet
Roughly 800,000 federal employees could be permanently removed under this plan, with an annual savings of roughly $80 billion in salaries alone. Including the pensions; the government vehicles; and the rented office space, furniture, and equipment, it could be $150 billion.

Happy Days Are Hear Again...

18 posted on 01/19/2019 4:53:24 AM PST by GOPJ (Anyone remember MSNBC bimbos crying about out of work steel workers or coal miners or anyone?)
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To: Zakeet

You mean he’s not listening to the fatuous nincompoop, GW Bush? Why, Bush was out last night making certain the press got photos of him giving pizza to his unpaid Secret Service contingent and criticizing Trump for the shutdown - he never said a word of criticism of Obama in eight years, Clinton was his “brother” and he didn’t support the nominee of his own party. Instead, I expected him to be looking for nonexistant WMDs and yelling about “they could hit San Francisco or sumpin’ along the West Coast if we don’t invade Iraq”.


19 posted on 01/19/2019 4:56:11 AM PST by laconic
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To: jazminerose

Including the ones who watch porn on our computers all day?

Related: Pornhub Reports Traffic Spike In Washington As Shutdown Drags On

20 posted on 01/19/2019 4:56:29 AM PST by Zakeet (If laws could stop evil, then why are there still Clintons?)
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