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'This is different': Dozens of Trump loyalists 'burrowing'
Greenwire ^ | Dec 9, 2020

Posted on 12/09/2020 11:27:24 AM PST by 11th_VA

Dozens of Trump political appointees are petitioning to become part of the permanent bureaucracy — a process known as "burrowing" that is common at the end of administrations... (the rest of the story behind paywall)

(Excerpt) Read more at eenews.net ...


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Good news if true ...
1 posted on 12/09/2020 11:27:24 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Can’t read the article.

How ‘bout a Cliff Note.


2 posted on 12/09/2020 11:28:54 AM PST by Salamander (...Ragnarök...)
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To: 11th_VA

Good news if they stay loyal and don’t become corrupted...


3 posted on 12/09/2020 11:29:35 AM PST by citizen (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. John Adams)
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To: 11th_VA

Trump won a second term - someone let them know.


4 posted on 12/09/2020 11:31:33 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Salamander; 11th_VA

In short, a bunch of Trump appointed bureaucrats want to save their phony baloney jobs and perpetuate the Deep State.


5 posted on 12/09/2020 11:31:34 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (If there be WAR in the offing, let it begin HERE. With ME.)
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To: 11th_VA

Just like Obama’s hacks. Hope they succeed


6 posted on 12/09/2020 11:32:34 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: citizen

I think that’s a pipe dream. The only chance to stay is to join the other side.

I suspect the dozens are mostly 20 somethings that this may have been their 1st job and are scrambling for a landing spot.


7 posted on 12/09/2020 11:33:50 AM PST by WinMod70
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To: 11th_VA

Why is this good news? The permanent bureaucracy is why America is where it is today.


8 posted on 12/09/2020 11:36:43 AM PST by dinodino ( )
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"Good news if true ... "

Ditto.

9 posted on 12/09/2020 11:39:04 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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Why is this good news?

They could be future whistle blowers - that’s why ...

10 posted on 12/09/2020 11:39:22 AM PST by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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Dozens of Trump loyalists...

Dozens? Hardly. Maybe a half-dozen.

11 posted on 12/09/2020 11:40:31 AM PST by Spirochete
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To: 11th_VA

The can’t be fired but they can be promoted from their current positions to Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Water Coolers and Umbrella stands or something equally useless.


12 posted on 12/09/2020 11:42:12 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: 11th_VA

The Trump Administration should still be working to root out Obama staffers and continue to do so until they are all gone.


13 posted on 12/09/2020 11:45:41 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Gah.


14 posted on 12/09/2020 11:46:41 AM PST by Salamander (...Ragnarök...)
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To: dinodino

I’m a federal employee and a huge Trump fan. Not all feds are leftists or swampish. My conservative son just started a new federal job. I have several conservative federal employee friends.

Feds who work in the military or border security and other agencies like NASA and the FDIC etc also tend to be conservative (I work for a more “liberal” agency but I strive to faithfully represent the taxpayers’ interests always).

I can see why Trump appointees would like to become part of the permanent bureaucracy. That way they can have a lasting impact, actually. We feds do have to implement whatever regs/policies are enacted, but conservatives have a lot of common sense and excellence that can help mitigate poor policies (I’d say).

So it’s better to have those jobs filled by Trump people than by leftists, for many reasons.


15 posted on 12/09/2020 11:49:46 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: olivia3boys

My comment was about the “permanent bureaucracy.” If you eliminate Federal employment as a way of life, you eliminate concerns about loyalty and to a great extent, waste.


16 posted on 12/09/2020 11:51:12 AM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: 11th_VA

Conservatives need to step up and start getting federal jobs. We also need to step up and start working as journalists, professors, programmers for Big Tech, and public school teachers. We’ve ceded all of that to the left and look where that got us.


17 posted on 12/09/2020 11:52:16 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: dinodino

Most work in the federal sector is contracted out. The federal bureaucracy has shrunk and is much better than it used to be 25 years ago. The hiring is better.

(That said, and I don’t work for the CDC, but I wasn’t surprised at all when they screwed up those covid test kits in Jan-Feb.)

And in all honestly I don’t even believe in my agency’s mission at all, but I can help mitigate the damage.


18 posted on 12/09/2020 11:55:17 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“bureaucrats want to save their phony baloney jobs”

“Harrumph!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2oaTxPufOg


19 posted on 12/09/2020 11:56:32 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk; SERKIT

Ping.
Rules are only enforced on the thread of diecisiete.


20 posted on 12/09/2020 12:04:14 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (If there be WAR in the offing, let it begin HERE. With ME.)
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