Posted on 07/22/2022 10:49:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
If reelected in 2024, Trump is planning to cut about 50,000 administrative state employees to rein in unelected technocrats in federal government agencies that have great influence over policies impacting American workers, according to the outlet.
“The impact could go well beyond typical conservative targets such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service,” the report explained. “Trump allies are working on plans that would potentially strip layers at the Justice Department — including the FBI, and reaching into national security, intelligence, the State Department and the Pentagon, sources close to the former president say.”
The term administrative state specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies exercising power to create and enforce their own rules.
The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not created by the Constitution. Nearly 2 million federal government employees in federal agencies make up the administrative state. Trump has referred to the administrative state as the “swamp.”
Before Trump left office in 2021, he signed an executive order (EO) to reclassify federal government employees into Schedule F, which would have allowed the president to enhance accountability and job performance within the bureaucratic agencies.
“Unfortunately, the Government’s current performance management is inadequate, as recognized by Federal workers themselves,” the EO reads. “For instance, the 2016 Merit Principles Survey reveals that less than a quarter of Federal employees believe their agency addresses poor performers effectively.”
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DeSantis would be a great President but you have a point about pugilism. That’s the basic problem Trump had during his term in office...he expected people to do their job.
Instead we had military commanders openly bragging about how they misinformed Trump on troop levels in Syria and Birx now admitting she and Fauci simply made up the science on closures, masking and social distancing.
Nobody working for the government should get automatic tenure, we don’t in the private sector.
If it is DeSantis in 2024 or 2028 he needs to spend time with Trump to learn about the problems with the civil service (and some in the military) undermining elected officials.
Simple. Just order the GSA to terminate 75% of all utilities contracts to government buildings “peanut buttered” equally across most agencies. Continue the fund DOD, VA, and National park utilities.
That he legally can do, by executive order. Those useless Democrats still have to report for work but their buildings will have no power, water, trash collection, janitor services, or sewer. The swamp will leave of their own accord.
You might be surprised at how many low level govt employees would welcome a purge of managers and executives..
This news story is designed to scare the government drones to get out to vote, and to vote for the administrative state candidates. The dems need everyone in their slimy base to vote.
That is all.
“The Kenyanesian Usurper stuffed our government, ALL agencies, FULL of communists.”
So did both Bushes and Clinton.
Anyone who cannot be fired outright should be immediately reassigned to the most remote parts of the Great Plains...down a remote gravel road in a metal quonset hut with no A/C, no cell phone service and no Internet.
I'm guessing he's saying this because Nixon was really hated and hounded by the democrats until they scalped him. But really Nixon was nothing like Trump. Nixon was a lifelong insider that loved, loved, loved big government. He gave us massive new agencies that are a curse now.
The left hated Nixon for one reason: he took down Alger Hiss. Hiss was their golden boy, the Trojan Horse they thought they could install into the highest office and fundamentally change America. Then Nixon proved he was a soviet agent and that was over instantly. And the left never forgave him for it.
“... will include an effort to purge ...”
I hope publicizing this effort will gain votes for him.
He would be like King Canute ordering the tide back out. He has to have an AG to yield the threat of prosecution if no cooperation.
Always remember what you “decide you can do” (meaning outside due process!) the “enemy” (the Rats!) can do to you later (And no morality constrains them!)!
Or do you think after say a return of Trump and even 8 years of DeSantis will mean no more Rat administrations.
If you think that what are you smoking? People will always at some point be persuaded to choose “magic” over reality! Particularly if they’ve had it good for a while.
I would argue that Trump is more Reagan than Nixon.
In terms of how much sheer hatred the Dims have for Trump, Trump is more Nixon than Reagan. The Dims hated Nixon ever since Nixon brought down Alger Hiss for perjury (too bad the statute of limitations had expired for treason) and that hatred exploded when Nixon ran for office and won. The Dims didn't hate the Republican presidents after Nixon (Ford, Reagan, or the Bushes) with the passion they hated Nixon ... until Trump.
Backfilling.
Freeze promotions of all U.S. military officers above O-6. Re-assign all the flag officers in the Pentagon to Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Re-open the abandoned Adak Naval Air Facility and house these insubordinate, perfumed princes/SOB’s there on the vacant base. They will love the climate of the Aleutians.
But then I have to ask myself, will he?
Nixon in many ways was typical of the Republicans of that era. They didn’t see anything fundamentally flawed with FDR Big Government, they just thought it could be managed cheaper and more efficiently. Let me add as did most of the voting public including Republican voters.
FDR-style Big Government won WWII and saved us from the Depression. “Voters” commonly thought this and defended it with certainty. The “voters” were possibly right in the first instance, dead wrong in the second (but the consequences unfortunately wouldn’t be immediate!).
His biggest mistake was trusting the Republican party!
Aside from the outright opposition he faced from the Republican House and Republican Senate, there was all that *great advice* (/s) he received from the GOP while making appointments
“I hope”
As the saying goes, hope in one hand...
Campaign season is fun. People can get high on hopium all day long at attack those meanys that bring up that pesky thing called reality.
I think also since he was not a politician he did not fully comprehend how the “system’ worked. It will be very different next time
Clearly a typo in the story
He means 500,000 right?
That platform plus eliminate all of Biden’s EOs will get him elected.
“If reelected in 2024, Trump is planning to cut about 50,000 administrative state employees to rein in unelected technocrats in federal government agencies”
I think President Trump has learned well from his time in exile... :-)
I believe he can and will keep his promise, too. He earned his credibility.
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