“Trust Sessions.”
Axios has hit the panic button.
Prepare for the other mockingbird media to follow quickly.
I hope he, or the next Repub will eliminate the Dept of Ed, FBI, CIA, and DOJ to START.
Wow. If a person wishes to trim waste in the American Federal Government, then he has numerous opportunities. Simply cancel funding to thousands of departments, such as NPR, NEA, FBI, etc. Larry Elder for advice.
Start by firing about 90% of the senior executive service and then the top 1000 of the political appointees.
If only this were true, but being reported by Axios it’s probably Fake News.
They say that like it’s a baaadd thing.🙄
| ACTIVE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES | 2021 Actual | | 2022 Estimate | | 2023 Estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Branch Civilian | |||
| All Agencies, Excluding Postal Service | 2,183,067 | 2,206,257 | 2,288,566 |
| Postal Service * | 580,736 | 566,431 | 560,217 |
| Subtotal, Executive Branch Civilian | 2,763,803 | 2,772,688 | 2,848,783 |
| Executive Branch Uniformed Military | |||
| Department of Defense ** | 1,406,795 | 1,394,943 | 1,371,769 |
| Department of Homeland Security (USCG) | 41,493 | 42,510 | 42,967 |
| Commissioned Corps (DOC, EPA, HHS) | 6,302 | 6,345 | 6,438 |
| Subtotal, Uniformed Military | 1,454,590 | 1,443,798 | 1,421,174 |
| Total, Executive Branch | 4,218,393 | 4,216,486 | 4,269,957 |
| Legislative Branch *** | 31,645 | 34,516 | 35,240 |
| Judicial Branch | 33,041 | 33,775 | 34,556 |
| TOTAL | 4,283,079 | 4,284,777 | 4,339,753 |
Source: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43590
* Includes the Postal Rate Commission.
** Includes activated Guard and Reserve members on active duty. Does not include full-time support (Active Guard & Reserve (AGRSs)) paid from Reserve Component appropriations.
*** FTE data not available for the Senate (positions filled were used for actual year and extended at same level).
...doesn’t look like draining the swamp to me, more like changing the flavor of the water...
If I was going to drain the swamp, lessee:
1) eliminate stare decisis. Instead of requiring judges to follow the law, require them to do justice. Make justice the goal of the justice system. I know, what a thought, right?
2) eliminate the teaching of law. No more lawyers. You got a problem? You tell us about it. Probably unconstitutional but we could make it so.
3) constitutional amendment: reduce the size of the federal gov’t by 10% a year until it’s down to 1/10 the size it is now.
4) eliminate the President and the Congress. If somebody at the head of an agency (if there are any left) retires, have the replacement run for office. Let the people declare war, if somebody does something to us. We’d have to have a mechanism, but techs could think that up.
...I know, there are problems with all these ideas. But imagine how much more peaceful our lives could be, without all that government on top. If there are decisions to be made, let the people make them. Simplify, simplify, simplify!!!
The word radical comes from the Latin word for root, meaning “rising from or going to a root.”
A radical government reform would rip out the administrative state by its roots. A new, Constitutional structure can be established to replace the current dinosaur.
This proposal only affects Excepted Service employees, not Competitive Service.
Can he fire them, if so, why didn’t he fire them the first time?
About three times now from different sources.
I hope Trump picks a better crowd to surround himself with this time around than the gaggle of imbeciles, back stabbers, and deep state stooges that he brought in during his first administration.
But then I have to ask myself, will he?
He had an opportunity to radically alter the EPA when he put Scotty Pruitt in charge and gave him the green light to take a flamethrower to the countless job-killing EPA regulations but liberals, who believe the EPA belongs to them regardless of who is in the White House raised a fit so President Trump, always trying to please those who loath him, demanded Pruitt's resignation.
Scotty Pruitt was the most MAGA person Trump put in charge of anything and Trump sent him packing after liberals cried.
It is a serious error by Trump (if he is really running) to say ANYTHING about what happens at 12:01 pm on 1/20/25.