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‘Self-inflicted wound’: Pentagon comptroller warns Trump against mass firings of federal employees
Breaking Defense ^ | November 19, 2024 at 11:14 AM | Michael Marrow

Posted on 11/20/2024 9:27:08 AM PST by Fish Speaker

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s stated plans to tee up the firings of thousands of federal employees has shaken many in the career workforce and is damaging productivity, the Pentagon’s chief accountant warned today.

Mike McCord, the Pentagon comptroller, also predicted the current continuing resolution would stretch until March and the fiscal 2026 budget will not arrive before April or May.

Near the end of his first term in office, Trump signed an executive order reclassifying thousands of government employees — often the type who typically remain in place regardless of presidential administration — as new “Schedule F” staff without employment protections, essentially making them at-will workers who are easier to fire. Critics lambasted the move as politicizing the bureaucracy and an attack on civil servants amid calls by Trump to purge the “deep state.”

Now, as Trump prepares to return to the White House, critics fear the policy could make a return after it was quickly rescinded by President Joe Biden. Trump has campaigned on reviving the Schedule F approach.

“I would certainly hope that the next administration can resist the temptation to [impose] self-inflicted wounds on the workforce with the Schedule F-type approach,” McCord said today in a keynote address at the Professional Services Council Vision 2024 Federal Market Forcecast conference.

“I can tell you that the career workforce is worried — those that I talked to already in anticipation of what might happen,” McCord said. “It’s not helpful for productivity.”

“There’s a lot of hard-working, dedicated people in the Defense Department, and if you work with them instead of trying to stomp them, I think that we will get to a much better place,” McCord said.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bs; budgets; carllevin; cr; enemieslist; insurrectionist; michaeljmccord; mikemccord; newprograms; pentagon; schedulef; seditionist; trump; whinging
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Besides the whinging about Trump cleaning house, there's some interesting info on how running on CRs interferes with the military's ability to fund and plan new programs.
1 posted on 11/20/2024 9:27:08 AM PST by Fish Speaker
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To: Fish Speaker

So who elected the comptroller?


2 posted on 11/20/2024 9:28:11 AM PST by Hattie
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To: Fish Speaker

Mike McCord you say? Fire his butt first.


3 posted on 11/20/2024 9:29:04 AM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: Fish Speaker

WHAT “productivity” could this idiot possibly be referring to?
The very best thing we can DO is “damage” the civil “workforce” and shut it down.


4 posted on 11/20/2024 9:29:23 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Fish Speaker

did mike just put himself on the short list?

oops


5 posted on 11/20/2024 9:29:49 AM PST by joshua c
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To: Fish Speaker
Critics lambasted the move as politicizing the bureaucracy

The Bee missed this story. How?

6 posted on 11/20/2024 9:30:35 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Fish Speaker

Every federal employee deemed ‘nonessential’ during government shutdowns should be fired.


7 posted on 11/20/2024 9:31:02 AM PST by wny
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To: Fish Speaker

The arrogance. The intoxication of perceived power. The ignorance of the Constitution. The disgust for the hierarchy of authority... we are returning to independence, liberty and freedom from the tyranny and oppression within. God Bless Donald Trump!

And p**s off, NeverTrumpers!


8 posted on 11/20/2024 9:31:04 AM PST by mn-bush-man
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To: Fish Speaker

A warning from the comptroller? Seriously? They have some nerve since they’re one of the people responsible for all of the failed audits.


9 posted on 11/20/2024 9:31:11 AM PST by WarlordBK
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"President-elect Donald Trump’s stated plans to tee up the firings of thousands of federal employees has shaken many in the career workforce and is damaging productivity"

I don't care who he is, that's funny right there!

P.S. -Yer fired McCord. Now git!

10 posted on 11/20/2024 9:31:32 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Fish Speaker

The whole “Military - Industrial Complex” needs a thorough fumigation.

Chicken Little is scampering through Fort Fumble!


11 posted on 11/20/2024 9:31:32 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: The Unknown Republican

Mike McCord you say? Fire his butt first.

Yep , send him packing ,LOL


12 posted on 11/20/2024 9:31:36 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Fish Speaker

Mike McCord, the Pentagon comptroller,

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Symbolically, TRUMP, with great fanfare, should fire this AHOL FIRST because he can’t even account for some 800 billion in dollars lost by his only client....the United States Military.


13 posted on 11/20/2024 9:31:57 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Fish Speaker

I expect Continuing Resolutions to stop completely. Give the President a budget. A real budget. Everything comes to a halt if you can’t do that.


14 posted on 11/20/2024 9:32:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: Fish Speaker

Fire him for the astounding $824 billion missing from its budget,LOL


15 posted on 11/20/2024 9:33:10 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: joshua c

Before this degenerate comptroller leaves the pentagon soon, just maybe someone should ask him why the pentagon yet again failed its audit. It sounds like many at the pentagon are spending lots of time jerking off on company time.


16 posted on 11/20/2024 9:34:36 AM PST by hal ogen (Freedom of Speech or Reeducation Camp)
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To: Fish Speaker

Mike McCord would be the first one I would fire. He is the Comptroller and he can’t even get a clean audit for 7 years? C’mon!


17 posted on 11/20/2024 9:34:57 AM PST by Eli Kopter
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didnt the pentagon just fail another audit?

with mike in charge?


18 posted on 11/20/2024 9:35:00 AM PST by joshua c
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To: butlerweave

Fire him, but look into his offshore bank accounts. Those billions went somewheres.


19 posted on 11/20/2024 9:36:00 AM PST by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: Fish Speaker

You only take flak when you are over the target.


20 posted on 11/20/2024 9:36:28 AM PST by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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