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Trump will find that the executive orders were the easy part
American Thinker ^ | 01/22/2025 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/22/2025 10:37:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Trump’s executive orders and memoranda to his department heads are thrilling. He’s doing all the right things. But of course, signing pieces of paper is easy. The hard part is getting those things to happen.

Trump will face opposition from the entrenched federal workers (all of whom have been protected for decades by their increasingly partisan, leftist unions), from Democrat-run states, and from individual actors. Most of this will end up in the courts, so we need to hope that judges correctly read the American mood and give Trump his way on acts manifestly within his constitutional purview.

Last week, a very scary poll came out showing that over 40% of federal workers say that they intend to oppose the administration. The poll surprisingly showed that highly educated, affluent Americans, the ones who are the Democrats’ most fervent supporters, are willing to give Trump a chance, as are ordinary Americans, the ones without post-graduate degrees and high salaries. The outliers, however, were federal employees who live in and around D.C. and bring home salaries exceeding $75,000:

A surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump.

Most Americans, even many of the elites who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, are willing to support Trump’s administration, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the Napolitan Institute. Yet 42% of federal government managers who work in the Washington, D.C., swamp intend to work against the administration.

In all instances, these employees’ proposed acts of resistance are firing offenses. In some instances, they may also be sedition.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eo; lawfare; lawsuits; opposition; trump
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1 posted on 01/22/2025 10:37:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

How about some executive orders going after judges that make their own law ,LOL


2 posted on 01/22/2025 10:39:52 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's the problem --- HOW DO YOU ROOT OUT THESE PROBLEM EMPLOYEES?

Trump has announced that he is firing over 1,000 Biden appointees, which is a good start (beginning with General Milley), but it doesn’t address the many thousands of other employees among the 2.2 million-strong federal labor force. These people can cause a lot of trouble before they’re rousted. Fortunately, Trump has already appointed 1,300 new staff, so they should be on the ground policing the “resisters.”
3 posted on 01/22/2025 10:40:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The civil service laws have to be pulled out by the roots.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 10:42:46 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: SeekAndFind

The unions are illegal and created by an EO. Just kill the unions.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 10:43:24 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe this can be viewed as a sort of “reverse lawfare”. That might be the strategy. How many lawsuits can the left file? It’s easy enough to file a lawsuit, I suppose, but if it’s going to succeed it needs to have a strong legal team and legal strategy. The left is going to be spread thin by all these executive orders. Do the have the money and legal expertise to fight all them?


6 posted on 01/22/2025 10:43:48 AM PST by mbrfl
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To: SeekAndFind

I think we all know much of this will end up in court.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 10:45:43 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here's the problem --- HOW DO YOU ROOT OUT THESE PROBLEM EMPLOYEES?

find a way to impact their pensions, taking away the promise of a salary for life long after they stop working will hurt very very much, perhaps enough to do their jobs and not try to be a 5th column inside the government.

8 posted on 01/22/2025 10:47:23 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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RE: How about some executive orders going after judges that make their own law

Sorry, can’t be done, unless Trump becomes a dictator. We have three co-equal branches of government and the executive branch has no power to fire anyone from the judicial branch.


9 posted on 01/22/2025 10:47:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: AbolishCSEU

There should be law that there will be 0 raises for ALL fed/ gov employees while the country is in debt. that would include congress.

MThen, as an emergency action, due to federal debt there should be an immediate downsizing of X% of ALL federal agencies.

Then, bust the unions.


10 posted on 01/22/2025 10:48:27 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: SeekAndFind

Yet 42% of federal government managers who work in the Washington, D.C., swamp intend to work against the administration.

In all instances, these employees’ proposed acts of resistance are firing offenses. In some instances, they may also be sedition.


the problem is in dc. Trump has issued a lot of “testing” EOs. What will they do? Trump now has unlimited resources, they do not.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 10:48:56 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: SeekAndFind

He knows it. So do the feddddd up majority of the country Ms Wilbur’s,

Read the constitution and get over it.

His executive orders are going through

That’s easy


12 posted on 01/22/2025 10:50:35 AM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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The left is going to be spread thin by all these executive orders. Do the have the money and legal expertise to fight all them?

The Left has proven their ability to shrewdly pick their battles, winning the big battles one at a time while they keep us busy putting out lesser fires elsewhere. We just have to be ready for them. Focus.

13 posted on 01/22/2025 10:50:53 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fnugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: SeekAndFind

In 2019, I pulled this 7 minutes from one of Bill’s always EXCELLENT commentaries. SPOT ON. PLEASE SHARE!!
7 minutes on how to take down the DEEP STATE
BILL WHITTLE ON “POINT 4” & HILL RATS
Hey, IT’S A START!
IF YOU CARE...SHARE!!!
https://youtu.be/pEfYUlWUZG0


14 posted on 01/22/2025 11:00:26 AM PST by Dick Bachert (=)
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To: SeekAndFind
We have three co-equal branches of government and the executive branch has no power to fire anyone from the judicial branch.

Yes, of course.

Similarly, and about the topic of this article, Trump has the constitutional power to fire anybody in the executive branch.

15 posted on 01/22/2025 11:06:44 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump will find that the executive orders were the easy part."

With all due respect to outstanding author Andrea Widberg, Trump is no beginner and already knows what to expect.

President Trump, an experienced and accomplished developr, knows very well that the EO's are like the architect's blueprints, and simply designate how the heavy work is to commence at the project site.

This time around, Trump no doubt has a clear understanding of how and by whom the political obstacles will be negotiated and the work completed.

16 posted on 01/22/2025 11:17:29 AM PST by frog in a pot (Obama, Hillary, Biden & Harris each earning +48% of the pop vote presents more than election issues.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, I think he already knows the EO were the easy part. And if I was listening intently to that scene from the Oval Office with the Press, some of the EO are trolling papers to force the hand(s) of Congress or the Supreme Court. He fully expects some of them to disrupt the status of DC.


17 posted on 01/22/2025 11:20:53 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t assume something is easy just because President Trump makes it look easy


18 posted on 01/22/2025 11:22:21 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: frog in a pot

It is clear already that a major President Trump strategy is to “flood the zone” with a large number of policy directives and many strategies to implement them.

That way goals can be achieved even if specific tactics fail.

The best tactics are those that work—and there is no way to know what they are until they are put to the test—so you pursue multiple approaches.

“Move fast and break things.”


19 posted on 01/22/2025 11:22:31 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The best way to do this is to say we’re closing that agency, that department, that building, that job title in broad sweeps, hundreds of people each day.


20 posted on 01/22/2025 11:22:59 AM PST by lurk (u)
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