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Labor Department Fires Kamala Aide Exposed By The Daily Wire For ‘Burrowing’ In Trump Workforce
Daily Wire ^ | January 23, 2025 | Luke Rosiak

Posted on 01/24/2025 5:40:18 AM PST by lowbridge

A woman who served as an official in Joe Biden’s White House and on Kamala Harris’s transition team, whom bureaucrats tried to hide in the Department of Labor’s non-political workforce after the election, has been terminated after The Daily Wire exposed her scheme.

“Elizabeth Peña was terminated, effective today. The Administration is actively working to ensure no other political operatives from the Biden-Harris administration were secretly burrowed into the government,” an individual with direct knowledge of staffing decisions told The Daily Wire.

The firing suggests the Trump team is hitting the ground running with attention to detail when it comes to the federal workforce, prepared to detect and respond to tricks and evasion that at times thwarted the president’s administration in his first term.

There are strict rules around political appointees converting to career employees to stay in the government after their president’s term ends, designed to prevent the subversion of the new administration. Conversions must be approved by the Office of Personnel Management and reported to Congress.

But between the election and Inauguration Day, the Biden Department of Labor skirted that process by creating a three-year position and appointing Peña to it, The Daily Wire revealed on January 15. It contended that because it wasn’t a permanent position, the rules didn’t apply, even though that would place her in the workforce for the majority of Trump’s term.

Peña had been a Biden political appointee to the Labor Department before leaving to work for the Harris transition team, which would have positioned her for a top political slot had Harris won the presidency. Instead, she was left unemployed — but in between Harris’ election loss and Trump’s inauguration, the Labor Department tried to sneak her into a non-political role.

The maneuver was especially jarring because Peña’s whole career involved strategically

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buhbye; deepstate; dei; elizabethpena; faceloadharris; haha; itistolaugh; kamalaharris; kamalol; lukerosiak; trumpmas; wellbye
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1 posted on 01/24/2025 5:40:18 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

The mainstream media never complained when Obama went through wholesale firings. I figure they will be looking for sob stories about people getting fired under Trump.


2 posted on 01/24/2025 5:43:19 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: lowbridge

Oh, I’m sure they havn’t even scratched the surface yet.


3 posted on 01/24/2025 5:44:50 AM PST by Safrguns
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To: lowbridge
Although the now-aborted “non-political” job had an end date in three years, it carried a salary of up to $153,354, and a Labor Department spokesperson under the Biden administration said she would be able to apply for a permanent job then.

Reading tthe whole article make me wonder?

We have people that get paid to do nothing?

4 posted on 01/24/2025 5:47:24 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: lowbridge

GOOD!

Glad she was caught.


5 posted on 01/24/2025 5:49:49 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: lowbridge

Hopefully the bureaucrats that tried to hide her in the workforce are gone as well.


6 posted on 01/24/2025 5:51:23 AM PST by DAC21
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To: lowbridge

Weed them all out. Fire anybody brought in under Obama or Biden.


7 posted on 01/24/2025 5:52:56 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: lowbridge

Fired on day three, not a great outlook for the rest of those Burrowing. Suggest the others Burrowing quit before becoming national news. Elizabeth, think maybe there maybe legal charges? You know, like with a lawfare paper filing?


8 posted on 01/24/2025 5:57:10 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: texas booster
We have people that get paid to do nothing?

Lots of them I am sure.

After COVID Biden let millions of Fed workers continue to work from home.

Fed workers, working from home often do little to no work.

I am willing to bet many got other jobs while "working from home".

I think it would be a good project for some new Trump employee to audit workers from home to see just how much time these people were actually logged in on their computers actively working.

9 posted on 01/24/2025 5:57:59 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: lowbridge

Lots of liberal moles to unburrow!


10 posted on 01/24/2025 6:01:29 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: lowbridge

DOGE needs to assign folks to do a full audit of every federal employee hired in the past year to make sure they are not hidden Democrat saboteurs.

It is a lot easier to fire federal employees in the first year of their employment.


11 posted on 01/24/2025 6:07:21 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: lowbridge

She can always get a job on a “Street Taco” gut truck.


12 posted on 01/24/2025 6:16:59 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For a good time, call Lisa M. 123-4567)
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To: cgbg

Rewards for longer term civil service managers that have been stuck with these moles, that clearly won’t actually be allowed to manage them, and likely live under threats of the mole’s political overlords.

Sounds like management hell - they’d be happy to get rid of these little nightmares.


13 posted on 01/24/2025 6:25:46 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Safrguns

Rats gonna Rat. (burrowing specialists)


14 posted on 01/24/2025 6:26:43 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: lowbridge

BTTT


15 posted on 01/24/2025 6:27:07 AM PST by nopardons
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To: lowbridge

A huge amount of their actions are treason. Can anyone see that?


16 posted on 01/24/2025 6:35:29 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: lowbridge

EXACTLY the effort and diligence needed. This bloated(see her picture) operative would, with collaboration from the Deep State, work all day to undermine Trump.


17 posted on 01/24/2025 6:39:44 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Safrguns

Generally speaking, any person who is a FT employee is a Democrat supporter. I would guess 80%+ When my son worked for Trump, he had someone slow walking work for a Secretary. They wrote him up with the threat of termination. Amazingly, the persons performance improved.


18 posted on 01/24/2025 6:40:33 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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19 posted on 01/24/2025 6:49:22 AM PST by Right Brigade
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To: texas booster

OF COURSE WE HAVE SUCH “EMPLOYEES” AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL.

I AM HOPING WE CAN ROOT OUT ALL THE “GHOST EMPLOYEES”

Example:

John D SMITH—paycheck
J DAVID SMITH==paycheck
JD SMITH==Paycheck

When they were mopping after Katrina, GHOST EMPLOYEES ON NEW ORLEANS MUNICIPAL PAYROLLS WERE FOUND-—QUITE A FEW.


20 posted on 01/24/2025 6:54:46 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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