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Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
The New York Times ^ | Jan. 25, 2025, 3:22 p.m. ET | Erica L. Green, Campbell Robertson and Noam Scheiber

Posted on 01/25/2025 1:34:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on administrative leave because she works on projects that connect Black students, among others, to federal government programs.

A disabled veteran employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs grew emotional when he heard about the rescinding of telework options, unsure whether it would mean the end of his job taking care of fellow soldiers.

A Federal Trade Commission employee was so anxious that he told family members not to talk about politics on unencrypted lines. Across government agencies, workers eyed one another nervously, wondering whether a colleague would report them, accusing them of resisting the new administration’s move to end certain programs.

President Trump’s rapid push to overhaul the federal bureaucracy in his first days in office has been met with a mix of fear, fury and confusion throughout the work force.

More than two dozen employees across the government, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of worries of retribution, described agencies gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the new policies and workers frantically trying to assess the impact on their careers and families. As the nation’s largest employer, the upheaval in the federal government could reverberate in communities throughout the country.

Starting on Inauguration Day, the orders and memos came down one after the other, many crafted in the pugnacious tone of a campaign speech: the shuttering of “Radical and Wasteful” diversity programs in federal agencies; the stripping of civil service protections from a share of the federal work force; the end to remote work, which, one administration memo claimed, had left federal office buildings “mostly empty” and rendered downtown Washington “a national embarrassment.”

All new hiring was frozen, job offers were rescinded, scientific meetings were...

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campbellrobertson; ericalgreen; noamscheiber; trumpmas
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Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion

They say that like it's a bad thing.

1 posted on 01/25/2025 1:34:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here comes the tear jerkers ...


2 posted on 01/25/2025 1:38:35 PM PST by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“As the nation’s largest employer...”

I think the “reporter” unwittingly swerved into a significant part of the problem.


3 posted on 01/25/2025 1:40:56 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“ They say that like it’s a bad thing.”

Exactly.

Fear and confusion in deep state and stasis bureaucracy - it’s a good thing.


4 posted on 01/25/2025 1:44:17 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You can’t go too far.
You can’t layoff too many.
You can’t cut too much.

Let’s really test the limits.


5 posted on 01/25/2025 1:44:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Agree the New York Times will be doing a lot of sob stories now things are being corrected the illegals top the list.


6 posted on 01/25/2025 1:45:04 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

BARF ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 01/25/2025 1:47:21 PM PST by workerbee
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To: Vaduz

Same thing Milei did in Argentina, for the same problem. A gargantuan administrative state that stifled the country and lived off the producers.


8 posted on 01/25/2025 1:48:02 PM PST by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Across government agencies, workers eyed one another nervously, wondering whether a colleague would report them, accusing them of resisting the new administration’s move to end certain programs.”
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Delicious. Absolutely delicious.
Don’t violate the EO’s and there won’t be a problem.
It’s time the left went into warfare against its own.


9 posted on 01/25/2025 1:51:21 PM PST by Notthereyet (Not There Yet)
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To: Justa

Check


10 posted on 01/25/2025 1:51:24 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump’s Moves to Upend UNCONSTITUTIONAL Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off REJOICING, DANCING IN THE STREETS, AND AN ECONOMIC BOON (possibly after a temporary economic adjustment similar to the Reagan era).


11 posted on 01/25/2025 1:51:28 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I must admit that the feeble cries of the New York Times give me pleasure. ;-)


12 posted on 01/25/2025 1:51:30 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: Fish Speaker

Yeh, cry me a river. If they’re part of the left wing agenda then buh bye!


13 posted on 01/25/2025 1:54:01 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now they know how Republicans felt for the prior few years.


14 posted on 01/25/2025 1:54:43 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Fish Speaker

We need an animated GIF of a sad-looking widow or orphan sawing away at a violin.


15 posted on 01/25/2025 1:57:35 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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To: Tudorfly

None of whom pay a CENT in taxes.

They are paid BY taxes, by people who ADD value to the economy.

Government employment is a net DRAIN on GDP.


16 posted on 01/25/2025 1:57:41 PM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

-Evil Orange Man, still in his first week, Oh no!
=Pearls-clutching reaches Ludicrous speed


17 posted on 01/25/2025 1:59:04 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Corrective surgery always involves some apprehension and pain. But then you’re much better off for it.


18 posted on 01/25/2025 2:01:13 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
he was being placed on administrative leave because she works on projects that connect Black students, among others, to federal government programs.

Codewords for DEI director.

19 posted on 01/25/2025 2:02:36 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s good to see the hacks at the NYT publish an uplifting story. Give us more.


20 posted on 01/25/2025 2:03:26 PM PST by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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