Posted on 02/12/2025 12:55:33 PM PST by kevcol
President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies Tuesday to demonstrate that their employees’ roles are legally required, granting Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) broad new powers to eliminate positions deemed unnecessary.
The executive order requires agencies to defend its workforce against elimination or consolidation, while restricting departments to hiring just one new employee for every four who leave. It also creates a “DOGE team lead” position within each agency to oversee what the order calls “large-scale reductions in force” by identifying which functions aren’t mandated by law.
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well, I get in around 10 or 11, read the web for several hours before and after lunch,... maybe attend a meeting
In the private world you generally have to face a job performance review regularly.
It is simply is “what is your value added contribution to our bottom line?”
In governments we have elections that serve that purpose.
In a bloated union bureaucracy, there are no such checks.
Many government civilian workers serve a useful function,
but way too many do not! They are just Democrat Jobs programs. They don’t hire too many non-Democrats.
WE BE ROCKIN’ THE BOAT-—:)
Ask them to draw a data flow diagram of their department.
I refer to the federal bureaucracy as “employed welfare.”
Women and minorities hardest hit!
Consolidation is not a word the swamp members want to hear.
This should be fun. Most of those in charge of these employees, probably don't even know what those jobs entail.
And many of those reviews are done by people who have no clue what the job is all about, or if the person is performing up to par. They just hand-stamp job reviews. And that's the way it is, all the way up the chain of command.
Musk is reported to have axed 90% of the staff at Twitter and it is FAR better than it was under Dorsey.
My recommendation is a pay cut of 10% per year for the next 5 years. Also, change the retirement system from high 3 to last 3 of base pay only. You’ll see a yuge exodus.
“I’M A PEOPLE PERSON!”
Are these the DOGE boys?
Great idea! I saw employees take a DC assignment just before retirement for the higher locality pay. I also support no locality pay for teleworking.
Great idea! I saw employees take a DC assignment just before retirement for the higher locality pay. I also support no locality pay for teleworking.
Attn: all DOGE haters:
I came across a lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump’s DOGE Executive Order and, expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out Trump and Musk didn’t create anything. Obama did.
Obama created the United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.
Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, and keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts
Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities. DOGE teams get embedded inside every single federal agency. Each team consists of a lawyer, HR rep, a zoomer nerd, and an investigator. They report to DOGE, not the agency they’re embedded in.
But wait, there’s more! Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35, which governs federal IT and cybersecurity oversight. Since USDS was originally an IT oversight body, DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems. Yes, that’s right. All of them.
His executive order is written to block legal challenges. Includes language that overrides conflicting executive orders. Orders every agency to comply. Refusal means they violate presidential authority.
Congress can’t defund it because it’s not a new program, just a repurposed one. DOJ can’t sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws exactly as written. Democrats trying to file legal challenges run into standing issues because DOGE operates within existing frameworks.
Obama literally built the perfect Administrative (read: Deep) State IT backdoor. Trump and Musk just hacked the system and took the admin controls. Musk now has legal oversight of every major agency’s internal systems. The Administrative State can’t stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws.
They legally outplayed the system and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Obama created DOGE.
Have a nice day. Bet you like it now.
has anyone heard this Tim Burchett quote before
Something about the gravy train on biscuit wheels.
i wondered if he just made it up or is it a known saying
Dorsey and especially his witch corporate attorney were just pieces of work.
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