Posted on 02/17/2025 10:21:35 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Former President Joe Biden’s massive expansion of the federal workforce and flurry of administrative moves on his way out the door have already created roadblocks for President Donald Trump as he seeks to deliver on the sweeping reforms he promised.
From greenlighting new union protections for federal workers to approving last-minute energy rules, Biden administration officials spent the weeks after Trump’s election making moves to complicate the incoming president’s agenda. Some of those efforts began months before the votes were cast, and others took place in the 76 days between Biden’s defeat and Trump’s inauguration.
And while most outgoing administrations take steps to cement their achievements before ceding power, critics say the Biden administration went much further.
“It's normal, but I would say the level at which they did it is pretty aggressive and probably unprecedented,” Richard Stern, director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, told the Washington Examiner. “They kind of ran as quickly as possible to make financial obligations for the government.”
Those financial obligations, as well as federal workforce protections and eleventh-hour rules......
Under Biden, the federal workforce grew dramatically. Biden oversaw a hiring surge at the State Department, for example, that marked the agency’s fastest hiring pace in 20 years.
Some agencies rushed to pad their ranks as the end of Biden’s presidency approached.
During the final year of the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency sought to surge hiring, hitting its goal of bringing on more than 1,000 new EPA workers in 2024 alone. That was much higher than the 818 new federal workers the EPA hired from 2021 to 2023.
As many as 200,000 federal workers were hired in just the last year, according to Office of Personnel Management data through May 2024
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Trump/Musk vs Biden/Trannies/Fags ?
I’m not worried
Old Joe is like a horror movie villain. The movie roles of fellow Geminis Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee should inspire Trump to get back at him.
Well, I guess we should all just give up and go home if the washed up examiner says so
Hint....Those weren’t Bidens roadblocks. Those are the doings of the mysterious Easter Bunny.
I’d like to know how Joe Pedo got away with this kind of stuff without any lawsuits being filed against him.
Joe wasn’t the guy in charge. Team Trump could establish that Joe was a potato brain and not in charge. They have the transcript of the inspector interviewing Joe and deciding not to proceed due to Joe’s mental absence.
Trump has been office less that a month ... things coming.
I expect those tapes to be released soon.
Continue to cut the Federal workforce AND move a lot of the remaining operations to Maryland. Cull a 150,000 from the DC Metro area of Virginia. Make Virginia RED again. Maryland is a BLUE hell hole anyway.
Many/most/all last-minute hires are by definition probationary workers and can be let go and, I imagine, will be let go.
If Biden put in those regulations by executive order, can’t Trump just as well rescind them by executive order?
Biden announced that he was doing this and the elites celebrated that Trump would be checkmated by ole Joe.
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