Posted on 07/22/2022 7:53:09 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Jack Posobiec 🍊 @JackPosobiec
Trump 25: President Trump planning to fire thousands of federal bureaucrats if re-elected in 2024
axios.com Inside Trump '25: A radical plan for Trump’s second term
8:41 AM · Jul 22, 2022
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The problem is making an announcement that gives them 30 months to prepare.
Fairbanks is a nice place. Don’t send them there. There’s an island there called Fire Island. They can go there. Dump ‘em all and let them fend for themselves. Let them establish their own abominable government. Maybe DoodleDawg could help write their constitution.
No more headlines about what Trump is “planning to do”.
Step One: Get elected.
Step Two: Make it to Inauguration Day
Step Three: Use the powers of the office.
Keep.
But valid, given his posts to me.
If you had an actual point to make regarding what authority the Constitution grants a President over his Executive Branch, you would make your point and back of up with facts, rather than posing obnoxious rhetorical questions.
And had you bothered reading my original post, which lewislynn had obviously not, you would see that I never suggested Trump lacked the constitutional authority to fire people. But Congress isn't going to give him a chance to do that so I fully expect them to take steps to block him, regardless of who is in the majority. Constitutionally they can do that too.
It takes only about ten minutes to read the Constitution and all the amendments - let us know when you have read it and have something cogent to add.
I read it a long time ago. Your turn.
It should be millions, not thousands.
The lost voters are not the problem.
The problem is giving hundreds if not thousands of lawyers, from the National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU, the unions, and heaven knows who else THIRTY MONTHS to prepare the resistance.
Trump was able to be a good president in spite of having the bureaucracy against him. I hope he would be able to be a good president if he replaced thousands of them. A lot depends on whether he has a sufficient number of sufficiently competent people qualified to replace them. Otherwise the result could be chaos.
Doubtless, many government workers are useless or counterproductive, but others aren't. If Trump does get back in the White House, I hope he keeps his head.
There is no practical way to separate the wheat from the chaff in the bureaucracy (Civil Service).
That is why drastic solutions are the only possible ones that have any effect at all.
In my opinion, 2/3 of ALL gub mint is worthless horse crap.
That, too.
Can we even IMAGINE how ugly things are going to get?
JUST WOW!. Although some points are repeated, I’ve never seen such a comprehensive list of President Trump’s successes. Where did you get this? Doesn’t matter, it is a major bookmark for me. Thank you, Sir.
The average age of a federal employee is much older than the US workforce in general, and getting even older every year. An easy way to shrink the federal gov’t would be through attrition. Simply not hiring.
Or—removing the current 100% remote work options for federal employees, and then moving them from DC to cities all over the nation (which spreads around the employment to the entire US).
The first idea (your first paragraph) would be the easiest to implement. It would take no legislation and would be very hard to mount a court challenge.
The second is good though it might need some legislation - budget re-allocation, etc. It might have the happy feature of some Congresscritters backing it. They would like it because it would be a “No Effort\Heavy Political Lifting” way of increasing employment in their states\districts.
Awesome list of Trumps accomplishments
You forget that Congressional legislation needs the President's signature to become law (except after so many days if not signed or vetoed). If Trump were to occupy the WH again, and the Dem/socialists/commies regain majorities in Congress, I can see Trump having to re-order Veto pens.
Move departments to far-flung locations. Interior for example can be moved entirely to Butte Montana. Move State to Fairbanks. With today's internet and Zoom technology there's no reason to have every department situated in Washington DC.
Why would anyone want all those slugs in their town?
Just abolish the jobs.
It has some positive and negative aspects. Firstly this would only effect “Excepted Service” positions and that is generally a good thing.
Excepted Service is how some of these far left nut jobs (e.g. recently resigned head of the Ministry of Truth) get their Federal positions. Excepted service allows some Federal agencies to hire outsiders without those candidates having to compete for the job. Basically the head of an agency or department sees someone they like for whatever reason and offer them a job without having to offer that position to anyone else (competitive service jobs must be advertised to the public and qualifying candidates must interview and compete against each other to get hired). Once in a position, Excepted Service employees are hard to get rid of and can cause quite a bit of mischief to later administrations.
On the downside, recategorizing all the Excepted Service employees as Schedule F will cause a lot of chaos and potential problems in some sensitive National Security positions. They will basically clear all of them out every time an administration with a different ideology takes power and it will take months to restaff those positions. Some decent competent people will get canned. You also are going to lose the interest of most non political people to take those jobs since they likely will be of short duration. Political and ideological hacks wanting to “make a difference” for a few years will be the only ones interested.
“removing the current 100% remote work options for federal employees, and then moving them from DC to cities all over the nation (which spreads around the employment to the entire US).”
Not many Federal employees are doing 100% remote work. OPM guidance is that they must be in their offices at least twice a pay period but even that is pretty rare and many agencies are back in offices full time or close to it. Many Federal employees cannot do remote work at all, it really depends on the position responsibilities.
Only a small part of the Federal workforce is located in Washington DC. The vast majority are already spread around the country. Basically every major Federal agency has offices/employees in every state.
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