Posted on 06/15/2023 7:43:40 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
It’s not terribly surprising that Donald Trump wants to tear that system down. His idol, after all, is Andrew Jackson, who championed the “spoils system” as a populist revolt against the emergence of a cadre of professional administrators who remained in federal offices for multiple administrations. But for all his talk of “clearing the swamp” and replacing “deep state” civil servants with his own loyal supporters, Trump didn’t make destruction of the civil-service system a key first-term priority. It wasn’t until October 2020 that he issued an executive order creating a new Schedule F classification of political appointees to include most policymaking positions in the higher levels of the bureaucracy. Like a lot of alarming things Trump proposed, Schedule F didn’t get implemented, and Joe Biden quickly revoked the executive order and restored the traditional civil service.
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Like Trump, DeSantis believes that federal law-enforcement agencies are abusing power systematically whenever they get in the way of conservative policy initiatives or prosecute Republican officeholders. So his makeover plan will focus on decapitating the FBI and the Department of Justice generally, according to Philip Wegmann of RealClearPolitics:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been working for months on plans to tear down and rebuild both the Department of Justice and the FBI, consulting with experts and members of Congress to develop a “Day One” strategy to end what conservatives see as the weaponization of the justice system.
The governor has privately told advisors that he will hire and fire plenty of federal personnel, reorganize entire agencies, and execute a “disciplined” and “relentless” strategy to restore the Justice Department to a mission more in line with what the “Founding Fathers envisioned.”
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Van Buren the effete New Yorker has much less of a justification or excuse for dumping the Cherokee than a man who suffered personally on the frontier.
Any bureaucratic institution minus a major shakeup in nearly a hundred years has become self-serving and corrupt.
Far far far too many bureaucrats have been in place longer than most any elected government representative. That should change. There should be term limits on all federal bureaucrats, who should serve at most no more than then years and in some cases no more than six.
Dims, Leftists and Progressives will complain that is an impossible task because there are 1.2 million federal civlian employees, excluding those civilians working for the DOD or the military branches. Our answer is that those huge numbers are part of the problem. We need leaner federal agencies whose mission is more narrowly “federal” focused and not trying to run and decide everything for the whole country. Many so-called “national” decisions and policies should be left to the states.
You really think politicians are term limited?
In theory maybe in practice NO! They can die in the position and their corpse could rot in the chair if not one carried it out!
You don’t have to sell me on them. I am already a fan!
The rest of us are either peasants or part of the ruling class elite.
Sounds perfect to me.
Civil Service System = Administrative Deep State
Much if the Civil Service is hellbent on destroying the republic.
That would be nice but the only one who appears loyal to Trump is Vivek Ramaswamy. I like him and he’s smart as a whip.
I certainly hope so. Civil Servics was originally passed to ostensibly deal with the problem of patronage and wholesale firing of government employees with each turnover of administrations. The medicine, as is normal with government problem solving was ultimately far worse than the disease it was supposed to cure. It created the Permanent Government that works for its own interests and often at odds with the policies of the sitting President. The goal is always increasing the power of the offices.
Another mistake that was made was ending the civil service as a separate non-departmental commission. By doing that it lost its “independence” even though by then it was gone somewhat in practice by the creeping unionization. However, keeping it separate would have made it easier to restore that “independence”. Placing the civil service under the executive branch makes it much easier to politicize and allows unionization to grow.
With it under the executive branch Trump or DeSantis can with a EO make it all “Schedule C”. It is a solution but not a good one because the next Rat administration (and there will be one!) can simply undo that EO. Putting it back into a separate commission with appropriate legislation would make that harder
Well, it is 3-4 times larger than it should be.
The President steps to the podium and announces the following Executive Order:
With the exception of the military, all federal agencies will find their budgets trimmed by 10%, effective tomorrow. If you are not capable of providing the same, or better, service within this budget, you will be replaced by someone who can.
Have a nice day.
if it were me...
1. All employees back to office 100% of the time.
2. ALL new hires, no pension 401k
3. No more “cadilac” health care, Obamacare for you!
4. pay freeze for x years.
5. if they strike.. lay them All off.
No more recognition of unions/ collective bargaining.
6. Move locations out of DC area.
7. base salaries off of prevailing wages of that new area.
For unskilled labor
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FLGOVT
Doesn’t look like much of war going on in Florida if those stats are accurate...
As FDR noted, They sit on both sides of the bargaining table!!!!!
A president has the ability to fire somewhere between 3,500 to 6,000 federal employees. The next Republican president should do that immediately after taking the oath of office. The Congress could do far more by refusing to fund the Departments of Energy, Education, Housing and Urban Development, EPA, FBI, and a hundred other worthless and criminal agencies. Our states could pick up any workload that was really needed.
“Trump and DeSantis Are on a Mission to Destroy the Civil Service”
AKA - the deep state, AKA - the swamp.
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