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Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere
AP ^ | 01 Sep 2024 | OLIVIA DIAZ and BRIAN WITTE

Posted on 09/02/2024 1:29:44 AM PDT by blueplum

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital and its suburbs.

During former President Donald Trump ‘s administration, her office under the U.S. Department of Agriculture was told it would be moving. About 75 people were going to be relocated to Kansas City, Missouri....

The proposals to move a large number of federal workers infuriate local leaders in the suburbs of Washington in both Maryland and Virginia...

... Campante said it also has a downside....“I think it is a positive factor for accountability that you have civil servants also operating as a check on political appointees, and this would be weakened ...

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: civilservice; crybabies; decentralization; deepstate; dissociatedpress; fedworkers; trump; trump2024; trumpsagenda
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To: gitmo

“That just doesn’t make a lick of sense, because more than 90% of the agriculture in America happens inside the DC city limits. Corn, potatoes, beef, poultry: they are all grown right there in Washington DC. Why else would the USDA be headquartered there? All the farming expertise is clustered In the nation’s capital.”

Lol, I was thinking the same thing. The last thing Dept. of Agriculture employees want is to live and work locally with by a bunch of pissed off farmers.

But the real problem here is we have city folks who are completely disconnected from rural culture and values ruling over the rural areas. They should be closer to their work so they are connected and accountable locally. They need to live the lifestyle and culture to properly do their jobs.


21 posted on 09/02/2024 3:03:39 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: blueplum
"...and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital..."

Government workers don't create wealth, they leech it off the tax payer.
22 posted on 09/02/2024 3:05:12 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: phil00071
What happened in Virginia is similar to what occurred in New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. All the suburban counties around New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia voted for Reagan. By 2020, except for the more distant New York suburbs like Suffolk County and Monmouth and Ocean Counties in NJ and exurban McHenry County outside of Chicago, all the suburban counties went for Biden.
23 posted on 09/02/2024 3:06:37 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: blueplum

Send them to Gaza and Eastern Ukraine.


24 posted on 09/02/2024 3:17:03 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: blueplum

Send federal workers to the unemployment line.


25 posted on 09/02/2024 3:18:33 AM PDT by DFG
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To: roving

North Dakoda would be a nice place for about half of them. They can learn to ice fish about 7 months a year.


26 posted on 09/02/2024 3:27:45 AM PDT by Beagle8U (" F Hairass and the Commie Coward.")
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To: blueplum
...Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere,

Like to the unemployment office?

27 posted on 09/02/2024 3:30:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DFG

gmta


28 posted on 09/02/2024 3:31:41 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: blueplum

Federal workers don’t need to fear being moved. Their jobs should be eliminated. Government could easily be cut in half with no effect except the reduction in cost.


29 posted on 09/02/2024 3:35:58 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: blueplum
Forget moving them anywhere, just slash them or the agency or both permanetly.  FF to the 28:10 and see how it can be done:

Day One of Donald Trump's Next Admin ft. Vivek Ramaswamy
30 posted on 09/02/2024 3:36:14 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: Beagle8U

The fever swamps of Michigan’s U P or Maine would be nice too. That would toughen the bastards up.


31 posted on 09/02/2024 3:37:03 AM PDT by Beagle8U (" F Hairass and the Commie Coward.")
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To: blueplum

Campante = Deep State.


32 posted on 09/02/2024 3:39:20 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: blueplum

It would be great if “Elsewhere” were “Hell”.


33 posted on 09/02/2024 3:53:57 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: blueplum

Send them all to northern Alaska with one computer.


34 posted on 09/02/2024 3:54:22 AM PDT by Shqipo (Make America America Again.)
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To: Mark17

Shouldn’t disparage Alaska, or send these lazy losers there. I lived in Alaska for 20 years — the best years of my life.


35 posted on 09/02/2024 3:56:17 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: Mark17

Nothing to do with this post, but I was on an Alaskan cruise last year - the first week of July. Visitd the Red Dog Saloon. Loved it. Got a bumper sticker on my pickup that says “Follow My Ass To The Red Dog Saloon.”


36 posted on 09/02/2024 3:56:56 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: roving

They need to see what the private sector experiences.


37 posted on 09/02/2024 3:56:59 AM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: gitmo

Try raising one chicken in DC. You will have 6 federal agencies as well as the DC government all over you. It’s forbidden.


38 posted on 09/02/2024 3:59:07 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: maddog55

Efficiency would improve, actually.


39 posted on 09/02/2024 4:00:32 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Wilderness Conservative

One particular demographic could be relocated to Liberia, West Africa. The official language is English. Its government was patterned after USA’s. Establish some US Federal satellite offices there.

“Liberia was created in 1822 as a colony for freed African-American slaves and free black Americans, founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS).”


40 posted on 09/02/2024 4:01:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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