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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/politics/trump-federal-workers-2nd-term-invs/index.htmlWhat Trumps war on the Deep State could mean: An army of suck-ups
By Bob Ortega, Kyung Lah, Allison Gordon and Nelli Black, CNN
Updated 9:39 AM EDT, Sat April 27, 2024
(CNN) - At one campaign rally after another, former President Donald Trump whips his supporters into raucous cheers with a promise of whats to come if hes given another term in office: We will demolish the deep state.
In essence, its a declaration of war on the federal governmenta vow to transform its size and scope and make it more beholden to Trumps whims and worldview.
The former presidents statements, policy blueprints laid out by top officials in his first administration and interviews with allies show that Trump is poised to double down in a second term on executive orders that faltered, or those he was blocked from carrying out the first time around.
Trump seeks to sweep away civil service protections that have been in place for more than 140 years. He has said hed make every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States at will. Even though more than 85 percent of federal employees already work outside the DC area, Trump says he would drain the swamp and move as many as 100,000 positions out of Washington. His plans would eliminate or dismantle entire departments.
A close look at his prior, fitful efforts shows how, in another term, Trumps initiatives could debilitate large swaths of the federal government.
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gab13by13
(21,526 posts)The insurrection didn't end on J6 2021.
dalton99a
(81,715 posts)haele
(12,708 posts)The federal government may employ millions, but for every federal employee, there's at least that many, if not more contractors and public sector jobs depending on that federal department being open.
How many people ended up with shorter hours, fewer commissions, or flat out lost their jobs whenever there was a Federal Government shutdown?
There's very few companies that can tool up quickly and replace the Federal government, not only for the work they do, but all the other supporting "living wage" (or close to it ) jobs that a Federal Agency building brings to a community.
The Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation want to return us to a Colonial Plantation economy, which doesn't work well in a global setting.
Of course, those millionaires and billionaires can always flee to their villa or dacha on some remote island while the world around it suffers. What do they care?
Haele
Buns_of_Fire
(17,219 posts)Moynihan said making vast numbers of jobs subject to appointment based on political affiliation would amount to absolutely the biggest change in the American public sector since a merit-based civil service was created in 1883.
One of the architects of that plan for a Trump second term said as much in a video last year for the Heritage Foundation. Its going to be groundbreaking, said Russell Vought, who served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump. He declined interview requests from CNN. But in the video, he spoke at length about the plan to crush what he called the woke and the weaponized bureaucracy. Vought discussed dismantling or remaking the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
Vought focused on a plan he drafted to reissue Trumps 2020 executive order, known as Schedule F. It would reclassify as political appointees any federal workers deemed to have influence on policy. Reissuing Schedule F is part of a roadmap, known as Project 2025, drafted for a second Trump term by scores of conservative groups and published by the Heritage Foundation. (bold mine)
Say hello to your new law enforcement agency, a subsidiary of Academi (formerly known as Xe, formerly formerly known as Blackwater). By the way, did I hear you just call Dear Leader Trump a schmuck?