This op-ed published in Politico is intended to sound the alarm about President Donald Trump fundamentally destroying the system of career civil service agents in Washington DC, and it’s also a little funny.
I mean, if you built an echo-chamber ideological in magnitude and scale, then self-isolated inside the DC beltway barrier, this would be exactly the type of alarm to follow.
POLITICO – […] President Donald Trump’s sweeping proposal to convert thousands of career civil servants into political appointees if he wins a second term in the White House. That plan — which has won the support of powerful, Trump-aligned conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute — is modeled on an executive order from Trump’s first term that redesignated 20,000 civil servants in policy-related positions as “Schedule F” employees, thereby allowing them to be fired unilaterally by the president.
[…] Americans should not underestimate the damage that the reforms would do to the federal government’s ability to deliver basic services in a timely and efficient manner. “At the end of the day, it’s intuitive,” he said. “If you are selecting people on the basis of their political persuasion or their loyalty as opposed to their expertise and their commitment to the public good, you’re going to wind up with less good service and more risk for the American people.” (MORE)
Apparently, Mr. Max Stier has misread the room.
Dear, DC Career Civil Servants,
FU!
Warmest regards,
America
ditto…. to each and every federal bureaucrat.. FU! WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!
Hillary Clinton Spotted in Punta Cana Wrapped in a Tent
It takes a big garment to cover all those spikes and scales.
Bingo card without the #s…
That’s a shower curtain
Yup.
Evidently the President can fire anyone he wants if he does it in the correct manner.
He could, for instance, fire anyone who’s social security number ends in an odd number. That is legal because there is no case for a discriminatory action.
The official name is Reduction In Force (RIF) and it is already part of the personnel regulations.
He needs to do like what was done in moving the BLM HQ. Move agencies to where their customers are.
Ag Department? – Kansas, preferably Dodge City.
Interior? – Helena, MT
And any other feral agency located in and around DC.
Give them 6 months to make the move.
Anyone complaining can get a Directed Reassignment to Alaska, Guam, Nebraska, Alabama, etc.
Anyone not moved after 6 months is fired.
Diego Garcia!
Lol! Been there,done that.
Excellent idea.
Department of Education- eradicated
if trump cant close down the Dpt of Education.
Ron Paul would make an excellent Secretary of Education. Truth and learning would be restored to our schools.
Folks we are doomed 30+ year of libtards running the education system..They are turning out communist socialist and marxist every year… Brainwashed assclowns anyone under 40 is a nut bag liberal jackass. Education system is why…
DOE is very small and invaluable for policy applicable to Free Appropriate Public Education for school age children including IDEA, Section 504 Title I and other childhood programs. Invest in our children’s public development and educational opportunities more so and with knowingly meaningful and productive opportunities. Americans are not well educated.
AG–Iowa
Dodge City would smell wonderful on a hot summer day.
Just like the Hart offices and privy chambers in the Capitol building.
That would be like helping cancer to metastasize. Better to keep it localized and try to shrink it.
Radiation helps sometimes.
The BLM HQ move showed it would be a cancer eating itself.
Sorry, I’m not getting the BLM HQ reference at all?
Bureau of Land Management
LOL! That makes A LOT more sense than the Black Lives Matter HQ!
Thanks for the assist Lindy : )
I agree totally except they don’t need 6 months. The government can move quickly. Give them 60 days with a bonus if they move in 30.
He needs to get rid of government, period.
Why pay to move crooks anywhere except to prison Or the gallows for treason.
Aren’t we fed up enough yet?
I know about RIF. I got it in January 1991 when Dick Cheney cancelled the A-12 contract and someone from the A-12 contract came and took my salaried position at the airplane manufacturer in St. Louis. Me and about 9,999 others.
Happens in the military.. I got an early out 1971*** 4 months
“President Donald Trump fundamentally destroying the system of career civil service agents in Washington DC”
Hmmm. The same pampered feather merchants who did everything in their power to RESIST Trump throughout his entire term?
The same sniveling fools who whined and cajoled trying to avoid moving to Colorado when the BLM HQ was moved to Grand Junction? Then around 50% quit? Oh, but then POTATUS made a deal where the new HQ sits mainly empty because he allowed the bureaucrats to remain in DC.
Get used to the words, Directed Reassignment.
I’m not sure there will be an election.
https://leohohmann.com/2023/12/29/10-predictions-for-2024-get-ready-for-tough-times-with-war-aneconomic-collapse-on-the-horizon/#more-17058
one way or another, there will be a different administration.
8 years ago I would have called all of his predictions conspiracy theories. Now, they not only sound plausible but probable.
Scary stuff coming down the pike. Buckle up and prepare.
Sir Winston Churchill referring to the civil servants in England; “They are neither civil nor servants.”. To paraphrase his quote; “They are neither civil, nor service.”.
I honestly believe that none of them are employable in the real world. So I would advise getting rid of 100% of them. Instead hire about 10% to 20% of that same number of hard working Americans who would be very capable of doing their jobs in a very civilized manner, with honest customer service in every fiber of their being.
Normally real world Americans are very pleasant to work with and are extremely capable of doing their jobs. I am not talking about snot nose Ivy League graduates, but working class, everyday Americans.
“Civil Servant” = Civil Master so taught me Robert Heinlein half a century ago.
I have always referred to them as CIVIL SERPENTS thanks Dad
R.D.
There is nothing that says Constitutionally that an administration can serve beyond its elected term.
Amen to that. And, let them do the work from their home states so they don’t have to live in the 90% voted for Clinton 💩hole called DC, or District of corruption/criminals.
“damage that the reforms would do to the federal government’s ability to deliver basic services in a timely and efficient manner”
Oh sure because the federal government is so efficient….
The nine most dreaded words in the English language,
“Im here from the government and I’m here to help” ~ President Ronald Reagan
Heritage Foundation Project 2025 is currently collecting resumes of Patriots that want to replace the DS
These bureaucrat swamp monsters admitted they dragged their feet on 45’s policy decisions during his first term. They were caught on video.
The Apprentice 2.0
2025: Season (1) Episode (1)
DC…ALL Schedule “F’s”……….YOUR FIRED
He has broader authority if he says…”You’re Furloughed”?
Every US Attorney can and should be fired at 1 pm on 1/20/25. Maybe the entire DOJ?
Then indict the ones that committed crimes under color of law?
“Americans should not underestimate the damage that the reforms would do to the federal government’s ability to deliver basic services in a timely and efficient manner.”
Americans are very used to seeing feral agencies completely ignoring basic services they should be providing.
I have NEVER been helped by a federal agency, and I am 63
Like what exactly? Can you make anything the federal government does that benefits you on a daily basis?
I’m certain you, or most of you, have during your lifetime heard the phrase “it’s good enough for government work.” Nothing more needs to be said about the need to get rid of the rot in our government.
Remember when the “Bringer of Light”, in his last weeks, hid hundreds of apparatchiks from his administration into civil service government jobs just to keep up the resistance against Trump.
When President Trump moved BLM HQ to Grand Junction, CO, only 41 of the 328 employees made the move. 287 retired or found a new job.
If you see the picture of their new HQ, it gives a sense of the size of the building, but that too is misleading. The building was huge. The picture also uses the plants in the foreground to disguise the size and how empty the parking lot always was.
I know. I drove by it daily before I retired.
https://www.cpr.org/2021/01/28/only-41-blm-employees-moved-west-with-their-jobs-nearly-300-left-the-bureau-instead/
Having worked at WPAFB many times of the years every time I would drag up people would ask how could I walk away from such a good gvt job. I gave them a thought experiment.
Divide your money in two handfuls. What the gvt steals from you and what it lets you keep.
Go outside on a windy day and throw the gvt handful into the wind.
That is what the GS’s do with your money and I simply could watch any longer.
I worked with two gov’t secretaries awhile back. They were as useless as moss on a tree. I was a contractor and I worked hard! They took lots of breaks. The colonel of our division loved it when his secretary called in sick because he got me. He even told his family that. He was a wonderful man; gracious, professional and caring. And he had two dolts working for him that he’d never have been able to fire. What a scam!
The country seems to operate just fine when DC shuts down.
We were able to witness that first hand during the Plandemic and during every recent self inflicted “budget crisis” shutdown.
If you have an empire that shuts down and no one notices, then your empire may not have much longevity.
EXCEPT, little employment was degraded in the public sector. They kept their jobs.
Private sector or self-employed citizens took the hit.
I am looking forward to DC being flushed.
Except when the District of Corruption shuts down, they’re all still getting paid by the taxpayers.
Time for them all to be fired. 😊
I think I recently read there are 22 million government employees. There’s 22 million votes right off the bat for the Moron. Then add in 35-40% of citizens who get mailbox money. Then add in I don’t know how many Gen Z’s who will vote for him because he is cancelling their college debt and that’s a lot of votes the conservatives have to overcome. Can we do it?
Why don’t you got out in the public and talk to those regular democrats who didn’t attend college and tell them that they are paying for the collage eductions of the people who have government jobs who make over $100,000 a year and see what they say. People hate unfairness and those democrats who didn’t go to college or can’t send their children to college won’t appreciate paying for someone else’s degree who makes more money than them.
if trump is re-elected the good guys need to be on the scene in the swamp pronto. the baddies need to be told to get out of the WH early just as the zeroes did to the bushies in 2008 and the clintonistas in 1992. my hunch is that the baddies will riot, march, protest and cause lots of chaos (the good guys need to request all the phone records for those in the area where the burning looting etc. takes place) between November and inauguration. in 2001 the clintonistas changed the tabs on the computer key boards, left poopoo in chairs and did other juvenile things one would expect.
the good guys need to cloward priven the baddies day one. overwhelm them. there ought to be at least one person following up on each executive order etc. each day with progress reports daily. if a progress report is missed fire the person. report progress daily to the good guys which is to say trump supporters. make fdr’s first 100 days seem like a millinium.
fire the whole lot of the swamp functionaries day one, too. or if that is stymied / slowed make them turn in their computer, cut off their access to their department, get their badges, change the locks on the doors, make them use the us mail to communicate for follow up questions with their dept for a meeting until fired permanently. basically, no mercy. oh, and give them free clot shots for life.
appeal to our better angels this time: no way.
is there any doubt that these swamp functionaries would turn on a dime if there was a commie coup d’etat. lol. “those people” would gladly screw the good guys right now if they had immunity or the courage to take action.
plus, if I were trump a cam would be on full time in meetings. I would stream to the whole country. make each day totally transparent. let the people see how sausage is made.
my opinion is that the wh never be used again. It will be absolutely riddled with spying devices. Trump should do everything from Maralago, no camp david, nothing connected with the existing structures.
agreed 100%
Another forged FICA warrant would “allow” them to spy on him anywhere AND the two-hops will be fair game for them? Just like 2016?
https://www.project2025.org/personnel/
You have no idea how corrupted, “holier-than-thou” these bureaucrats are! I can write a book on what these bureaucrats have done to my family within the last 25 years.
As the Queen of Hearts had said, “Off with their heads!”
I mean that literally, and not hyperbolic.
SWEET.
The very fact that we have “tens of thousands” of “career” gubmint employees pretty much sums up the whole problem in a nutshell, IMHO….
Career politicians are equally problematic.
No surprise the Managerial Grifter Class is fearful of Trump.
A Constitutional Amendment to require zero-based budgeting…
I have a dream that every federal agency must come annually to the American people (i.e., the House) and argue for funding using zero-based budgeting. Committees and Sub-committees would help audit the justification and business cases.
Can you imagine trying to justify the Department of Education?
The congress will never go for that. The people who occupy these chairs reward the congress critters with donations when the get to keep their cushie jobs and salaries.
The government unions contribute exclusively to the Dem’s!
Stop foreign aid.
Oh they are running their mouths because the party is over. Bring your toothbrush scumbag, you’re going to jail.
DC bureaucrats are mediocrities, AA hires, partisan Democrats, overpaid, underworked, and entitled. They also retire young with large pensions and other benefits that most taxpayers do not have.
I’d like to see the federal civilian workforce cut by 75% and all new hires not have pensions like the people that pay their inflated salaries.
The new hires can have a 401-K?
Their capped contributions will be matched $ for $ by the government, just like many corporations?
gotta shrink the pension load too. In most cases they dont deserve them
NO LIFETIME CADALLAC HEALTH INSURANCE EITHER!
Let them eat Obamacare?
It’s nice to know that professional beauracrats are concerned they may be fired. Someone take the trash out….
Since it’s DC, I’m sure the second he does it, it will be appealed and a DC judge will issue an injunction. And they will stay in place until resolved in……2 weeks……errrr 2 decades.
Maybe he can do a comprehensive change in job description to 10,000s of office supply auditors. Paper clip counters, copy paper counters, rubber band counters, etc. You don’t like your new job, then you can always leave.
“If you are selecting people on the basis of their political persuasion or their loyalty as opposed to their expertise and their commitment to the public good, you’re going to wind up with less good service and more risk for the American people.” (MORE)
Funny because that is exactly what FJB and his Masters have done. Not only that they have hired/advanced people simply because of their skin color, sexual preference, or gender pronouns. For examples on how those ‘qualifications’ are abject failures please see Richard Levine, Karrine Jean Pierre, Sam Briton, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Pete Buttigieg, and on and on it goes. People chosen because they check boxes not because they have proven themselves competent.
My worried, concerned look … 😂🤣
The fastest way to get rid of thousands of dead weight parasites masquerading as federal employees is to give them all one week to start showing up in the buildings holding their agencies or BE TERMINATED.
Thousands of them have been absent from their agency buildings for a couple of years..
No show. No job. This is a simple concept everyone in private employment understands.
I would bet money hundreds of these slugs have moved elsewhere and are just collecting a direct deposit federal paycheck for doing nothing productive. Who would know if they lift a finger?
Good point. They are living large on taxpayer money and doing diddly squat. If half were fired, nobody would notice and the country would run just fine.
The President has the authority to furlough large numbers of federal workers.
That doesn’t mean that the Dem’s wouldn’t try to use the courts, against him…Like they always do?
To add to this all of a sudden they’re pretending they’re concerned about “expertise and commitment to do the job” as something apparently important to the job …
Since when was that a concern?
Oh yeah… since all of a sudden it’s the only selling point they can make up that sounds defensible…
Looks like skin color and sexual identity is no longer the number one criteria for being a government employee.
Another reason to vote for Trump
Learn to code. Lol
Lock Em Up and Free the innocent J6 political prisoners.
The best thing that could happen to the “government” AND the Country at large is to cut the professional federal bureaucracy by 1/2 …. where I come from, that’s what folks call a “good start” …
I hear the song……Anticipation. 🙂
Since when did ANY thinking American Ever believe this statement by POLITICO….” federal government’s ability to deliver basic services in a timely and efficient manner.”
Why fire them? No need to pick that battle per se. He can just reorganize and reassign their duties and task. The rebuilding of America will need TONS of portable potties cleaned and delivered. Streets and highways will need to be swept and cleaned all over the country. It’s up to them if they want to keep those jobs. If they don’t want them, give an increase in wage and sign up bonus to any red blooded patriot who’s willing to do it. There, problem solved.
How about cleaning up the mountains of garbage left by the illegals along the border?
Ooooo, I know what he can do. He can require all federal employees must wear masks during all work hours. The moment they walk in the building to the moment they leave.
Ever see a Democrat resist union contracts with whopping pay increases or stronger union privileges?
Here’s what Biden just did, by decree:
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2023/12/biden-signs-order-finalizing-52-pay-raise-feds-2024/392978/
So, according to Politico, PDJT wants to reduce 50,000 civil “service” employees to a fire-able status.
And they think this would put gov’t services in jeopardy?
Newsflash: The US Dotov employs over 2.2 MILLION people.
So firing 50K of them amounts to a mere 2.27% workforce reduction.
Hell, 2.2% barely represents a “good start.”
Very few organizations couldn’t afford to lose 2.2% of their workers.
And if they can’t, they must be as poorly run as the federal gov’t.
I worry about DT’s physical safety.
One thing I find pathetic is government employees hiring interns to do THEIR work. The interns show up, do nothing because they are on their phones all day so nothing gets done. No one is working. Everyone gets paid. Then, there will be one or two people, who at the last minute, step in to do the job – that should have been done 3 months ago—and finish it in two days.
Offer all of these superfluous civil ‘servants’ a stint in the armed forces. I hear they need warm bodies over there
lol.. good bye watch for the door knob on your way out … the fed, like the general public is carrying a 30% BMI ..they be fat like the rest of us
My fondest wish is that I’ll be able to imitate the president’s unforgettable, “you’re fired!” Join Project 2025, register, do the training and volunteer to clean out the swamp in 2025.
“Policy related positions” is the tell. They could be done away with tomorrow and we would all benefit from it.
Basic services? Bwahahahaha!!! Like what? Taking away our freedom to have gas stoves and cars and functioning appliances and low oil prices? Omg we got a taste of life with the government off our backs for a little while and it was awesome! This would be the best thing ever!
The purpose of a “bureaucrazy” is two-fold, grow the bureau, and protect those who steer it from responsibility!
The two things government slugs and parasites are good at, blowing your money and ordering you around
Why Is Everybody Talking about Project 2025?
https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/heritage-explains/why-everybody-talking-about-project-2025
https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/project-2025