As the story is told, the unwillingness of President-Elect Trump and his transition team to comply with the rules of the bureaucracy in DC this time, has led to the Administrative State refusing to comply with any transition of power, specifically as it relates to Robert F Kennedy Jr and the healthcare transition team.
If President-Elect Trump would just adhere to the DC transition rules, then the DC bureaucrats who run the Executive Branch might be more willing to comply with requests. However, unless and until President Trump accepts the administrative state’s power over him, they are at loggerheads.
Given the “trillions at stake” in the Health and Human Services system, we can only imagine the internal dynamic and pressure from lobbyists to keep their equity stakes as long as possible.
WASHINGTON DC – Advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reached out to the Health and Human Services Department multiple times after Donald Trump tapped him to lead the massive agency, hoping to jumpstart coordination before his takeover in late January. They were rebuffed.
Kennedy’s inability to communicate with the agency he may soon manage, confirmed by an administration official with knowledge of the episodes granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations, is just one consequence of the president-elect’s continued foot-dragging on signing the standard trio of ethics and transparency agreements with the federal government — something his team pledged to do shortly after the election.
The Trump transition’s unprecedented delay in signing the agreements has so far prevented the incoming administration from having any formal contact with federal agencies, including sending in groups of policy advisers known as “landing teams.” It also means they can’t access cybersecurity support or secure email servers for transition-related work, or request FBI background checks for their nominees.
Both the Trump transition and the White House confirmed to POLITICO that negotiations on the agreements are still underway. But until the standoff is resolved, Trump’s Cabinet nominees will gain no more insight than the general public into the workings of the departments they’re supposed to run. (READ MORE)
This isn’t going to end well for the bureaucrats inside the Government’s healthcare system.
Sure hope not!! Things have been going FAR too well for them, for FAR too long, IMHO!!
Take names, and fire them as soon as he is in office. PERIOD.
Arrest and ship to some place isolated and unpleasant., pending status review during emergency.
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Alaska is now losing population, so this is a splendid idea. Send them to the deep freeze.
Democrat Congress person Peltola and Senator Lisa Murkowksi have not served their state well.
Does anyone know if the annual bonus check generated from oil revenues is still in effect?
Has it been reduced? Eliminated due to Bribem’s attack on oil?
Like the Ross ice shelf or Palmyra Island.
Coral reef monitoring is very important.
O T But would help Calm things down. The View should be S Canned,and replaced with,Watch Mr Wizard.At least the little ones would learn something,rather than Hate ,spewed from a gaggle of gosling’s.These clowns can take a IQ of a Hundred and in One hour ,reduce it to negative numbers.
Bureaucrats and crooked politicians.This is what happens when the Monkeys are put in charge of the Zoo.
They need to learn a new phrase.Drag Up.
PERFECT!!! Nothing says “I’m putting myself on the soon to be fired” list then pretending you still have some authority you don’t have.
This is akin to a CHILD SCREAMING at a Storm DARING it to push him…. President Trump IS THE STORM!
There should be NO government healthcare system.
Nope, not according to the Constitution. So I guess it’s reserved to the states. As it should be.
Actually, the Church originally, WAY back when, did it better—out of charity for God’s people, with NO government padding their pockets!
Unfortunately, the system in health care is too big and is easily rigged…look at the occasional news when the govt decides to go after a fraudster or two.
Let them eat cake!
Bugs!
Think about this.A company with about Twelve million employees,the manufacture nothing but paper work,cause millions of problems ,yet the tax payer has to cover the loss to tune of a Trillion or so each year.That is the definition of insanity and self destruction.Then we elect the clowns that keep adding these worthless departments.That thought hurts my brain.
There’s a reason for those big grins on Biden’s face, talking about a “smooth transition”, when he met with Trump.
I never bought the idea Biden was giddy to have Trump follow him. He just believes everything will fall apart on Trump as planned.
Yeah, well he’s an idiot so…
Yep!
Never forget that Obama expelled on short notice dozens of Russian diplomats and their families just before leaving office. The whole pretense of the expulsion was fraudulent. Now FJB’s Alinsky controllers are trying to start a world war.
They all need to be fired, starting at the SES level and above, and then work on the rest of the embeds.
“ But until the standoff is resolved, Trump’s Cabinet nominees will gain no more insight than the general public into the workings of the departments they’re supposed to run.”
So they should all sign in to theconservativetreehouse.com, and absorb the QUALIFIED information put forth by Sundance over the last several years.
Trump is willing to throw Mexico under the bus to stop the illegals but, somehow, US bureaucrats think they are immune?
FAFO baby!
The bureaucrats shall remain in charge until January 20, then all hell is going to break loose. I hope.
Day One:
1. All employees must report to work (office) every day, 5 days a week.
2. Immeduate freeze on all new hires and promotions.
3. All Obama and Biden political appointments inserted (burrowing in) as Federal FT employees relieved of duties.
Ten percent reduction in personnel by Jun 20, 2025.
No bonuses. (Yes, government workers can receive bonuses.)
80% reduction ala Twitter, probably 90% in the case of Government.
Carter got rid of 30% of the CIA one year. I think Trump can do better.
By the way, if there is trouble firing specific people you can just take away their security clearance, computer, phone, and access to federal offices. They would still be on the books but neutered.
Mandate the vaxx
NO!! NOT!! “No way Jose”.
Security clearance should be purged for ALL except select few at highest and trusted levels. It’s out of control and replete with abuse. Needs a complete reset.
great idea and change their job duties as well as locations in alaska
Alaska is too pretty. I choose Central North Dakota.
Vivek and Elon are talking about eliminating full departments.
THAT’S a starting point!!!
I believe if he has Elon, look at the employees he can get rid of 90% of them the first week.
Bureaucrats won’t bend their knee to MAGA Trump.
Trump does not serve their best interests.
Ya don’t need to bend the knee when you’re walking out the door.
There’s a song in that somewhere.
Then their knees will have to be broken.
Pink slip time.
I likewised hoped. Then I watched the AG nomination situation play out. Big loss; very important position.
IMHO, that was not a “loss”….Matt Gaetz just has a different role to play. That was the plan all along. All us paeons need to do is PAY ATTENTION.
Amen, Russ.
I cued up this 4-minute segment from this stream about the gut-punch that was the removal of Gaetz that underscores what you said.
None dare call this chaos. If the fires in the crucible of change.
Is that Waldo drunk and naked on the roof?
Naw… that’s Hunter Biden.
Ain’t gonna look…..is he wearing that stupid scarf?
He’s naked and being covered by the flag! And, he’s guzzling something from a can!
It sounds like RFK Jr and the Trump Administration want to keep their plans private.
They’ve been too open imo about their plans ad hence the push back from the bureaucrats.
BTW, Perot was RIGHT on so many things … that “giant sucking sound” happened.
RIP, Ross Perot. He was a good man.
I voted for him.
Me to Ross was a very good man
“A hand grenade with a bad haircut.” — Rush Limbaugh
Perot wanted to cut education for special ed kids…he was quoted, on HLN or CNN, played on TV at about 3 in the morning…he said something along the lines as they would never be ‘useful’ members of society.
Our family vote for him.
Perot was the 1st MAGA politician, Trump was the second.
What was Reagan?
The one who gave amnesty to 7 million…
“It sounds like RFK Jr and the Trump Administration want to keep their plans private”
…and it’s making the Deep State players exceedingly nervous.
Consider Elon’s abilities with Starlink…and knowledge of electronic communications.
Is that a Where’s Waldo drawing or a Diddy party drawing?
Waldo is behind the American flag.
I think Diddy learned to party from Washington, D.C.!
Mayor Marion Barry, who recently left hiss cocaine at the White House.
And they voted him in again!
Have RFK write a letter, to all employees of every rank possible, asking for operational details of specific and non-specific nature as part of the new boss’s need to know.
Those that don’t answer within the stated deadline are noted (then terminated with cause at his desire).
are there workplace handbooks detailing duties and responsibilities?
One thing Fed is known for…..
Handbooks and Rules.
And those agency/department handbooks and
job descriptions, the employees….
know how to “Work “ them.
And then they have the “big one”
OPM….Office of Personnel Management
with over 2,400 employees.
OPM Home – OPM.gov
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
DOGE….
Could get a lot of information from OPM🤣🤣🤣👏👏
Federal Employment Reports
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ OPM
About Us – OPM.gov
☝️ ☝️ ☝️
Federal Government….it’s all about the paperwork.😳
OMG….I thought you goofing….OPM….🤣 OtherPeoplesMoney…..🥴🍻
Check out their landing /home page….VERY DIVERSE…..😬🙄
Of course.
Union contracts stand in the way as an ‘obstacle’…
And “Job Descriptions”…
They need to give a full description of their specific duties/responsibilities
Create a narrative for each position in a division
Create a flow chart and where each job is in the scheme of things in the division
Show where that position relates to other positions.
No “fiefdoms” – no separate agendas, no unknown and unknowable procedures
in the name of “job security” . . .
eg, no one knows how to do what I do, if I am
not here, they will be sorry
They will just copy and paste their job descriptions and the mission/vision statements.
with no unemployment
Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
The corrupt bureaucrats want nothing to do with RFK Jr,. and some of the other nominees.
And we don’t want anything to do with this sort of bureaucrat.
Firing time is here!
Fire them.
Fire them all.
It’s time to reset the Feral Gruberment to the factory 1776 settings.
And start over with a mind to not return to where we are today.
Reagan fired the air controllers.
Clinton fired 30% of the CIA.
Elon fired 80 percent of Twitter employees with no noticeable loss of productivity.
Productivity increased.
Actually, he fired 90%, and features, functionality and traffic increased.
clear history, clear cache!
👍🏻😆👍🏻
…..Rinse….REPEAT !!
It’s time to reset the Feral Gruberment to the factory 1776 settings
An excellent suggestion!
The firings will take place eventually, but things are probably happening right now.
The tactic of telegraphing the chainsaw approach, is to kickstart the exodus.
The smart ones will get out now and if eligible, take retirement.
Some will transfer to openings that may view as “safe”.
The incoming Presidential Team will remove hundreds of Executive Branch staff, as has been done by many Presidents.
Remaining holdouts, will be reviewed under a microscope for efficiencies and necessity, courtesy of DoGE.
The pink slips will occur in other agencies, once the nominees are approved and seated.
Trump shouldn’t sign anything or agree to any dictates from the Deep State bureaucrats
All he should do is give RFKjr strict instructions to FIRE EVERY DARN ONE OF THEM
No one is irreplaceable. They don’t know that yet.
ROFLOL!!! If they haven’t learned that yet, they soon will!
I hope Trump and everyone on his team are recording specific names of everyone that impedes the transition.
You know he is.
Fire all of them.
The secretary won’t get anywhere if they are employed
Schedule F…coming up.
Hold the line.
Someone’s in for rude awakening.
Fire them all!!!!
Hubris. Arrogance.
Who elected these people? Oh wait, NO ONE.
Fire everyone. Easy peasey!
Seriously, send them all a letter telling them 20 Jan is their last day, no severance.
Any reduction in force comes with a 1 year salary payout.
Let them fight it out in court. If they win in 2027 and get a year of back pay, so what?
It doesn’t work that way!🤦♀️🤦♀️
Not with the Federal Government.
Reduction in Force. RIF
This is really just a basic guideline….
Reductions in Force
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ OPM
Office of Personnel Management
This page covers just benefits.
🤷♀️ 💁
At the bottom of page is worksheet for employees
to estimate how much severance pay they are eligible
to receive .
There must be some kind of loophole therein.
How about a job, a raise and a PROBATION PERIOD for WHISTLEBLOWERS….. To help target the WORST OF THE WORST FIRST……so as not to waste time and resources on office and operative drones….?
Yes.
There are many classification/requirements……
Reductions in Force
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
Guess they’re not finished with their industrial shredder…
This Politico “report” is narrative engineering and nothing more. The basic message is that all the loyal, hard-working employees at HHS will “get Trump” because Orange Man Bad.
If I had to pick between getting no cooperation from the administrative state or getting fake cooperation from that administrative state, I’d choose the former.
HHS is so utterly corrupted by big pharma and big chem that no management at all while the Trump transition team is figuring things out can hardly be worse than what’s in place now.
The value of the info is worthless anyway and they will not self incriminate. No need to pass over bad info. This will show how worthless these agencies are, unneeded and the requirement to be substantially done away with.
Start from Square #1. And do that with budgeting as well: zero-based. That’ll weed out the chaff. Quickly.
I keep remembering how the Clinton minions in the White House plucked all the W keys off the keyboards as they left.
Let’s not forget they are in charge of UACs, unaccompanied minors. They’ve all been moved to the borders to usher in more invaders of the turd world kind.
The American people voted for the complete destruction of the administrative state . There will be no games and no mercy .
they should not even care
just kick the table over and remake the whole thing
it could not be any worse then the garbage we are dealing with
its well past time
This is the MOU in question.
It appears to my untrained eye that there would be more risk than reward by agreeing to this, as the President Elect Transition Team, (PETT), will only get requested information if Bidens’ people wish to divulge it.
https://presidentialtransition.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/11/2913a11c367791bc5cbe730d7893c777-1490911271.pdf
FIRE THEM ALL!
Eff them!!!
My solution. It may be difficult to immediately fire many them so….
Get a few of the large vacant office buildings. Outfit with desks and office trappings. It is called The Department.
Mass transfers to the The Department on day 1.
Can’t fire them but they don’t have to stay in their cushy jobs. They can stay at The Department until they can be processed out
Exactly…………LOL! If I were President Trump, I wouldn’t want some freaking “landing teams”, cybersecurity (copied immediately to NSA, FBI, DOJ, DHS), “secure servers” (copied to the same), or “background checks” to be leaked to the media.
I’m not sure that the nominees need to know the current working of the departments that they are supposed to run.
Seems like Daddy Dollars doesn’t much like the terms. Don’t sign it and just fire everyone on the bureaucratic “landing team”. 🙌🏼
If I recall right, Sundance posted that these “transition rules” were put in place by Obama.
They were not used as currently written prior to Obama.
And I believe it was the GSA in charge of the “transition rules” that gave everything that the incoming Trump administration was doing during the transition to Mueller to do his “fishing expedition” investigation into:
“RussiaRussiaRRRRRUSSIAAaaa”
The people pushing the “transition rules” ruthlessly backstabbed Trump the last time.
Trump knows he was ruthlessly backstabbed the last time.
They know Trump knows they ruthlessly backstabbed him last time.
And still…..they keep trying to act as if he must open up the opportunity for them to ruthlessly backstab him again.
I find it impossible to believe he’s not still being surveilled.
Obozo. It figures.
This is a righteous and beautiful example of why it is so miraculous that we have been given a chance to take back our country.
Just pause for a moment and look on at it, what they are doing right now in this perfect example of what is confronting RFK, Jr.; you can see the old reliables in the “news media” jumping in to add to the cacophony.
I want to remind everyone of that passage from the Bible: “be thou still and know that I am God” . . .
there are these people in the “administrative state” who put themselves above everything and everybody, including the good of the nation and demonstrating stewardship. This bunch puts themselves above everyone, including the three branches of government and cannot abide to be asked questions or told what to do.
This is what you are up against, the officials raiding the treasury; stand back and step back from their muck and mire; they will be fighting each other soon enough as they grapple and wrassle in the mud with each other for every last spoon made by Paul Revere and any other thing that would fetch a good price. These are the “people that know the price of everything and the value of nothing” (as Oscar Wilde put it so well).
What branch are these people working within? What zip code are they in? What is the state of their communications; is it possible that they are unaware that President Donald J. Trump won the election and is going to be back in the White House? What sniveling, chiseling grasp of law are they demonstrating?
Don’t they know that they need to cooperate and be nice? They were apparently brats when they were children, they were bullies as they grew and eventually they will be aged bullies, fighting over applesauce in assisted living, tripping other people in their walkers and plugging up the toilets as a prank. I think these people may even be related to the same folks that poured glue all over the place and pried the “W” keys from the computer keyboards when Al Gore lost.
So, the Democratic Party leadership doesn’t have enough pride and dignity to tell their minions to cool it and get with the program, “we lost” and “don’t be sore losers”.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party leadership is probably fussing and fuming about those troublesome Trump voters that hassled them with phone calls to the Capitol over the Thune leadership discussion.
I can imagine Sen. Mitch McConnell fretting about President Trump under his breath between freezes: “Well, I’m a-going to fix his wagon” . . . sure, you heard him mutter that more than once, Senator Thune.
I wager the Republican Party leadership is pretty fed up with us just as they were annoyed with the Tea Party contingent . . . if we could just be shut down, demoralized, go away and not point out their failure to stand up for our country and for our President, Donald J. Trump . . . and obviously if THEY aren’t being supportive of President Trump, why should the folks in HHS be?
See how that works?
They have a rude awakening scheduled for noon on January 20, 2025. I can hardly wait.
We upset that wagon of the old Republican Party…its up to us to keep the ‘new’ Republican Party.
These bureaucratic MoFoes are so f🤬🤬king FIRED!
what exactly are the rules? and what gives the bureaucrats power to make up their own rules?
Don’t sign anything! Wait them out then cast them out on the street!
The rules are;…we escort you through the transition process to have continuity of govt. and look like we are working together.
The real reason is;…because we facilitate innocent errors, or missteps along the way, to use against you in the midterms and beyond.
A misspoken word, poorly drafted email, perfect phone call, fake sexual assault allegations, the list is endless, as they entrap the newcomers.
Then they build a fake narrative to leak to the media, and twist laws to bring bogus ham sandwich indictments.
Thankfully, this tactic is exposed and PDJT is doing exactly what needs to be done to thwart their objectives, which is to turn the tables and bypass them altogether.
Unfortunately, the incoming Director of OMB has no imagination on how to get rid of people. He still wants to play with the enemy’s playbook.
The Office of Personnel Management manages the civil service.
Really? Russ Vought and his organization Citizen’s for Renewing America have developed budgets and plans to roll back the federal bureaucracy.
Russ handed the GOP House plans on how to start scaling govt back and balance the budget several years ago, back when McCarthy promised to start passing appropriation bills instead of CR’s.
Russ has stated publicly that he is excited to begin working hand in hand with DOGE. So can you provide evidence of Russ Vought wanting to follow the enemy’s playbook because this is the first I am hearing of this.
This isn’t just about the RFK and the healthcare “system”.
They are demanding that the FBI is allowed to do back round checks on his nominees and he must sign agreements with the DOJ. They want to force his nominees through the sieve of the bureaucratic state. They are refusing to transfer power otherwise.
They can demand all they want. There’s nothing in the Constitution or Amendments requiring an FBI background check. It was something introduced by Eisenhower … that’s all.
Won’t work.. firings will start 1/20.
Now we are getting down to the nitty gritty . . . they reveal themselves, soon enough.
Heads should start rolling- termination with cause and revocation of all pensions and benefits. We don’t need these people.
YES!!! Be still my beating heart!!!
Just put your head in this noose and we’ll have things straightened out in no time!
So, on the day Trump is sworn in, he can send RFK over to HHS AND START FIRING THEM ALL.
Hostage taking…plain and simple..
Yeah? Say hello to my friends Elon and Vivek.
I’m forever proud of Trump for NOT GOING ALONG TO GET ALONG.
Screw em! Trumps cabinet will catch up quickly and over come any and all roadblocks prior to day one.
Trumps Day one might as well be called DOOMSDAY for all this evil occupying the hallowed halls of our republic.
yes, all their worst nightmares about to come true.
Trump can eliminate Obama’s procedures once he’s sworn in, but his administration will waste weeks getting up to speed, instead of getting down to work.
They don’t need to “get up to speed”. They go in and tell them what is what. The boss sets the agenda. The worker bees don’t tell the boss what to do.
Who needs them to get down to work?
They obviously aren’t working now, since they have so much time on their hands to plot!!!
You’re fired on day one.
Many presidents have done just that and with no animus attached. It’s just the nature of politics that the Executive gets his people in there to do what he was elected to do.
I suggest not even talking to these bureaucrats, so they can’t plead for their jobs and pull on heartstrings.
Issue blanket notification of removals due to new administration, cite structural inefficiencies and give strict deadlines.
The US Marshalls can handle any holdouts.
I know it’s just an excuse but SD, how important are those ‘Ethics and Transparency Agreements?’
I would consider any hesitation, even the slightest delay responding to a request as grounds for termination of employment. Get with the program or discover the joy of standing in the line at the unemployment office.
Or check the list of vacancies around the country.
“Sorry you’re not happy here. There’s an opening for your job grade in Alabama, North Dakota, Kansas…Alaska is lovely this time of year.”
Transferring someone to a location or a job they don’t want is an old method of getting someone to quit so you don’t have to pay severance or unemployment.
Well then, just shut it down and get back to the proper business of this country instead.
Just fire them all
Why would Trump trust Christopher Ray? Look at the BS they cooked up on Matt Gaetz.
Some of Trumps first term advisors told Trump he was the guy after Sessions . Those advisors were enemy combatants but Trump didn’t know any better at that time . I have much more confidence that he has a much better grasp on things now but not quite good enough I’m afraid . His advisors need to be stellar and 100% trustworthy and I’m not convinced at all that they are from what I’m seeing with some of these picks .
Fire the bureaucrats who resisted in such a way that they lose their pension. After all, when it was decided to ship our jobs overseas, then it was ‘free market efficiency’. Well, ‘efficiency’ is about to rain down on them.
And, they did not do a damn thing when our kids were getting sick with their vaccine and dyes. I guess we won’t do a damn thing when they get kicked to the curb.
Reciprocation. Suck on that.