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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,244 posts) Wed Nov 20, 2024, 08:56 PM 10 hrs ago

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy outline plan for 'large-scale firings' in federal workforce under Trump

WASHINGTON — Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlined a plan Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump to oversee a massive reduction in the federal workforce, arguing the employees won't be needed after Trump eliminates "thousands of regulations" in his next administration.

Musk and Ramaswamy, who Trump last week named co-heads of a new Department of Government Efficiency, singled out in a Wall Street Journal op-ed federal employees "who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections."

The duo pointed to recent Supreme Court decisions to argue the incoming president has the executive power to nullify many regulations, pursue "large-scale firings" of federal workers and relocate some agencies outside of Washington. They said "a drastic reduction in federal regulations" would require vastly fewer federal employees.

"DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions," their op-ed reads.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-outline-231614768.html

These two clowns are going to find this is harder than they think it is.

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Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy outline plan for 'large-scale firings' in federal workforce under Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 10 hrs ago OP

That will be recessionary. All those cuts in payroll and the things they spend on /nt bucolic_frolic 10 hrs ago #1

This should help most Federal Employees keep their jobs too, thank you Joe Biden..... a kennedy 9 hrs ago #2

if traitor is going to deport people Marthe48 9 hrs ago #3

bucolic_frolic

(46,970 posts)

1. That will be recessionary. All those cuts in payroll and the things they spend on /nt

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 08:59 PM

10 hrs ago

a kennedy

(32,066 posts)

2. This should help most Federal Employees keep their jobs too, thank you Joe Biden.....

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:04 PM

9 hrs ago

The Biden administration announced a final rule Thursday aimed to protect federal workers and make it harder to fire them, in an effort to prevent former President Trump from gutting the workforce if he’s reelected.

The rule, issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), clarifies that nonpartisan career civil servants with protected status can’t have that status taken away, and it prevents nonpartisan career civil servants from being reclassified as political appointees.

Trump in 2020 issued an executive order to allow reclassification of thousands of federal employees, which would take away their protections. When President Biden entered the White House, he revoked that executive order, which the White House said “risked altering our country’s long-standing merit-based civil service system.”

The White House said that Trump’s order, known as “Schedule F,” “would have stripped career civil servants of their civil service protections that ensure that decisions to hire and fire are based on merit, not political considerations.”

This new rule is expected to prevent Trump from another executive order of this kind if he’s reelected. It clarifies that policymaking classifications cannot be applied to nonpartisan career civil servants, only to noncareer political appointees.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4574163-biden-administration-new-rule-makes-it-harder-to-fire-federal-workers/

Marthe48

(18,984 posts)

3. if traitor is going to deport people

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:11 PM

9 hrs ago

wish he'd start with these 2

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