Trump's second-term agenda plans a purge of the federal workforce
Source: Washington Post
July 26, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
While Donald Trumps agenda and a massive think tank document clearly indicate his second-term strategy for federal workers, nothing captures those plans as succinctly as a statement made by his running mate.
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If Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, were to give Trump one piece of advice, he said in 2021, it would be fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state. Replace them with our people.
Vance pushed that line on a podcast, when he was running for the Senate, his first elective post. His office did not reply to questions about the statement, but the Trump campaigns response makes it clear that a purge is the plan. Republicans have long favored hiring more private companies to do government work, but Trump has also taken particular exception to career bureaucrats he blames for blocking his agenda in his first term.
President Trump and Sen. JD Vance will take swift and unprecedented action to protect Americans from the out-of-control Deep State, fire rogue bureaucrats and career politicians, and return power back to the American people, Karoline Leavitt, the Trumps campaign national press secretary, said by email. She concluded with a Trump quote from a campaign video: I will shatter the Deep State, and restore government that is controlled by the People.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/26/trump-agenda-project-2025-federal-workers-schedule-f/
No paywall (gift)
Over half the federal workforce already iS "contracted out". And every time there is a government shutdown, THEY don't get paid.
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hlthe2b
(104,704 posts)in 1995--after months of New Ginchrich et al demonizing Federal employees for EVERYTHING-- just to hurt Clinton. Morale was so low among the workforce and obviously only became worse thereafter. I thought there would be a reassessment of such Congressional and RW media tactics--but if there was, it was for a nanosecond. Rush Limbaugh spent the other side of his big mouth (that not attacking women as "Feminazis" ), to continue attacking those who received a Federal paycheck (or Federal aid).
It is beyond time for the sane democracy-loving populace of this country to put a stop to this propaganda and hate-filled targeting.
How's that rotting in hell going, eh, Rush?
BumRushDaShow
(137,091 posts)my federal worksite was undergoing some interior renovations, with restoration and repainting of the 1930s artwork all along the ceiling/rotunda of the lobby, plus was being made ADA-compliant, including what would eventually be the addition of a ramp at the front entrance. There was a big sign out front promoting the project with our building's name prominently displayed.
Next thing you know, that sign was removed, the building's name was wiped from tourist maps, all of the side entrances (one of which I used to enter and exit as it was closest to where I parked) were closed for good. Eventually in came the magnetometers and picture IDs, etc., and the exterior fisheye cameras were upgraded.
This was all BEFORE 9/11.
People were glad when Gingrich was finally booted from office but as I warn people continually here, he is STILL around and behind the scenes stoking this crap. I still like to post this from 6 years ago because you can see how it manifested -
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trumps rise. Now hes reveling in his achievements.
Story by McKay Coppins
November 2018 Issue
Updated on October 17, 2018
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On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College. But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before himhe had come to foment revolution.
One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we dont encourage you to be nasty, he told the group. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics. For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to raise hell, to stop being so nice, to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat war for powerand to start acting like it.
The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those whod survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a permanent minority mind-set. It was like death, he recalls of the mood in the caucus. They were morally and psychologically shattered.
But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. His idea, says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
Dan
(3,882 posts)I know that sometimes when you seek the private sector to do something, you get exactly what you paid for
. And many a laugh I have had when that has happened.
You have to ensure that every contingency is covered, every article identified, and every letter has the dot above it
cause if it aint in the contract it will not be delivered. If an addendum to the contract, you will pay out your nose.
And they will not tell you prior to the contract what you neglected to include or what was not covered, thats just good business on their side, but a huge unexpected expense once discovered and contract signed.
You definitely get what you paid for - there is a reason that private business is for profit and government is for common good.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,765 posts)I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
― John Glenn
Lonestarblue
(11,193 posts)The jobs will be filled with Trump loyalists with no ethics, no expertise, and no allegiance to the law or the Constitution. All lid out by Project 2025.
bmichaelh
(524 posts)Self-fulfilling prophecy
Show how incompetent the federal government in hiring loyalty over competence.
keithbvadu2
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