The Dems are fumbling right now. They have zero leadership. Let's face it, they had Biden, dead from the neck up, and then Harris, even dumber if that is possible. And Schumer is a true putz. But the total political incompetence for the Dems will not last forever. At some point, they will find their posterior, perhaps with a flashlight.
The argument above is exactly right. Everything done via EO will be subject to reversal, complete reversal with the election of the next Democommie. Trump would do well to get Congress involved in what he is doing and get them on board. You think the cowardly Republicans are on board? I don't.
And unless I am mistaken, he got kicked in the teeth with the US AID BS. Granted, discovering that fraud is magnificent. The courts are not going to support his eliminating civil servants, folks with 3+ years of service.
It was announced today that the CDC will jettison 10% of its workforce. Those of you that think that a good idea, you might just think again. The people getting jettisoned are highly educated folks, hard to find. The departments jammed to the rafters, like those working on HIV/AIDS with swelled budgets for a disease that is largely on maintenance are hardly being touched. So, when the next major outbreak comes, and it will, the CDC will be that much further crippled to respond.
So, I do not think what he is doing is well thought out, and I know for fact they have not taken a thorough look at the block of work in each agency and determined what cuts make sense.
A bunch of computer geeks barely out of their teens are not the folks that should be examining each agency for proper cuts. They are clueless, and mark my words, they are digging a hole for Trump. I have done this type work my whole life, and there are many ways to approach streamlining operations, and I know this approach is the least successful long term.
They may know how to find data that displays fraud, but they do not know how to determine what is the proper staffing for each agency. What good is what they're doing if the next Democommie reverses it all? And they will. As a reminder, Biden undid almost everything Trump did but tariffs.
And Trump has not touched any of the intelligence agencies. You want to save money in the government, start with the big line items. Trump just terminated 10% of the CDC, and is talking about eliminating 1,000 positions in the IRS. Biden just hired 84,000 to further harass Americans in the last year, and he is getting rid of 1,000 of the IRS. That is a whopping 1% or LESS. NOT IMPRESSED!!!!!!!!!!
With 2.4 million federal employees, and 7 million contractors excluding postal and military, why does he insist on attacking the employees and not touching the contractors, which are more costly? Why? And contractors are not subject to civil service protections. No judge will stand in the way if he reduces contractors. He would know this if he had people that know what they are doing, verses the teen geek squad.
And for those of you that believe the fed employees are not working, get rid of the contractors, save about$500 BILLION and put the employees to work. The dead heads will leave because they will not be able to deal with the workload, and the savings, which is what I am focused on will be lasting, and not just during the years of Trump as POTUS.
All the court activity will actually slow his efforts down, which is what the Dems are hoping for. I say avoid the drama, avoid the stinking courts, and produce results that stand the test of time.
And he is pissing everyone off, do you really think the Republicans are going to pass ONE, TWO, TEN pieces of legislation that Trump wants? He should have done the legislation first, and had DOGE compile their findings and launched implementation after the legislation was completed. Trump can terrorize the federal workforce, but he will not terrorize Congress. They are real good at doing nothing! And he cannot fire them like Putin has dealt with the Duma!
