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now that I've answered your direct question, DMX7, perhaps you can answer mine
what do you think of Republicans adding trillions to the deficit with new tax cuts?
we know people got fired and a lot of important people took the voluntary retirement DOGE offered at an agency that was already short staffed, why do you ask?
now that I've answered your direct question, DMX7, perhaps you can answer mine
what do you think of Republicans adding trillions to the deficit with new tax cuts?
Well it seems kind of relevant...
I wanted to know if anyone fired at the FAA directly impacted this. You brought it up so I thought you might know but apparently you don't. You seem to think it's plausible but you don't actually know.
Ok, fair enough.
I'm not a republican. I think the tax bill is nuts and not fiscally responsible. I think it will get better in the Senate but both parties aren't seriously addressing the budget deficit.
There are only a hand full of true deficit hawks like Chip Roy who don't just concede to every special interest group.
if you want to argue that DOGE didn't provably up the FAA fine, that's an interesting side to take
I think it'll all come out in the wash eventually, we'll see
Wilmer-Hale EO struck down in its entirety as uncons utional
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...33.110.0_2.pdf
Trumplandia ed up an already ailing FEMA even worse
To be fair, the last FEMA chief got canned for saying it wasn't going to be eliminated, so the intent here is fairly clear
Pretending FEMA is still a functional agency while strangling it to death is happening all over government...the GOP can't/won't pass laws repealing US agencies, so I guess it has to be done in this blatantly ad hoc, uncons utional way
"The will of the people" moves across time and ins utions, it isn't just the very last election -- Trumplandia is being wildly undemocratic
In an internal memo obtained by The Handbasket that was sent on Thursday to Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson by Stephanie Dobitsch, Associate Administrator for Policy & Program Analysis, Dobitsch outlined the status of “critical functions” at the agency that a working group determined were at “high risk” of not properly functioning because of “significant personnel losses in advance of the 2025 Hurricane Season.” ...
One slide in the memo, which was also shared with approximately 30 members of FEMA senior leadership, pertains to staffing at Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, a critical high security facility in Virginia. (It contains the nuclear bunker where congressional leaders were stashed on 9/11.) The slide states that “staffing was already at a critical low at the beginning of 2025” and because of departures “the facility is at risk of not being fully mission capable.”
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-...-internal-memoAnother slide in the memo details the high risks facing FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery—what a FEMA staffer told me is “THE disaster response program.” It lists issues with Resource Deployment; Disaster Staffing; Operational Guidance; Planning, Training and Exercising; Interagency Coordination; and Pre-Staging Assets. “Failure to mitigate or eliminate identified risks in critical functions will challenge the Agency's ability to execute response and initial recovery operations and may disrupt life saving and life sustaining program delivery,” the slide reads.
Under the heading of “Resiliency,” the memo details the high risk of “Potentially lapsing almost $3B in grant funding to hundreds of direct grantees and thousands of subgrantees.” It attributes the issue to, among other things, “Inability of ICE to advise on Sanctuary Jurisdictions and accept role for program design.” The resiliency slide also notes the high probability of “Timely Payment of Flood Insurance Claims” being disrupted.
The memo also notes that FEMA Mission Support lacks critical Information Technology (IT) infrastructure to “build out secure and maintain services supporting local field office disaster operations.” In other words, they lack the technical manpower to quickly stand up a field office when disaster strikes.
Trumpy police state ramping up
Trumplandia playing fast and loose with the taxpayer's money
and usurping the role of Congress
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...rs/ar-AA1FETDGDeLauro and Murray pointed to Vought's removal in late March of an OMB website that made federal spending allocations available to the public as evidence that he is depriving "the public of information they are en led to in law but also undermin[ing] Congress' ability to carry out its legislative and oversight functions."
Further, they wrote, under Vought's direction the OMB has developed "inconsistent and inadequate spending plans for fiscal year 2025 submitted by departments and agencies under section 1113(a) of the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act."
"Many agencies' plans still have yet to be submitted or blatantly omit basic funding details at your agency's direction."
The bill was passed in mid-March, with departments and agencies required to submit a complete "spending, expenditure, or operating plan for fiscal year 2025" within 45 days of its passage.
"These spending plans were due to the appropriations committees on Tuesday, April 29," wrote DeLauro and Murray. "Four weeks have now come and gone, and while the committees began receiving some spending plans from departments and agencies consistent with the 45-day requirement, many agencies' plans still have yet to be submitted or blatantly omit basic funding details at your agency's direction."
The lawmakers pointed to the spending plans of the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services (HHS) as evidence that the OMB and the Trump administration have "demonstrated an inability to effectively and efficiently manage public resources."
The Department of Education's plan was submitted on the deadline of April 29, but "completely omitted dozens of specific programs and activities."
The education do ent also said nearly $13 billion was "unallocated," though much of that funding is directed for specific purposed by law. A revised plan sent to Congress on May 23 still included $8 billion in "unallocated" funding and lacked "detail on dozens of programs now with only four months left in the fiscal year."
The spending plan submitted by HHS included the label "Hill Version" in the file name—suggesting there was another internal version that the agency headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not sharing with lawmakers.
The HHS do ent included only "high-level funding amounts" and provided no funding information for hundreds of programs.
"Instead, it lists 530 asterisks in place of details about how this administration is choosing to fund—or not fund—hundreds of programs that the American people count on every day," wrote DeLauro and Murray. "We need to see the 'real version' of HHS' spend plan, and we need to see actual funding amounts—not asterisks—for these vital programs."
The lawmakers demanded that the OMB comply with section 1113 by the end of May "and ensure that all spending plans contain sufficient information to demonstrate how each department and agency intends to prudently obligate all amounts provided by Congress."
uncons utional impoundment
everything like this that Trump does is per se impeachable
last month inferior courts were 96% against Trumpper se evidence of Trump's lawlessness
Trump rekt the presumption of regularity in the first six months
a mighty advantage forfeit for a much reduced staff
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
"He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world".
"For imposing taxes on us without our consent:"
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...
"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."
Fire
Never aim
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/0...eople-00400404The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating more than 400 people who had received layoff notices, according to an email from CDC leadership to employees seen by POLITICO.
The rehiring, announced internally Wednesday, marks the largest number of employees that the agency has asked back to date.
co-President Miller wants to ethnically purge LA
this doesn't look like efficiency nor cost cutting
but maybe that was never the point
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/polit...idle-employeesThe US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees.
The payments could continue for years amid a long court battle over cuts ins uted by the Trump administration.
The department has already paid more than $21 million to idle employees over the last three months, AFGE has calculated, after they were terminated in March when the agency cut nearly half of its workforce. Roughly 1,300 people were laid off and hundreds more took voluntary “buyouts.”
The firings were part of President Donald Trump’s larger plan to dismantle the Department of Education and promise to deliver efficiencies through cuts across government. Dozens of other agencies have faced cuts in recent months, with workers in those departments facing similar situations.
Under the terms of the layoffs, affected Department of Education workers were to be paid their salaries until June 9, their last day of employment.
However, following a May federal court decision blocking White House plans to shut down the agency, the workers were reinstated and placed on “administrative leave” — meaning they are employed but not allowed to work — as lawsuits continue.
This means salary payments will now continue past Monday, while employees remain in what many describe as “administrative purgatory,” racking up further costs for the department.
According to AFGE Local 252, which analyzed over 900 salaries of affected employees, the true cost to the Department of Education is well over $7 million a month as the figure does not include employee benefits or managers’ pay.
just out of curiosity, on what authority does Trump rely on for liberating a US state and its principal cities from their elected government?
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