Trump Executive Action thread

[Winehole23]

backtracking detected

This week, a memo sent from the Department of Interior to park service officials said the agency could hire 7,700 seasonal employees this year, up from the roughly 6,300 who have been hired in recent years.

If fully implemented, that would be a notable exception to the government-wide hiring freeze imposed when the Trump administration clamped down on the federal bureaucracy, threatening to eliminate entire agencies, offering “deferred resignation” to almost all federal workers and firing tens of thousands of career employees.

The reprieve for the parks is “definitely a win,” said Kristen Brengel, senior vice president of government affairs for the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Assn., which obtained a copy of the memo that was shared with The Times.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...arks-employees

[Winehole23]

Trump's war on America hurts real Americans

The Trump administration’s swift, sweeping cuts to the federal workforce is set to derail the livelihoods of potentially thousands of military families.

The turmoil within the military community caused by the recent firings of probationary employees, looming terminations and a rolling series of deadlines for federal employees to return to work should not be surprising.

For decades now, the federal government has marketed itself as the employer of choice for military spouses, who are unemployed at five times the national rate despite being more educated than their civilian spouse counterparts.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/polit...uts/index.html

[Winehole23]

Military spouses and their families move involuntarily every two to three years, on average. As a result, it’s not unusual for those who work in the federal government to frequently change positions or even organizations within their agencies.

Many are perpetually probationary employees — the category of worker the Trump administration targeted in its recent first round of firings.

They can be probationary employees even when they have spent years and years in federal service.

Arielle Pines had proudly clocked 15 years working at the Department of Veterans Affairs when she was fired by email last week, despite years of exceptional performance reviews.

“It’s not just people who are new to the federal government,” she says, pushing back on a common misconception about probationary employees who are getting the boot.

“There are five of us [in my office] who moved over from other HR departments. We are military spouses, we are veterans, one with 18 years.”

[Winehole23]

scammy, like the boss

She’s trying to appeal through the Merit Systems Protection Board, but Trump has tried to oust the administrator, raising concerns about whether the independent agency charged with protecting federal employees from improper firings can arbitrate cases like hers.

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scammy, like the boss

Whatever it takes.

[Winehole23]

Trump to seniors, disabled and rural Americans: DROP DEAD

On April 1st, the Trump administration will implement a nearly billion-dollar cut in Medicare telehealth. Concerns grow as Americans who use telehealth services face limited options for remote medical care.

Adults over 65, people with disabilities, and those living in rural areas will be most affected as the primary users of telehealth resources. Telehealth services involve healthcare provided by a patient’s primary doctor or other healthcare providers located across the U.S., using video and audio communication technology. According to the American Medical Association, nearly 4.2 million Medicare patients accessed care through telehealth in the first quarter of 2022.

https://balleralert.com/profiles/blo...l-be-affected/

[Winehole23]

move fast and endanger natsec

The CIA is conducting a formal review to assess any potential damage from an unclassified email sent to the White House in early February that identified for possible layoffs some officers by first name and last initial and could’ve exposed the roles of people working undercover, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

That’s just one of multiple aftershocks from President Donald Trump’s push to take a jackhammer to the federal government – including the CIA. The administration’s efforts to cut the workforce and audit spending at the CIA and elsewhere threaten to jeopardize some of the government’s most sensitive work, current and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations say.

Across the river in Washington, a senior career Treasury Department official delivered a memo warning Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that granting a 25-year-old computer engineer with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to the government’s ultra-sensitive payments system risked exposing highly classified CIA payments that flow through it.

And on the CIA’s 7th floor — home to top leadership — some officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/polit...ump/index.html

[Winehole23]

could be big -- the firing of six employees from six different agencies has been deemed unlawful by the Office of the Special Counsel

by law their recommended 45 day stay goes into effect if the Merit Systems Protection Board does not decide in three days what to do with the request

An independent federal oversight agency has deemed at least some of President Trump’s mass firings of probationary period employees unlawful, creating a pathway for those employees to regain their jobs.

The Office of Special Counsel, the agency responsible for investigating illegal actions taken against federal employees, issued its decision for six employees, each at different agencies. While the decision was technically limited in scope, it could have immediate impact on all terminated staff at those six agencies and could set a wide-ranging precedent across government. It has not been made public and was provided to Government Executive by a source within the government. OSC, which did not provide the do ent to Government Executive, verified its authenticity.

OSC has turned the case over to the quasi-judicial Merit Systems Protection Board for enforcement of its findings and is so far requesting a 45-day stay on the firing decisions. The agency said it will use that time to further investigate the dismissals and determine the best way to mitigate the consequences from the apparent unlawful actions.

MSPB has three business days to issue a decision on the stay request. If it does not act by that deadline, the stay will go into effect.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/20...stated/403218/

[Winehole23]

By law, agencies terminating employees in their probationary periods must do so because their “performance or conduct demonstrates that they are unfit for federal employment.” OSC found, however, that agencies had mass fired their employees without specifying what performance or conduct issues individual employees presented. In some cases, agencies did not cite performance or conduct at all. It noted the language agencies used in their termination notices were “quite similar” to one another and none of the firing letters “provide any detail or individualized assessment.”

OSC investigated the backgrounds of the employees who made the complaint to the agency and found none of them had any indication of poor performance or conduct in their histories and instead had received only exemplary evaluations.

“Based on public statements, the agencies’ decision to terminate large numbers of probationers was to accomplish reorganizations and cost savings,” OSC said. “In other words, a RIF.”

Agencies improperly firing their employees have denied them of pay, benefits, possible accrual of tenure and due process rights, OSC said. Some employees, due to their high performance marks and federal layoff procedures, would not necessarily lose their jobs under a RIF.

Some of the probationary firings more specifically violated rules surrounding those dismissals, OSC said. Agencies must use the “trial period” to earnestly assess employees’ performance.

“This requirement is not a simple bureaucratic technicality—compelling agencies to assess the specific fitness of each employee prior to terminating them ensures that outstanding employees are not arbitrarily lost and that terminations are truly in the best interests of the federal service and consistent with merit system principles,” OSC said.

[Winehole23]

"if we remain very still and very quiet, maybe people won't notice us"

https://theonion.com/democratic-lead...-notices-them/

[SnakeBoy]

[Winehole23]

:zzz

[ChumpDumper]

Why?

[Blake]

"if we remain very still and very quiet, maybe people won't notice us"


https://theonion.com/democratic-lead...-notices-them/

I know it's the Onion but can you blame them?

[Winehole23]

I know it's the Onion but can you blame them?

yes I can

If they can't up the parliamentary process they can at least act like leaders of people, because I tell you what, once Trump starts arresting and killing opposition lawmakers, there is no official help.

[Winehole23]

, I wouldn't be at all surprised by US judges getting arrested or murdered by Trumplandia for merely being adverse.

or otherwise harassed and murdered by their officially tolerated paramilitary cadres

or by their reserve army of patriotic lone wolves

[Winehole23]

ignoring court orders

apparently the law is just advisory for Trumpies

The National Ins utes of Health (NIH) is still blocking most ongoing scientific funding over concerns about “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI), according to NIH sources and internal NIH correspondence. The freeze has continued even after top NIH officials acknowledged that continuing to block the funding would violate a federal court order.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...raining-order/

[SnakeBoy]

[Blake]

yes I can

If they can't up the parliamentary process they can at least act like leaders of people, because I tell you what, once Trump starts arresting and killing opposition lawmakers, there is no official help.

Well yeah if Trump starts killing opposition lawmakers, that's why I wouldn't blame them

[Blake]

Of course law enforcement, border and defense are exempt lol. Fear mongering to get votes and big private contracts equal wins for everyone except tax payers

[Winehole23]

WOW, HOW MANY IS THAT?

[Blake]

WOW, HOW MANY IS THAT?

Next he'll sign an order to remove ALL street gang members from Congress. Now!

[Winehole23]

Next he'll sign an order to remove ALL street gang members from Congress. Now!

starting with Chuck Schumer

[Winehole23]

"Shout-Yell Calculator of Patriotism, Heterosexuality, and Nationalistic Tendencies"

The problem with the Biden administration was that they hired based on partisan and arbitrary criteria like “has experience doing this type of work” and “hasn’t been credibly accused of sexual assault.” That’s how we ended up with a deep state full of leftist cronies -bent on pursuing Marxist priorities like stopping companies from dumping toxic sludge into the water supply, preventing planes from crashing in midair, and making sure people don’t get murdered by domestic terrorists.

Thankfully, Donald Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, has come up with a much better system: having the candidate yell into a device that Elon calls the Shout-Yell Calculator of Patriotism, Heterosexuality, and Nationalistic Tendencies. Or SYCOPHANT.

Using the SYCOPHANT is easy. When the candidate comes in for the interview, the interviewer simply has them scream into the SYCOPHANT at the top of their lungs about the topic of their choosing. In addition to assigning a score based on decibel level, the machine awards points for things like:

• Making an argument that immigrants were responsible for famous unsolved crimes like the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.
• Espousing promising new conspiracy theories, like the FBI replacing their agents with artificially intelligent humanoid robots in the late nineties.
• Using the word “crooked” followed by the name of any Democratic politician
• Giving specific and detailed compliments about either Donald Trump’s or Elon Musk’s physical appearance
• Number of racial slurs used per minute (RSPMs)
• Voicing support for Christian values. But not hippie Christian values like kindness, forgiveness, and charity. Real Christian values like “Now is the perfect time to start a holy war”
• Pitching any product that could make the Trump family a quick buck, including but not limited to MAGA meme coins, Trump-branded M4 assault rifles, or light therapy wands that increase men’s testosterone levels by shining infrared beams at their nuggets

Bonus points are awarded if the candidate has previously made similar remarks on Fox News, OAN, YouTube, or their podcast.

Unlike Joe Biden’s DEI hiring, the SYCOPHANT’s scoring system is fair. While DEI takes things like race and ethnicity into account, the SYCOPHANT is totally race-neutral. Just because the SYCOPHANT awards points for being racist doesn’t mean it gives preference to candidates of a particular race. It’s totally possible to be racist against your own ethnic group. Just ask Marco Rubio.


So if Trump’s government ends up being made up almost entirely of vein-popping-angry middle-aged white guys and a few extra-huffy white women, it’s just because they were best suited for the job.


And don’t worry, when food is no longer safe to eat, children are regularly dying from nineteenth-century diseases, and you can’t get disaster relief for your hurricane- and fire-ravaged home until you bribe the right guy at FEMA, we’ll still find a way to blame it all on minorities.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/...ls-the-loudest

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WOW, HOW MANY IS THAT?

Excellent. He'd better be settled on the point of ass kicking every in' one of 'em out of this country. And not allowing them to apply for citizenship the correct way because they broke & entered to start with.

OUT!!!