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The Biden administration is setting a booby trap in case a Republican wins the presidency in 2024.
Last Friday, the White House unveiled a proposed rule that would make it even harder than in the past for an incoming Republican president to wrestle control of the left-leaning federal bureaucracy and actually implement the conservative policies promised to voters.
Of the 2.2 million federal civil workers, only 4,000 are presidential appointees. The rest stay in their jobs, from one administration to the next, protected by rules that make it nearly impossible to discipline or replace them.
They overwhelmingly favor the Left. A staggering 95% of unionized federal employees who donate to political candidates give to Democrats, according to Open Secrets. Only a tiny 5% support Republicans.
Some federal workers in high positions slow-walk or even derail a Republican president’s agenda — and get away with it.
Why bother to vote if the left-leaning deep state stays in charge no matter who wins the presidency?
GOP candidates Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis are vowing to conquer this obstructionism.
Everett Kelley, union president of the American Federation of Government Employees, claims GOP contenders want to “politicize routine government work.” Nonsense. We’re not talking about mail carriers. It’s time to make lawyers, PhDs and other top-level career bureaucrats implement the president’s agenda, not their own.
After Trump won in 2016, they went to town neutralizing him on almost every policy front, explains James Sherk, special assistant to the White House Domestic Policy Council under Trump.
Career lawyers in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division flat out refused to challenge Yale University’s discrimination against Asian American applicants. Trump had to recruit lawyers from other divisions. After Joe Biden became president, the DOJ dropped the case. But the same career lawyers who refused to sue Yale made the losing argument in support of affirmative action before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Career health officials like Dr. Deborah Birx circumvented Trump’s instructions to moderate COVID lockdowns. Environmental Protection Agency lawyers pursued cases against fossil fuel producers and withheld the information from Trump appointees.
Trump mandated in a 2020 executive order that new federal buildings be designed to please the public, which prefers classical designs. Instead, General Services Administration architects chose modern designs they like. Trump mentioned as an example the San Francisco Federal Building, the ugliest edifice in the city.
It goes on, including weaponization of the FBI against the president himself.
In October 2020, Trump issued an executive order that federal workers who make policy should be reclassified as at-will employees who can be terminated.
But before it could be implemented, Biden became president. He canceled it immediately, knowing the bureaucrats were on his side.
The rule announced Friday would slow a president’s ability to reinstate Trump’s order. Democrats in Congress are going further, pushing to eliminate the president’s authority to reclassify jobs altogether.
The New York Times announced, “Biden Administration Aims to Trump-Proof the Federal Work Force.”
Ramaswamy vows to go further than Trump, eliminating half or more of civil service positions. “Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you and you can’t fire them, they don’t work for you,” he said in a speech on Sept. 12.
New York Magazine facetiously claims holding employees accountable is a threat to good government, and warns that a Republican victory will mean “a new class of federal appointees charged with a partisan agenda.”
Democrats and their media allies falsely romanticize civil service, claiming it protects “merit” over patronage.
Merit was the intention when the civil service was created in 1883 by the Pendleton Act. But merit is largely gone. Scramble those five letters and what you’ve got is the “timer” system. Federal workers get bigger salaries and fatter benefits than private-sector workers doing comparable jobs. And they almost never lose their job, no matter how derelict they are. They put in their time and skate to a gold-plated retirement package.
It’s a gravy train, paid for by John Q Public. That’s sickening enough. But it’s even worse when these civil “servants” put their own leftist leanings ahead of the president and public they’re paid to serve.
Bravo to the GOP candidates pledging to take on the deep state — replete with deadbeats and lefties — and return government to the people. It’s a worthy fight.
Shame on Biden for protecting bureaucracy instead of democracy.
Not in America.
Betsy,
We’re not a democracy,;Donald Trump and Mike Pence had trouble understanding the difference between a constitutional republic and a democracy. Or, maybe they didn’t.
Excuse me … ? … It’s the Dems who flat-out do NOT believe in a constitutional republic … and they never have! That’s why “Democracy™” is their favorite word …
If we were a Democracy, then the school system working to hide Transgendering from parents would be outlawed. Well over 90% of parents want to be informed and to have decision making power. If a Democracy means 50%+1 wins the agenda, then Democrats are not Democrats, they are nothing but Marxist Liars.
Ramaswamy vows to go further than Trump, eliminating half or more of civil service positions. “Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you and you can’t fire them, they don’t work for you,”
He uses the Pareto principle which states 80% of anything is achieved by 20% of the inputs.
So basically he could fire 80% of government officials and the public would still be served.
I have worked with governments in many countries and he is correct. But, you have to get rid of the right 80%. Whenever there’s government cutbacks they ask for voluntary redundancy, then the 20% apply to leave because they see an opportunity, so the 80% of lazy officials sit and collect the benefits.
Get rid of all civil service workers. Anything which “needs” to be done will be done much more efficiently by those individuals who need it than by ANY government organization. There will, by definition, be far fewer non-productive hands in the funding pot. All needs are local and should be organized, funded and executed locally. This minimizes widespread corruption which cannot be avoided in government operations and keeps the providers honest or out of work. KISS.
The solution is quite simple and well within the power of the executive branch: Simply withhold all funding with the exception perhaps of building maintenance costs, over every single agency and department. Period.
Naturally, Hawaiian Judges Buch M. Danno and Tyne E. Bubbles will immediately issue an injunction and the Left will scream bloody murder.
Of course, all of this is moot since 2024 is likely already stolen with the requisite 85 million billion ballots already filled in for Biden. They better have erasers handy if he doesn’t last the next 14 months!
Trump’s policy should be a goal of every GOP candidate
Yes, Trump and Ramaswamy are still the only ones saying the things that need to be said.
Haley is the sharpest of the bunch…not named Trump. Too bad she attacked him too often; she would have made a great VP.
She’s pro homosexuality which is what is rotting our children’s minds, No way.
Trump’s policies are the blueprints for a better future for all Americans.
I have a solution that will work.. Start with job eliminations. Reduce the workforce by say 2 million useless feral welfare recipients. Then make those cuts permanent
The scheming by the globalist New World Order never ends to take over and if you’re weak, you’re done. If you think this nation will ever get another fair election, you’re dreaming.
It was a mistake for citizens to let a huge federal bureaucracy of arrogant, Leftist apparatchiks become ensconced in the D.C. Swamp.
Every federal department needs to be relocated to a location in a rural location in one of the 50 states, outside of D.C., and, severely downsized. That would be a start. See how many bureaucrats want to leave a major city and live in the countryside.