I’ll drop this here.
D20, you’re on a roll tonight!
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** Benny Johnson**
Dang I thought he was Benny Hill, but Benny Johnson that makes sense.
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Its happening
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I read the article and it was dumb. NY Post doesn’t even link to the actual report (always a red flag) but instead posts a pic of building occupancy as silly means to try and say because a building can hold 2000 people and only 200 actively work there then we must have only 8% showing up.
Look, one doesn’t even need to read the article. All one has to do is use half a brain cell to know it isn’t factual.
There are roughly 3 million federal employees of which, nearly 1 million are active duty military. Do you believe that the overwhelming majority of our active duty military are working remotely?
Do the math yourself.
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TFG likes to do things by EO. If you buy the “unitary executive” concept of “inherent powers”, he really doesn’t need Congress for much of anything. So, the question is how far with the envelope be pushed?
Steve
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You know how it goes? Somebody says “Squirrel” and they all go running chasing the “Squirrel”.
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It sure is!!! just like I suspected. A couple of old guys, sitting on their ses flapping their jaws.
As you can see from the picture, If you read the body language, Thune is saying, “Look Musk, you are an Immigrant, so your an idiot, and we are going to do things my way.”
Look at Musks hands. Musk is saying " Hey this isn’t like one of my companies, I can’t push these guys around, I am Scre*ed."
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I recall a Charlie Rose program when Elon Musk was on with a GM executive in the early days of Tesla and many unfinished Teslas. He was defensive and even shy.
Looks like he has learned much since then. How far can he go to influence Congress?
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What will happen is that once the hiring freeze has been in place for a while, the natural attrition will leave holes in the fabric of the bureaucracy. The work from the empty positions will be divided up between the remaining personal.
Then one of two things will happen. The remaining personnel will attempt to actually do the work and fail, get disgusted and quit, or they will simply lay down on the job and not do anything.
If the government shrinkage team decides to outsource, no problem, the bureaucrat’s the only ones with the required security clearances, will take the pay raises and go to work for the contractors and the resulting cost to the government will be multiples of what it is now.
Cheers
Qazulight
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Assuming we still have a Constitutional government, then not very far. The Republicans have a 220-215 majority, but 3 of those are in line for cabinet positions, so that leaves them with 217-215. Get one, just one Republican to switch and you have complete stalemate, at least until the replacement elections are held. There is no tie-breaker in the House as there is in the Senate, so in spite of the claimed “mandate” this is gonna be a squeaker.
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So here is some of what has been promised:
- Extend the 2017 tax cuts. (Cost: $4.6 trillion)
- Removes taxes on tipped wages ($250 billion)
- Increase child tax credit ($3 trillion)
- Eliminate taxes on social security ($1.8 trillion)
First items on Speaker Johnson’s agenda: tax cuts.
Yeah, this balanced budget thing is going to be awesome.
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Don’t forget the border and immigration reform. And tariffs.
Some are saying tax cut might be delayed until some spending cuts are worked out. Cancel Inflation Recovery Act and claim any unspent funds from previous programs. Trim Affordable Care Act.
Much on the agenda. Will be interesting to see how much he can accomplish.
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If history proves anything it’s that your big initiatives have to happen in the first two years, because the composition of the House and/or Senate usually changes after that.
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In other words the reporter writing the article is in the dark about one of the most important military systems we have. There is no reason for a report to have this information. So the reporter assumes congress does not. Right the reporter knows a lot. Sarcasm.
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