Ayup, and another $1-$2T from DOGE. So all the money saved, plus the cuts in legit spending that benefits the general population, go into the pockets of the “JCs”. That is what I would expect from a “pro-growth” regime.
Steve
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Same is truenof FAA and OMB
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You must have missed the piece where they assured us with a straight face he would excuse himself were there any conflict of interest.
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Speaking of arbitrary cuts:
The firings created days of chaos inside the agency. Officials backtracked on the terminations Friday after multiple members of Congress petitioned Energy Sec. Chris Wright to reverse course, explaining the dire national security implications.
Move fast and break things. No risk there right?
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"A memo sent to NNSA employees on Friday and obtained by NBC News read: “The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel.”
They’re asking supervisors and coworkers for information on how to contact people they let go. I guess you can say clown cars are super efficient…but they’re filled with clowns.
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they were locked out of their federal email accounts … The Administration was unable to reach the people that were fired to rescind the order.
The DODgg Crew sent a memo out to the NNSA staff members to “get in touch with the people responsible for designing, building and overseeing the US nuclear weapons stockpile asking them to return to work.”
Unfortunately the memo went out to emails that were also deleted. Not to mention, no one is sure who they are suppose to contact.
Today, DODgg fired 980,000 civilians at the Defense Department. Across the board termination of civilian employees who are not active military personnel. What could go wrong?
Clown Car in Motion
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Are you sure? That would be, like, all of them.
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Latest:
the CDC is currently working to rescind job terminations of federal employees, particularly those considered essential workers who were performing critical roles that could not be easily replaced, following a wave of firings that affected a significant number of staff members; this action is primarily focused on reversing terminations related to crucial public health functions.
DODgg sent terminations letters across the board to all CDC employees with job descriptions with 200 words or less.
According to DODgg they don;t know the names of the over 2,000 CDC Agency Employees who were terminated, their job history and emails were deleted along with the termination notices
Clown Car in Motion
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Not only is that unbelievable incompetence, I’m sure it violates data retention policies and laws.
Clown car in motion, indeed.
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A one percent increase in the Military Budget is more than the entire CDC budget for 2024
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I think we are still underestimating Trump. Budget deficits are the pretext for defunding these Federal agencies. The real goal is to seize control of them. It worked for Mussolini and it is working for Trump.
I don’t know if dictatorship will be good or bad for the stock market and my moral objections are irrelevant to macroeconomics.
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I think we are underestimating Curtis Yarvin, personally. Who is absolutely advocating for a complete wholesale reduction of the federal government and a ruling techno-monarch. That monarch will not be, however, Trump.
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We already have that in de facto President Musk.
Pete
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The consequences are just beginning.
But in the ensuing days, there’s been a growing concern that the dropping of a federal humanitarian food program could also have a doubling-back impact on U.S. farmers.
The Food for Peace program, once a bastion of Cold War-era soft power, was historically a source of income and markets for heartland farmers, with the federal government purchasing surplus crops. And it’s historically had a Midwestern imprint. Minnesota agribusiness, farmers could be hurt by Musk's shuttering of USAID
In 2024, USAID bought $2B in surplus crops from US farmers.
Much of what was funded by USAID will be reorganized to other departments. Not much savings and less efficiency. For example, the two GOP senators from Kansas are pushing moving the Food for Peace program to the USDA. USDA to Oversee Food for Peace Program
This will require a much bigger staff at USDA. USDA needs much bigger staff to run Food for Peace program | Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc.
Eliminate one agency and recreate it again somewhere else.
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I’m pretty sure that, overall, they will be contracting with private companies to do the work that used to be done by Federal employees. It will cost more and be more complex. That is the way these things usually work out.
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Although there would be added flexibility.
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But it will have less waste. Wait a minute…
Hmmm. Like there is more flexibility in a piece of yarn I push on? (and at times absolutely yes, competitively bid contracting with solid inspection and testing along the way is much better than pure governmental work).
Competitively bid competition can be really great, and can really suck (hello Boeing!). National Defense and Public Health can be solidly empirically shown to be more efficiently done by governments than by businesses.
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Like you could let the contract expire and try a different company or no company at all. DOGE simplified.
DB2