"Trump’s EO 13957 was a dagger aimed directly at the heart of the beast. It might have worked."
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Schedule F to pay respects
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"On January 21, 2021, the day after inauguration, Biden reversed the order. It was one of his first actions as president. No wonder, because, as The Hill reported, this executive order would have been “the biggest change to federal workforce protections in a century, converting many federal workers to ‘at will’ employment.”
How many federal workers in agencies would have been newly classified at Schedule F? We do not know because only one completed the review before their jobs were saved by the election result. The one that did was the Congressional Budget Office. Its conclusion: fully 88% of employees would have been newly classified as Schedule F, thus allowing the president to terminate their employment.
This would have been a revolutionary change, a complete remake of Washington, DC, and all politics as usual.
Trump’s EO 13957 was a dagger aimed directly at the heart of the beast. It might have worked.
It would have gotten us closer to the restoration of a Constitutional system of government in which we have 3 – not 4 – branches of government that are wholly controlled by the people’s representatives. It would have gone a long way toward gutting the administrative state of its power and returning the affairs of state to the people’s control.
The action was stopped dead due to the election results."
It seems to me that this is the whole reason the election was so blatantly stolen. This was life or death for the fourth branch of government better known as the "deep state".
The planning for the steal had to start a long time before this EO was drafted unless Trump had it written and waiting his whole term which is a possibility. I see it more as a shot across their bow that ensured they'd go through with the steal that he already knew was going to happen.
Good point! I suppose it is pretty near impossible to undo the damage that's been done to our government without just dissolving the whole thing. EO's were never meant to be the method of governing so the whole balance is off. I know Trump likes to do everything "legal" so it will be interesting to see how this mess can be resolved.
Yeah, motivation to cheat harder, and with 3 months notice before election, much sloppier.
Anyone think the military has been in control since sometime during early in Obama's second term? They had to have these plans ready to discuss with Trump in advance of his running for office in 2014 or in order to convince Trump that 'now is the time'. Wonder if the master plan included Trump as part of it, and not 'everything' started/designed with Trump and his EO? Nothing against DJT.
Thomas Wictor suggested that we may have been in a partial devolution under Obama. The fact that someone was able to leverage McConnell to block Obama's judge nominations is a small bit of evidence towards this, imo.
Fraud vitiates everything including the reversal.
The only things that can be vitiated are things that happened. Things that didn't happen...didn't happen. Too bad.
A thing that happened was Biden reversing this EO.
You are right. I was reacting to the blocked Supreme Court nominations. I am sometimes confused by the order of the thread. My apology.
Good point!
Agree. The Trump Team's plan worked....