Posted on 08/05/2017 3:50:37 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Government employees are growing increasingly willing to criticize or defy the White House and President Trump’s top appointees.
A handful of current and former career staffers in the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have openly shredded their superiors within the last several weeks, continuing a trend that has developed throughout the government over the course of Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office.
The growing opposition in the executive branch comes as the White House’s legislative agenda has stalled in Congress and Trump turns to his Cabinet agencies to change course in several policy areas. It also is emanating from career staffers or political holdovers whose resistance to Trump has, at times, been rooted in deep opposition to the president’s agenda.
“From our point of view, it’s kind of obvious,” said Jeff Ruch, the executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) group, when asked about staffers’ growing pushback.
“You have Donald Trump, who ran and said he would drain the swamp, meaning them.”
Trump’s allies have often cast the president as the victim of the “deep state,” an entrenched, liberal bureaucracy bent on damaging his agenda through leaks and resistance.
They argue the deep state extends from agencies such as the EPA, where employees could be angered with Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate deal, to career service intelligence agency staff who leak damaging information about the president.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday even accused special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director now investigating Russia’s involvement in last year’s election, as representing the “deep state at its worse.”
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Best News I have heard all day..
If the GREENIES are mad ..
Trump must be doing something right
Fire. Do not replace.
Why not, Trump seems oblivious to it, hell he has Obama left overs in the White House.
perhaps there are some imminent fedgov job openings for freepers in DC?
Well, can they be fired and replaced with patriots that prefer to work FOR the good of the country?
Crazy talk, I know.....
Correct. These fools think they are teflon. Show them what happens to Teflon with a mar
Fire all their sorry @$$E$
“Fire. Do not replace.”
Exactly. If EPA or any of the other red-tape agencies get down to a skeleton staff, so much the better.
The Romans had a policy they called “decimation”
I think that would be a good place to start in draining the swamp.
Once a quarter, every tenth bureaucrat is sacked, regardless.
Damn’ straight! Fire, Fire, FIRE each and every damn’ one of them and don’t replace them!
Trump’s signature phrase WAS you’re FIRED!!!
So—let’s HEAR IT!
Trump has always been a democrat,seen with democrats..The only area they differ is business and taxes...I think that’s one reason he keeps democrats around..He has been around them for years...Either that or the deep state has him so buried,he just doesn’t seem to know how to get rid of the swamp...
“Fire. Do not replace.”
Exactly!
Start moving the agencies out of D.C. Move the EPA to Houston. Move the DOT to New Orleans.
Exactly!
Read it and weep, folks: Here’s Why It’s All But Impossible To Fire A Fed
I talk to DoD employees on a regular basis, and they are finally able to breath again after 8 years of tyranny.
The Feds you have to worry about are:
CIA
TSA
DOJ
EPA
FBI (sadly, because of Obama)
BLM
The Border Patrol, ICE, and now the Dept of Homeland Security are doing their jobs! And they love doing their jobs.
Support the military. Support those defending our borders. Support our medical personnel at Walter Reed.
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Give them an specific order with a certain expected outcome and deadline. Wait for them to refuse. Then fire them for cause.
Replace them with veterans. All civil service employees should be vets anyway.
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