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Two budget staffers resigned after voicing concerns about halted Ukraine aid, official says
The Hill ^ | 11/27/2019 | Rachel Frazin

Posted on 11/27/2019 10:27:56 AM PST by CarmichaelPatriot

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To: CarmichaelPatriot

I don’t believe this for one nanosecond. Total BS. They were already planning to retire or something similar. Where would they go? Where else can you get GS pay for sitting down with your thumb up your @ss 8 hours a day? Utter and total horsepuckey.


21 posted on 11/27/2019 10:49:19 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Good! Two more Democrats are now off the government teat!


22 posted on 11/27/2019 10:49:40 AM PST by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Ok, there was a hold.

Ukraine officials didn’t know about it.

These people only “heard” about it.

Has anyone published the presidential directive that would have been required to actually execute the hold?


23 posted on 11/27/2019 10:54:11 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Trump didnÂ’t want an AG, he wanted a consigliere.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Yet they did not resign under Obama when he sent blankets and MREs to Ukraine. Flaming hypocites.


24 posted on 11/27/2019 10:54:32 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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25 posted on 11/27/2019 10:56:12 AM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

So a couple of tax money thiefs quit. GOOD!~ I hope many more follow, voluntarily or not~@!


26 posted on 11/27/2019 10:56:30 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuAJcWl6DE Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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To: wardamneagle

Did the article happen to get into when they got their jobs?


27 posted on 11/27/2019 10:56:35 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: CarmichaelPatriot
He was also asked whether the OMB legal division employee said they were leaving "at least in part because of their concerns on frustrations about the hold on Ukraine security assistance."

So they would have left then if Congress had not passed the appropriation bill to begin with...They had nothing to do with whether the money was appropriated or not...

I don't believe even a little bit of this story...

28 posted on 11/27/2019 10:59:02 AM PST by Iscool
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Having them resign was probably not the intent, just an added bonus. It’s nice when the swamp drains itself.


29 posted on 11/27/2019 11:02:29 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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Yup, those budget staffers are certainly the folks that we want to make decisions concerning other countries. Little bitty people with little bitty educations thinking they have great big responsibilities.

They got a little civics lesson on who gets to make foreign policy (and who doesn't)

30 posted on 11/27/2019 11:04:36 AM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

So they have well-paying JOBS FOR LIFE, and they ‘resign’ (and I guess go on welfare) because they aren’t allowed to funnel money to a corrupt government halfway around the world?

Right.

FAKE NEWS

There are only 3 reasons that people leave those kinds of Civil Service jobs:
1) They retire.
2) They are killed (if tied to the Clintons, as in Barbara Wise).
3) They are offered a much higher paying job by CNN (if they were coup plotters and now need money for legal bills)

But NO!!! They don’t ‘resign’ from those jobs over something like aid to a corrupt government (unless that government was kicking back some of the money to them).

We are, once again, getting played here.


31 posted on 11/27/2019 11:06:32 AM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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WHY the HELL would a person with a CUSHY, WELL-PAYING JOB, uber Benefits, and a RETIREMENT PENSION QUIT because of this????

UNLESS THEY were getting KICKBACKS from this money and didn't want it to stop!!

32 posted on 11/27/2019 11:06:40 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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“It is my understanding they did not resign over the Ukrainian aid.”

Agree, simply more FAKE NEWS.


33 posted on 11/27/2019 11:07:25 AM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

I never knew that supplying Ukraine with millions of dollars was so important to government employees.

This is absurd this is like me resigning from my job because my CEO won’t release funds to build a factory in Malaysia.

Who are these people?


34 posted on 11/27/2019 11:08:01 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Okay. So what?


35 posted on 11/27/2019 11:09:42 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat..... & ERIC CIARAMELLA")
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To: DesertRhino

BINGO!!! The DEmocrats in DC are TOTALLY in Ukraine’s corner WHILE it was known that it was a TOTALLY CORRUPT COUNTRY!! hmmmmmmm


36 posted on 11/27/2019 11:09:47 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

So, with this revelation and a cab license, you could get a job.


37 posted on 11/27/2019 11:14:36 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot
Imagine that you are a "budget staffer" and you see an "authorized" line item that has a hold on it, with no explanation.

Isn't that exactly the type of crisis that YOU would resign over?

38 posted on 11/27/2019 11:19:21 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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Two down, fifty thousand to go.

Since when is it news when two ticks jump off the dog?

39 posted on 11/27/2019 11:21:34 AM PST by blackdog
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Conversation at the break room:

Fred: Hey Joe, my 30 year anniversary is coming up on September first. I’ve been working on this Ukraine aid package, and I really don’t want to put this on Joan before I leave cause it’s pretty complicated and it might take a few weeks for her to get up to speed. I sure wish that State would give us the OK to close the books on this. Do you know what’s holding up the payments?

Joe: I’m not sure, but I heard that the President is concerned that the money could find its way into the hands of some crooked Oligarchs and then be used to bribe politicians here and in Europe. He has until September 30 to release the funds per the Appropriation so I guess you will just have to retire before that happens.

Fred: Bummer.


40 posted on 11/27/2019 11:23:06 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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