I disagree that those are the only two choices. Another possible implication is that what’s being done is illegal, and people in charge would rather leave than become an accomplice.
That’s not all they’re doing. They’re also locking employees out of the systems and shutting down entire departments.
If it were about firing government employees that waste taxpayers money, we’d have a revolving door at the local, state, and federal level every 2 or 4 years. This sounds more like a religious crusade and political vendetta combined.
Until you, dare I say it, drain the swamp and then everyone left/the new people understand they wont get away with it any more. Then it will mostly stop. Rooting out the hidden waste isnt so much about the waste, it’s about the hidden part. It’s getting where spending authorizations are being marked up in the most generic and non-transparent terms, if not dressed up as something entirely different altogether, to obsfucate what the money is going towards. Like promoting DEI in Serbia businesses and transgender comics in Peru, which would never pass muster if clearly disclosed in advance. And frankly, a lot of it happens because no decision maker has been inclined to put the effort into line by line audits, they just look at and fight over the big totals.
Nearly everyone always complains about goverment waste and the stupid stuff the government spends money on. Yet now when someone is working through the mess to try to fix some of the stupidity, it’s criticized as a bad thing.
We still live in a democracy. The pendulum will swing the other way in 4 or 8 years tops. Then what? Do the same to those that are now on the good side of Trump, Musk, et. al.?
As I said, this mentality looks like a political vendetta and a religious crusade. It strikes of religious fanatism to be obsessed with other people’s sexuality or how money is spend spreading the letter-soup views.
How could analyzing what money is being spent possibly be illegal?
They may be making the recommendations, but they arent the ones doing it. And employees who arent cooperating should be locked out, at least until the review is completed.
Dont be complicit with the circling-the-wagons reaction…
You remind me of the socialist nuts I interacted with back in the 80’s, when I was in college in the old country. Anybody that disagreed with their radical views was accused of being a reactionary. Good grief!
So are you saying you expect the pendulum to swing back to allowing career government employees to spend billions of dollars in the shadows on fringe agendas? As I said, it’s more about the hidden part than the waste part. Once unhidden, most of the waste will resolve on it’s own, because this is a democracy.
The DEI grants given by USAID in other countries don’t amount to $billions. That is hyperbole by the drama-queens. Do I agree with having moneys transfer to non-approved plans? Nope, I don’t agree. But as politicians from both sides would say: “that is how sausage is made,” here and elsewhere. I have no evidence, and neither do you, of what is the real percentage of USAID’s budget “misused” in DEI programs.
And it’s best we just bury our head in the sand? This process will produce some sort of indication of that percentage, then we will both know. And if it is only relative pocket change, then great, what harm has been done in establishing that?
The level of butthurt from those who suddenly have someone looking over their shoulder only makes me more curious about how much there is to find…
All of the candidates could agree that the situation facing the party is dire. The Democratic brand is in the toilet, with a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing 60% of Americans view the party unfavorably while only 36% see it favorably. Democrats lost ground with nearly every demographic group last November, including minorities, women, low-income voters and those without college degrees. “Twenty big cities, Aspen and Martha’s Vineyard—that’s what’s left of the Democratic Party,” lamented former congressional candidate Adam Frisch.
You mean, no harm done with a little purge or two, right?
I think the reason why I’m concerned is because I saw this type of things in the old country, as I mentioned above. So, I do know about purges, drama-queens, and hyperbole to fan the flames among the populace.
Except this “purge” is self-inflicted. It’s people who dont want to or refuse to do their job as instructed. And that instruction amounts to little more than accept some additional oversight.
Once again, if a beaurocrat feels compelled to quit when there’s a push to review where they’ve been directing money, it only makes me more curious about where they’ve been directing money.
It could be illegal if access to the data requires a legal permission from someone other than the President, such as an authorization from Congress, a security clearance, etc, and if such permission was not obtained.
I’m trying, by asking questions and looking for wisdom here on FD.
AfD is like MAGA, they’re taking over many of the normal people who don’t like the violent crimes and social disorder of their Muslim refugees.
Like MAGA, they are currently oppressed by the existing government (talks of how Democracy in German might require banning their party, always a Democratic thing to do when losing, Ala those guys trying to legislate Trump off the ballots), other parties collude to deny them political power, etc, but this just means they’ll take over everything when they win and nearly reach the majority. Even now at ~1/3 they’re very close to having an ability block many government actions that need a 2/3 vote.
We still know almost nothing about the guy who shot and nearly killed Trump. Unrelated I’m sure, Trump’s plan to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds”… of retirement