2025 MAGAt Presidency First Days / First Week in Office Insanity Thread

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It is. Massie has introduced it at least four times already.

Via ChatGPT
Republicans have introduced legislation to abolish the Department of Education multiple times since its establishment in 1979. While there isn't an exact count, notable attempts include:


  • 1981: President Ronald Reagan proposed eliminating the department, but Congress did not act on it.
  • 1995: Republicans in the House, led by Rep. Steve Gunderson, introduced a bill to eliminate the department as part of the "Contract with America," but it failed.
  • 2010s: Various Republican lawmakers, including Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie, introduced bills to abolish the department.
  • 2017: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a bill (H.R. 899) to eliminate the department, arguing education should be left to the states.
  • 2021: Massie reintroduced the bill, continuing efforts to dismantle the department.
  • 2023: House Republicans proposed multiple bills to downsize or eliminate the department, reflecting ongoing conservative opposition to federal oversight of education
 
doge officials bully their way into USAID SCIF, Vorhees put on leave for trying to protect sensitive documents from those without clearance to view them, followed by 'top officials from USAID’s office and the bulk of the staff in USAID’s Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs were put on leave later Saturday.' Many of those suspended weren't told but found themselves locked out of their computers.

Amid the turmoil at the agency, Matt Hopson, the USAID chief of staff and a political appointee, resigned, according to a current and former USAID official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. Hopson did not respond to requests for comment.

Voorhees was put on leave after he did not allow DOGE officials to access a sensitive compartmented information facility — commonly known as a “SCIF” — an ultra-secure room where officials and government contractors take extraordinary precautions to review highly classified information, according to three current and former USAID officials.

A group of about eight DOGE officials entered the USAID building Saturday and demanded access to every door and floor, despite only a few of them having security clearance, according to senior Senate Democratic staff members who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the incident.

When USAID personnel attempted to block access to some areas, DOGE officials threatened to call federal marshals, one of the Democratic aides said. The DOGE officials were eventually given access to “secure spaces” including the security office.
the nazis are in the building: conform, ignore protocols and law, bend the knee, kiss the arse or become enemy of the state... musk called the government agency "evil” —a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America.” And, in true nazi fashion, "USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=8d37922b061e41999577cc5e844e5d35&ei=28
 
Education Dept workers forced on leave after attending diversity training as encouraged by DeVos... they're locked out of the email system, doing no work, but receiving full pay and benefits but worrying they have to choose between quitting or getting fired. How the fuck is THAT efficient?

the 55 (minimum, of hundreds who attended during trump v.1) affected include:
a public affairs specialist, civil rights attorneys, program manager analysts; loan regulators and employees working to ensure special needs children with individualized education programs get necessary accommodations from schools.

“I think it is shock and awe. They’re trying to send us emails that make no sense and are super confusing, to intimidate us or to make us run scared so we quit,” Smith said.

“They’re trying to make employees feel like they will soon get fired. And at the same time, they are trying to entice employees with an offer to pay them eight months salary if they just resigned," Smith added. "So it seems as if you’re choosing between affirmatively resigning, where they’re saying that you might possibly get paid eight months salary and benefits, or eventually getting fired.”

Subodh Chandra, a civil rights lawyer who is representing one of the employees placed on paid leave in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, told NBC News that his client was appointed to the employment, engagement and diversity and inclusion council formed during Trump’s first term by his political appointees, Kimberly Richey and Kenneth Marcus. Chandra said his client is a West Point graduate, an army veteran, and a former prosecutor who is confused about being placed on leave.

“My client, a veteran, did nothing to violate any executive order. Nor did any of his similarly situated colleagues. He doesn’t even run a “DEIA” project. He was only a member of an inactive committee on which he was appointed by Trump’s own political appointees from the first term," Chandra said.

doge don't care; musk wants them out, doesn't even care who just how many he can get to throw in the towel in order to show he's 'saved' trump some big bucks but with nothing to show about improvement of the system he's gutting. Just like all the others.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=8d37922b061e41999577cc5e844e5d35&ei=85
 
Musk's goons have seized control of the Fed payment system and plugged their own hard drives in. Without any security clearance obviously.

So the entire contents of the system are now somewhere in Musk-World. Names & addresses of every worker, bank details, salary, next of kin, telephone contacts, private email addresses, plus details of every contractor/supplier.

Now he can work out the social media usernames of all those people who don't like Trump. On every platform. Read their posts. See what selfies they've posted. See which stores they've visited, it's endless.

And some weirdos are fine with this information being held by unknown people without restraints.
 
the CDC, trying to conform to trump's DEI removal demands, wipe tons of vital health data from its website. In his first term, trump did away with the advisory board but it was reinstated by Biden VIA Congress and federal law to serve the interests of the American people in situations related to health data.

The removal of the datasets took place on Friday, as part of a governmentwide effort to comply with Trump administration orders prohibiting public communication related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, with an emphasis on anything tied to gender and sexuality.

At the CDC, that has led to the removal of public datasets like the Youth Risk Factor Behavioral Surveillance System, which ― as the official CDC website formerly stated ― is “used by health departments, educators, lawmakers, doctors, and community organizations to inform school and community programs, communications campaigns, and other efforts.”

Also gone from the CDC website is information about the Social Vulnerability Index, which officials use for disaster management planning, as well as AtlasPlus, where data on HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis could be accessed.

All of that is in addition to the removal of other health information, like web pages for the public about PrEP, the antiviral medication to prevent HIV transmission.

in other words, don't let the medical professionals inform you, believe what your nazi overlords tell you to believe and stay ignorant or formerly publicly available, vital data sets.

The advisory commission has no power other than its public voice, and 10 of them decided an open letter to the CDC's acting director—demanding written responses to questions about the whys and wherefores of the removals. This second term was being sold as 'transparency in gov't'; transparent, indeed, are their aims and actions, but there's nothing transparent about vital data that should be there that gets erased so it cannot be accessed by the medical, educational, lawmakers and community officials that rely upon it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...p&cvid=cf5d3b8e47d14d1483d0fde432da9fd4&ei=70
 
Heard a pertinent question this morning:
Why does anyone think that the guy who is notorious for ignoring agreements for payment is going to honor the buyout agreements?
 
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