As the DOGE turns.

[DeluxAuto]

 

[Rightguide]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1895094710571585608

 

[Rebel5soul]

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Of course Mr. Cohen is the ultimate source on these things.................right?

 

[Politruk]

Now they say the head of DOGE is a civil servant named Amy Gleason.

The acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.

The White House on Tuesday afternoon identified Amy Gleason as the acting leader of DOGE, which has been pushing agencies to fire employees, cancel contracts and make other budget cuts.

Although DOGE’s cuts have been championed by billionaire Elon Musk and his associates, the White House has insisted that Musk is overseeing the effort as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, not a DOGE employee.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Of course Mr. Cohen is the ultimate source on these things.................right?

No, you no reading dumbass. There are no illegals on social security so there are no savings to eliminate them.

Did all of you MAGAts drink from the same fountain of dumbfuckery this morning?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1894492192237851013

https://twitter.com/x/status/1894760813744853388

 

[Rebel5soul]

Damn good thing the legacy media is out there doing their job. I had absolutely no idea how many hole in the wall agencies of our government were CRITICAL to the governments function, especially when their sole purpose seems to be giving taxpayers monies away. How will we ever survive? [/sarcasm]

 

[Politruk]

Judge rules mass firings illegal.

A federal judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration's firing of thousands of probationary employees is illegal and should be stopped.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup says the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must rescind directives sent to some agencies ordering them to fire their probationary employees — typically those in their first or second year in a job.

Alsup issued the temporary restraining order at the end of a hearing on Thursday. His order covers agencies whose firings impact the civic organizations that sued the Trump administration. Those agencies include the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Park Service, the Small Business Administration, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

The lawsuit, originally brought by labor unions and later joined by the civic groups, alleges that OPM unlawfully ordered agencies to carry out the firings.

"Statements from officials at multiple federal agencies admit that the agencies carried out the terminations not at their own discretion, but on the direct orders of OPM," the coalition's attorneys wrote in a court filing.

Underpinning their argument is the fact that, while OPM handles many human resource functions for the federal workforce, it does not have Congressional authority to manage the employees of other agencies, a point that Alsup underscored in court.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Just another judge that can't read the Constitution. Fuck da judge.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Just another judge that can't read the Constitution. Fuck da judge.

Why don't you ever comment on the massive DOGE fuck ups?

 

[Rebel5soul]

Why don't you ever comment on the massive DOGE fuck ups?

List them.

 

[DeluxAuto]

List them.

Fuck off. They're plastered will over your thread, dipshit. You're willfully ignorant, ChodeBum.

 

[Rebel5soul]

I see no MASSIVE anywhere. I see missteps and a shit pot of hysterical hyperbole, but no MASSIVE.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Just another judge that can't read the Constitution. Fuck da judge.

Why don't you go and point out where the Judge was wrong. Your opinions are worth less than used toilet paper.

 

[Politruk]

Just another judge that can't read the Constitution. Fuck da judge.

You do not know more about constitutional law than that judge.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Why don't you go and point out where the Judge was wrong. Your opinions are worth less than used toilet paper.

Of course. They are on probation and therefore provisional and subject to dismissal at anytime. But taking that one step further, they are employees of the executive branch and like ALL such employees serve at the pleasure of the president. It is by no perversion of the law that those judges throwing up these 'speed bumps' are losing at virtually every turn. And, as expected, they have acted as agent provocateurs to the point that the SCOTUS is now getting actively involved and that is not working to those judges benefit.

 

[Politruk]

But taking that one step further, they are employees of the executive branch and like ALL such employees serve at the pleasure of the president.

Not since the Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, they don't.

 

[Politruk]

And, as expected, they have acted as agent provocateurs

That is not what agents provocateur do. Not even as a metaphor can you stretch that concept to include judges.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Of course. They are on probation and therefore provisional and subject to dismissal at anytime.

It's not like I'm not taking your word on this. Oh wait, I'm not. Go get a citation to prove this.

But taking that one step further, they are employees of the executive branch and like ALL such employees serve at the pleasure of the president.

I'm thinking some of the laws passed by Congress overrule this, and I'm pretty sure the AFGE will agree you're wrong.

It is by no perversion of the law that those judges throwing up these 'speed bumps' are losing at virtually every turn. And, as expected, they have acted as agent provocateurs to the point that the SCOTUS is now getting actively involved and that is not working to those judges benefit.

Which rulings have been thrown out?

Maybe point them out on this list.

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

 

[Rebel5soul]

Not since the Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, they don't.

And THAT is exactly what is being tested and the constitution is on the presidents side..............any president not just Trump. You clowns fail to realize that this has been being gamed out for 4 years.

 

[Politruk]

And THAT is exactly what is being tested and the constitution is on the presidents side..............any president not just Trump.

No, it isn't. There is no reasonable argument that the Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 is unconstitutional. Not even in its present formation can the SCOTUS entertain that possibility for a second.

You clowns fail to realize that this has been being gamed out for 4 years.

Not by Trump -- he doesn't have the brains. By the Heritage Foundation. See Project 2025.

See also this thread, which goes directly to this aspect of P2025.

 

[DeluxAuto]

I see no MASSIVE anywhere. I see missteps and a shit pot of hysterical hyperbole, but no MASSIVE.

They took down their own fake findings from their website. $60 billion "in savings" evaporated.

How drunk are you?

 

[Rebel5soul]

Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 1. One very simple, declarative sentence written in plain English. Even an so called attorney that got their degree from the mail correspondence institute of Lower Bumbfuckistan should be able to read and understand. Further, no president can sign away the constitutional rights of ALL subsequent presidents and only a shit house ambulance chasing attorney with a degree from the aforementioned institution of higher learning would believe otherwise.

SCOTUS will decide and I don't like your odds of prevailing.

 

[Politruk]

Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 1. One very simple, declarative sentence written in plain English. Even an so called attorney that got their degree from the mail correspondence institute of Lower Bumbfuckistan should be able to read and understand.

Trump: "There's Article II, which means I can do whatever I want."

No, it doesn't.

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:[1]

That does not mean all federal employees serve at his pleasure. Two centuries and more of case law say it doesn't mean that. It does not even support that "unitary executive" bullshit that the W Administration tried to sell.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Can't wait to see your Amicus Curiae Brief.