Trump Team Barred from Agencies Amid Legal Standoff

Monday, November 25, 2024

Politico writes about federal agencies having to deny the future leaders access because "the president-elect's continued foot-dragging on signing the standard trio of ethics and transparency agreements with the federal government -- something his team pledged to do shortly after the election."

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Let the firings begin - Jan 21st, 2025

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-25 11:53 AM

Let the lawsuits begin - Jan 22, 2025.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-25 11:55 AM

let the machine sales / repairs begin.

those paper shredders are going 24 / 7.

#3 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 12:07 PM

Let the firings begin - Jan 21st, 2025

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds

fed workers are bitching that Musk and Viveck are gonna make them go to to the office 5 days a week.

and that will lead to mass resignations.

oh no.....oh no....oh no....."the humanity"....

ALSO....taxpayers are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars....or more....to lease and upkeep of

buildings where 7 % of the work force shows up....

that kind of BS drove the harris campaign into blowing a billion AND another 20 mill.

and still she was a loser..

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 12:14 PM

It's too bad about the Nooner... now the dimmies have no place to, well, to be so dim without all the pointing and laughing.

Fun times, though. It's like when Reagan turned all the mentally ill out onto the streets.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-25 12:20 PM

Break down the bureaucracy

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-25 12:29 PM

lmao... Trumpers now call Laws they don't like, 'bureaucracy'.

Cultists gonna cult.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-25 12:34 PM

It's too bad about the Nooner... now the dimmies have no place to, well, to be so dim without all the pointing and laughing.

Fun times, though. It's like when Reagan turned all the mentally ill out onto the streets.

#5 | Posted by Corky

way to stick with the topic......

haven't seen your boy kudzu posting.

not that I'm complaining.

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 01:16 PM

Trumpers now call Laws they don't like, 'bureaucracy'.

#7 | Posted by Corky

what a stupid thing to say.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 01:18 PM

Cultists gonna cult.....SQUAAWWKK

#7 | Posted by Corky

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 01:21 PM

Cultists gonna cult.

#7 | Posted by Corky

aaaaahh ha ha ha ha ha ha....

cults don't have 77 million people in them....that's a revolution and biggest turn to the right since 1980....

----a cult has a few thousand people with blue hair / pronouns or shave their hair to look like

skin heads to protest nazis and make stupid bigoted comments on yellow backgrounds...

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 01:26 PM

cults don't have 77 million people in them.

So 1 billion Muslims aren't in a cult by your admission?

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-25 01:27 PM

or is that dIffErEnt?

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-25 01:27 PM

make stupid bigoted comments on yellow backgrounds...

AND they all say the same!!!! stupid bigoted comments...

almost as if they were,,,,,a "cult"

aaaaah hahahahhahaha

#14 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 01:28 PM

lmao.... ShrimpD gets all screamy when you point out that he's 300 lbs overweight.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-25 01:29 PM

So 1 billion Muslims aren't in a cult by your admission?

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite

I don't consider them a cult regardless of their despicable history of human rights violations.

but that's because I'm not a bigot.

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 01:34 PM

lmao.... ShrimpD gets all screamy when you point out that he's 300 lbs overweight.

#15 | Posted by Corky

geese a lou....that would make me like.....480....

or almost as fat as Jerry Nadler....

#17 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 01:36 PM

come on maaaan....go ahead and sign the MOU....

and be ready for the 21st......there's over 1.1 million lifetime taxpayer parasitic bureaucrats

who need to get their --- kicked out...

they'll have jobs though......I hear there's gonna be some leaf blowing / landscape jobs

opening up soon in Martha's Vineyard.....

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 03:36 PM

there's over 1.1 million lifetime taxpayer parasitic bureaucrats

That will be replaced by just as many different ones.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-25 03:37 PM

or is that dIffErEnt?

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite

sorry,...didn't see this.

you're not gonna get some anti muslim....or what you would call anti muslim comment

from me.

lol

#20 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 03:40 PM

That will be replaced by just as many different ones.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL a

yeah I don't know....I'm guessing you're mostly right....as in replaced....but not as bloated....

depends on DOGE I think....

#21 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-11-25 03:46 PM

- I think....

#21 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Meritless propaganda.

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-25 04:22 PM

For those who have forgotten Trump likes to fire people on Fridays. I expect by week two he will fire his first cabinet official. My guess is it'll be RFK Jr

#23 | Posted by Tor at 2024-11-25 04:26 PM

Let the firings begin - Jan 21st, 2025

#1 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

I love how these s%#^bags claim to hate big, overly powerful government, only to elect and cheer for what's probably going to be the biggest, most intrusive government wielding power they shouldn't have.

Getting an imaginary boogeyman is far more important than maintaining their supposed principles and values.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-25 08:42 PM

Break down the bureaucracy

#6 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Governance by short sighted stupidity.

#25 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-25 08:43 PM

"Ethics are bureaucracy!" shouted the Trumpists, who bravely decided that fundraising among rich donors was more virtuous than national security or transparency with the American people.

#26 | Posted by cbob at 2024-11-25 08:58 PM

What do these people do that they will be firing?

These are the people that review and issue permits.

These are the people that review and approve grant applications.

These are the people that develop the regulations that implement the laws that congress passes.

These are the people that audit to assure that money spent by the government is spent correctly and legally.

These are the people that do the research that guides policy and regulatory efforts.

These are the people that enforce regulations.

These are the people that make sure your SS checks are mailed.

These are the people that make sure you get your Medicaid and Medicare.

Etc.

It is childish (I mean infantile) to think that a government can exist or function without a healthy bureaucracy. What is the alternative? For Congress to review and approve permits?

This is reality. Not whatever fever dream people have that the administrative state is some nefarious ungoverned group out to get conservatives.

#27 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-25 09:25 PM

Permits? Grants? Regulations? Audits?

I'm pretty sure they want to get rid of all that stuff.

#28 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-25 09:35 PM

Well, I guess Somalia is one government we can strive for.

#29 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-25 09:42 PM

the president-elect's continued foot-dragging on signing the standard trio of ethics and transparency agreements with the federal government

The president has no ethics and is adverse to transparency.

He's going to preside using executive orders.

BullBringer is elated.

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-11-25 09:53 PM

Let the firings begin - Jan 21st, 2025
#1 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTARD

That should be great for the economy.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-11-25 09:55 PM

He's going to preside using executive orders.

That's what he did the last time, after 4 years of ragging on Obama for doing it.

#32 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-25 10:24 PM

The president has no ethics and is adverse to transparency.

He's going to preside using executive orders.

BullBringer is elated.

#30 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

What? He's going to write some super serious posts about it expressing his displeasure.

Followed by endless deflection, excuses and whataboutism.

Don't tell him what his views are!

#33 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-26 07:45 AM

DOGE isn't a official government department. All Elon and Ramaswamy can do is make recommendations. It's a FACA committee.

en.wikipedia.org

"The Federal Advisory Committee Act defines advisory committee as "any committee, board, commission, council, conference, panel, task force, or other similar group" that dispenses "advice or recommendations" to the President of the United States, and excludes bodies that also exercise operational functions."

Excludes bodies that also exercise operational functions! I can't even. But the good news is, "DOGE" will "dispense advice or recommendations."

Let me repeat this, since it's so funny: the "Department of Government Efficiency" is not even part of the government. It literally has no power of its own. Everything Elon will be doing now, he could have done six months ago.

The result of this exercise will be a report which suggests to various agencies how they should save money. Or something.

#34 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-11-27 08:51 AM

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