Government employees are growing increasingly willing to criticize or defy the White House and President Trump’s top appointees.
A handful of current and former career staffers in the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have openly shredded their superiors within the last several weeks, continuing a trend that has developed throughout the government over the course of Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office.
The growing opposition in the executive branch comes as the White House’s legislative agenda has stalled in Congress and Trump turns to his Cabinet agencies to change course in several policy areas. It also is emanating from career staffers or political holdovers whose resistance to Trump has, at times, been rooted in deep opposition to the president’s agenda.
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WNU editor: I recall the same type of defiance when President Obama assumed the Presidency .... but at that time it was mainly from the intelligence community. After a year .... most were fired/replaced/ or reassigned. I expect the same will happen here.
Hat tip to Fred for the above link.
All Senators of both Parties voted to hold pro-tiem Senate meetings, during the recess.
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It seems that the only issue that the Democrats and Republican Senators are unanimous on,
is ensuring that the Alt-Reich House is prevented from making Recess Appointments to Government posts.
Gov't unions among other things.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM
Ronald Reagan fired ALL the air regulators (15,000 people!) and replace them after the military makes the job. This administration need a big cleaning.
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