Trump’s Accomplishments…at levels never seen before (2025 version)

[commando]

 "the republican party itself has been financing the refuge influx"

you voted for it.   you own it

 

[Archy1221]

 "the republican party itself has been financing the refuge influx"

you voted for it.   you own it

Ummmm yeah, both parties are responsible for the waste/fraud/abuse of government spending.   Yet I’m not the one having a freak out trying to get it all exposed REGARDLESS of party    Kinda why I included that reply 

 

[commando]

Ummmm yeah, both parties are responsible for the waste/fraud/abuse of government spending.   Yet I’m not the one having a freak out trying to get it all exposed REGARDLESS of party    Kinda why I included that reply 

nice of you to admit it wasn't joes fault like you have been freaking out about for the last 4 years.

 

[TGHusker]

More judicial reaction to The Felon's actions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/trump-federal-employee-buyout-court-challenge-.html

• A federal judge in Boston paused nationwide the Trump administration’s offer of buyouts to federal employees, less than 11 hours before the deadline for workers to accept the deal.
  
• Judge George O’Toole Jr., said that his injunction pausing the plan would continue until at least a court hearing Monday, when he will consider arguments on the legality of the buyout.
  
• More than 60,000 people — about 3% of the federal workforce — have accepted the offer, which is a key part of efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to reduce the size of the government.
  

A federal judge in Boston on Thursday paused nationwide the Trump administration’s offer of buyouts to federal employees, less than 11 hours before the deadline for workers to accept the deal.

Judge George O’Toole Jr., said that his injunction pausing the plan would continue until at least a court hearing Monday, when he will consider arguments by employee unions challenging the legality of the buyout, and by a lawyer for the Trump administration defending the plan.


 


O’Toole’s order Thursday came at a brief hearing, and as more than 60,000 people — about 3% of the federal workforce — have accepted the offer.

He said federal agencies must notify employees who received the buyout offer that the program has been enjoined until Monday.

“I make no assessment at this stage of the merits of the claims,” O’Toole said during Thursday’s hearing.

The Trump administration earlier Thursday in a mass email to federal employees said that the deadline for accepting the buyout offer would not be extended beyond 11:59 p.m. ET. Thursday.

The buyout offer, laid out in the so-called “Fork Directive,” purports to allow employees to submit a deferred resignation, in which they will no longer have to work but will be paid with benefits until the end of September.


 


O’Toole’s order Thursday is the latest in a series of judicial rulings pausing implementation of key policy initiatives of President Donald Trump.

Trump and Elon Musk, his head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, have promoted the buyouts as part of their efforts to reduce the size of the federal government, which is the largest employer in the United States.

In a statement after O’Toole issued his order, the CEO of Democracy Forward, the advocacy group representing the unions challenging the buyout, said, “Civil service members deserve more than one-sided ultimatums and misleading schemes. We are grateful for the court’s ruling today, pausing Trump’s unlawful ultimatums and protecting our federal employees.”

“The vast majority — more than 90% — of Americans believe that government employees should be hired and promoted based on merit, not political loyalty,” said Democracy Forward CEO Skye Perryman.

″Yet, President Trump and his unelected associates are threatening that value and our hardworking, dedicated, and independent civil servants—individuals who swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution and the American people.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News, “We are grateful to the judge for extending the deadline so more federal workers who refuse to show up to the office can take the Administration up on this very generous, once-in-a-lifetime offer.”

Leavitt’s comment expressing appreciation for the judge’s action came hours after the Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the Trump administration, asked O’Toole to deny the request to extend the deadline.

“Extending that deadline on the expiration date would not just engender confusion and upset expectations, but perhaps more importantly, would disrupt a critical priority of the Executive Branch to reform the federal workforce,” the DOJ said in a court filing.

“The serious harm to the federal government in effectuating these important reformations to the federal workforce far exceeds any claimed harm to the Plaintiffs and strongly cautions against the imposition of a temporary restraining order or an administrative stay,” the DOJ said.

 

[Archy1221]

nice of you to admit it wasn't joes fault like you have been freaking out about for the last 4 years.

Well, I’ve been complaining about both parties spending for longer than 4 years.  But come jump on the train for exposing government grift and ending all the waste.   All are welcome!!!  Even those who have complained about the exposure the loudest like yourself.  

 

[Archy1221]

More judicial reaction to The Felon's actions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/trump-federal-employee-buyout-court-challenge-.html

• A federal judge in Boston paused nationwide the Trump administration’s offer of buyouts to federal employees, less than 11 hours before the deadline for workers to accept the deal.
  
• Judge George O’Toole Jr., said that his injunction pausing the plan would continue until at least a court hearing Monday, when he will consider arguments on the legality of the buyout.
  
• More than 60,000 people — about 3% of the federal workforce — have accepted the offer, which is a key part of efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to reduce the size of the government.
  

In your opinion, what is wrong with offering buyout packages to federal employees 

 

[TGHusker]

Cheney previously served as a USAID officer in U.S. embassies, specifically, working for the agency in positions related to Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine. Her work with the agency dates to the early stages of her career, a fact picked up on and shared on X by Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation For Freedom Online.

Benz posted on X in December that Cheney — a vocal critic of President Donald Trump who endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the election — was "spawned out of USAID." He shared a screenshot of an article that notes her first posts in the State Department in the early 2000s largely involved matters in the Middle East, "including democracy promotion."

On Tuesday, Benz reshared his own post amid news the Trump administration placed U.S. aid workers on paid leave.

"Liz Cheney, who led Trump’s impeachment and the mass imprisonment campaign against thousands of Trump supporters, was spawned out of USAID," he wrote.

Musk, head of the so-called Department for Governmental Efficiency entity tasked with slashing trillions out of the federal budget, reshared Benz's post with the caption, "Interesting."

His post caught Cheney's attention, who offered a curt reply on X.

Damn Right

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

I mean, it would be pretty cool if a bipartisan committee could investigate government spending and cost efficiency, because we all know it could work better. 

It's just impossible to envision that happening right now.  

I'm beginning to think the U.S. needs to split up into at least four parties, at which point no vote is a given and parties will have to form coalitions with adversaries and strange bedfellows on a case by case basis. 

 

[Archy1221]

We will never really know till we really really look.   Hopefully this is all the beginning of that really really looking process 

 

[Scarlet]

Conveniently forgets the illegal and unconstitutional part

 

[RedDenver]

Conveniently forgets the illegal and unconstitutional part

And that stopping or suspending funds is not at all the same as just looking.

 

[Lorewarn]

Conveniently forgets the illegal and unconstitutional part

and the insane collateral damage and chaos to at least tens, maybe millions, of people around the world.

I can't keep track of the litany of stories like this we're hearing:

Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection.


 


The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away.


 


When Ms. Zondi, 22, arrived at the clinic, she learned why: The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations around the globe that receive its money. The abrupt move followed an executive order by President Trump freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken steps to dismantle the agency entirely.


 


Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.


 


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The stop-work order was so immediate and sweeping that the research staff would be violating it if they helped the women remove the rings. But Dr. Leila Mansoor, a scientist with the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (known as CAPRISA) and an investigator on the trial, decided she and her team would do so anyway.



“My first thought when I saw this order was, There are rings in people’s bodies and you cannot leave them,” Dr. Mansoor said. “For me ethics and participants come first. There is a line.”


 


In the communities where her organization works, people have volunteered for more than 25 years to test H.I.V. treatments, prevention products and vaccines, contributing to many of the key breakthroughs in the field and benefiting people worldwide.


 


That work relied on a carefully constructed web of trust that has now been destroyed, Dr. Mansoor said. Building that trust took years in South Africa, where the apartheid regime conducted medical experiments on Black people during the years of white rule. Those fears are echoed in a long history of experimentation by researchers and drug companies in developing countries and in marginalized populations in the United States.

 

[Archy1221]

and the insane collateral damage and chaos to at least tens, maybe millions, of people around the world.

I can't keep track of the litany of stories like this we're hearing:

HIV/AIDS has been a known thing since the late 80’s, 35 ish years.   How is it still possible for a country to have 20% of its 15-49 aged population living with HIV with all the resources being given to them?   When does it become the country of South Africa’s fault for choices being made vs our fault for not funding the outcomes of those choices?  
 

Why is their country not able to fund these types of programs?   Should we go through their budgets and we where the money is going and could have gone instead to help their own people?   

 

[Lorewarn]

HIV/AIDS has been a known thing since the late 80’s, 35 ish years.   How is it still possible for a country to have 20% of its 15-49 aged population living with HIV with all the resources being given to them?   When does it become the country of South Africa’s fault for choices being made vs our fault for not funding the outcomes of those choices?  
 

Why is their country not able to fund these types of programs?   Should we go through their budgets and we where the money is going and could have gone instead to help their own people?   

I'm personally not all that terribly interested in focusing on fault in an abstract sense, partly because the lowest amount of fault lies with the people most vulnerable and affected, and partly because it's a complex issue with a large confluence of multiple factors including terrible realities of poverty, education, rape, violence, drug usage, and so on. 

Regardless, this is just one example, so let's not get bogged down in an unnecessary focus on South Africa and it's HIV/AIDS epidemic. If you want to center a conversation around fault, would you contest that there's plenty of fault to be found in a reckless, poorly thought out 'plan' to immediately and absolutely turn off the mechanism for these treatments and studies, with no thought or strategy as to the actual damage and consequences to millions across the world? 

Your questions are good questions. They're the types of questions that you would love to see DOGE asking in their deliberation process, you know? Assuming they had a deliberation process, because their strategy doesn't seem to have any more nuance to it other than, "Just turn it off."

 

[Scarlet]

and the insane collateral damage and chaos to at least tens, maybe millions, of people around the world.

I can't keep track of the litany of stories like this we're hearing:

No one but the most gaslit among us believes that what Musk is doing is out of the goodness of his heart to "save America" by illegally taking a blow torch our national security institutions all the while leaving in ruins our international standing and potentially the lives of millions in order to find "waste, fraud, and abuse". 

It's a red herring while the destruction of our institutions continues as we slowly, or not so slowly as the case maybe, slide into a kleptocracy.