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Personal Finance Topics / Investing Beginners
No. of Recommendations: 10
Trump Is Starting to Turn on the People He Handpicked
Multiple Senate-confirmed Trump officials face ouster while longtime aides come under scrutiny After months of pushing out career government officials and Democratic holdovers, President Trump is starting to turn on some of his own picks.
On Wednesday, the White House said it was firing Trump’s director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a top public health agency, one month after she was confirmed by the Senate. The White House said she wasn’t aligned with the president. Several other top officials at the agency resigned in response.
This week’s turmoil followed ousters at other agencies. Trump replaced the head of the Internal Revenue Service less than two months into the job because the appointee, Billy Long, clashed with officials at the Treasury Department. Two top Justice Department antitrust officials were removed from their roles after clashing with senior officials at the agency who they accused of cutting deals with favored lobbyists. One of them has publicly questioned the integrity of other Justice officials. The White House also removed the acting FEMA administrator after he said the emergency management agency should continue to exist, contradicting others in the administration. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administ...Who remembers the chaos of the first Trump administration? It looked like the second was going to be a steamroller, but apparently not, we’re slipping back into chaos. Maybe that’s even for the better? (Not likely, the purgees are being ousted for “not being sufficiently loyal”, you know, doing their job.
In recent days, Trump also pushed his Treasury secretary to fire the agency’s second-in-command and installed a second deputy at the FBI after the White House soured on the first.
The firings are separate from his attempts to remove dozens of other personnel he didn’t appoint, including a Federal Reserve governor, a top official at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, prosecutors who investigated him and a coterie of leaders across the government, such as the National Archivist.
“No administration has seen more chaos in its leadership ranks than the Trump administration other than Trump one. He begins by being right, and if anyone challenges his worldview, they need to go away,” said Max Stier, who leads the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that tracks hiring and firing.
No. of Recommendations: 4
The chaos is a feature. The chaos is proof that the government can't govern and only private companies can take on the limited functions that Russ Vought, author of Project 2025, has determined that are right and proper. As long as Trump is going along with Vought the Republicans will keep the dotard in office. If he ever steps out of line the 25th amendment will have him out and President Vance installed in a heartbeat.
No. of Recommendations: 8
It’s an old one, but it withstands the test of time:
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke
No. of Recommendations: 1
And so What?..
Most any employer has a ninety day policy trial period for
new hires to learn if they fit in, have the knowledge they claimed
on their resume.
When I was hired at GE I was on a 90 day probation period.
My Lead Man told me forget everything you’ve learned, cuz from now on you will do everything the GE way.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Call it 'chaos' if you prefer, but it is clearly a sign of how deeply corrupt Trump is.
Two top Justice Department antitrust officials were removed from their roles after clashing with senior officials at the agency who they accused of cutting deals with favored lobbyists.
No doubt.
Nothing but corruption in this administration.
