Michael Snyder: Trump and Musk ruthlessly gut corrupt government agencies

Aerial View Of Washington D.C.

James 4:17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Important Takeaways:

  • When I decided to write this article, I was feeling quite overwhelmed, because there is just so much going on right now. This is going to be a very long article, and I will take it one step at a time.  With all that being said, let’s take a look at some of the highlights…
  • [And I, not the author of this article highlighted the highlights so you have to go to the website for more information]
  • The U.S. Treasury
    • If you want to understand what is really going on in any organization, you need to follow the flow of money.
    • So Elon Musk has been wanting access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment system, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted him that access on Friday…
    • After getting in, Musk discovered that payment approval officers at the U.S. Treasury were simply rubber-stamping all payment requests that were submitted to them…
    • Every single year, more than 6 trillion dollars is disbursed through the U.S. Treasury’s payment system…
    • In a typical year, over one billion payments are made by the U.S. Treasury, and not a single one was ever being denied.
  • OPM
    • The Office of Personnel Management is the largest HR department on the entire globe.
    • “A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said…. The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.”
    • Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
    • … During an internal meeting Friday morning, Trump administration officials directed OPM senior career staff to begin making plans to cut the agency’s workforce and programs by 70%. Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting confirmed the details of the meeting to Federal News Network…
  • USAID
    • When officials from Musk’s team went over to USAID headquarters, they were physically prevented from entering.
    • In response, the representatives from Musk’s team “threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access”…
      • Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after attempting to refuse officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN.
      • According to sources, personnel from the Musk-created office physically tried to access the USAID headquarters in Washington, DC, and were stopped. The DOGE personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access, two of the sources said.
      • The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files, three sources said. Two of those sources also said the DOGE personnel wanted access to classified information, which only those with security clearances and a specific need to know are able to access.
    • If you go to USAID’s website now, you will find that it has been shut down…
  • On his Twitter account, Robby Starbuck detailed how this works…
    • USAID essentially functions as one of many money laundering machines for Democrats in DC. Here’s how it works:
    • Activists create obscure NGO
    • Dems fund it lavishly
    • NGO does bare minimum (or actively hurts the United States)
    • Activists get paid and donate to Dems
    • Not only that but USAID helped spread their gender ideology nonsense and brought millions of illegals into our country.
    • That’s why Democrats are freaking out about the possibility that USAID’s being shut down by President Trump. It needs to be done.
  • The EPA
    • It appears that the EPA could soon be getting a lot smaller.
    • Last week, over 1,000 EPA employees were notified that “they were deemed to be on probationary status” and could soon be fired…
    • …The same message will be sent to other agency workforces, a White House official said. Across the US government, the latest data shows there are more than 220,000 employees on probation.
  • The FBI
    • Last week, the Washington Post reported that “at least eight senior FBI executives” were being terminated…
    • A top Justice Department official on Friday ordered the firing of at least eight senior FBI executives and a sweeping examination of the work of thousands of other bureau employees, including all those who worked on investigations tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.
    • The directive from Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said those field agents and FBI support staff could face “additional personnel action,” suggesting that the number of firings could swell in the coming weeks.
    • Ken Dilanian with NBC News reported that a number of the FBI’s “top executives” were told they would be out of a job by Monday. Friday, Dilanian reported a “purge” was underway that could see the heads of up to 20 of the FBI’s 55 field offices relieved.
    • Dilanian reported, “The purge is bigger than first understood, we are told, and includes more than 20 heads of FBI field offices, including the ones in Miami and Washington, DC.”
    • Vast numbers of federal workers that have been working at home since the pandemic began are going to have to start showing up at the office each day.
  • If they choose not to report, they will gladly be given their walking papers…
  • President Trump on Wednesday warned that federal workers will have to show up to the office “or be terminated,” framing his administration’s so-called buyout offers to 2 million employees as an effort to shrink the government.
  • “We’re requiring them to show up to work or be terminated,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room before signing an immigration bill into law.
  • “We think a very substantial number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficient,” Trump added. “And that’s what we’ve been looking to do for many, many decades, frankly.”
  • In the entire history of the United States, we have never seen anything quite like this, and there is widespread panic among federal employees right now…

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