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| The 'Wokeness' Purge Has Already Begun |
| 2024-11-17 |
The headline is a tad overexcited: the work necessary to purge the woke has begun. Purges will follow after the information is collected. [RedState] President-elect Donald Trump...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... has not even taken office yet, but Republicans have reportedly already started the effort to purge wokeness from the federal government. Several conservative groups are currently in a campaign to identify federal employees who are partisan or possibly resistant to enacting Trump’s agenda, according to a CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... report. These groups include the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project and the American Accountability Foundation. The organizations have flooded federal agencies with tens of thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests demanding access to emails, personnel records, and other communications between The Big GuyBiden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... The measure would reclassify certain federal positions that are involved in policy-making, policy determining, or policy-advocating roles in a way that would exempt them from typical civil service protections. This would make it easier for the president to fire these individuals. Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project, told CNN that his organization "has submitted around 65,000 requests to federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act." The report continued: The Department of Transportation, for example, has received about 1,600 FOIA requests through the first nine months of 2024, and about 1,075 came from three people all tied to the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project, according to a CNN review of the agency’s FOIA logs. Howell has sent requests to these agencies to unearth “conspiracies to subvert the president-elect’s expected purging by asking for emails that include ‘Trump’ and ‘reduction in force.’” The American Accountability Foundation recently published the names of 60 individuals in the Homeland Security Department (DHS) who they believe might try to hamper the president-elect’s agenda, CNN reported: The list includes senior-level employees who donated to Democratic candidates or causes, previously worked for groups that advocate for more liberal immigration policies or posted on social media about their efforts to assist immigrants who arrived in the US seeking legal status. The initiative also targets diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and those involved in promoting them in the federal government. Predictably, this effort has frightened members of the bureaucracy in several federal agencies, who characterized it as “the potential weaponization of internal agency emails.” Some have even taken action to conceal their political leanings: The efforts have alarmed agency officials and unions representing federal workers. One source for a union representing Environmental Protection Agency workers characterized the effort as the potential weaponization of internal agency emails. In response, the source said that EPA employees are “putting as little as possible in any written form.” The union for EPA employees has submitted its own requests for information to get names of EPA employees who may be at risk, but it has not received a response because the agency’s FOIA office has been inundated with requests from Trump allies. This initiative suggests that conservatives are learning their lesson from Trump’s first term in office, which dealt with bureaucrats and officials working to impede his agenda. The move will likely cause quite a stir on the airwaves and interwebs, especially if and when the mass firings begin after Trump takes office. |
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| #2 Virginia attorney general expects 'a lot more common sense' during Trump presidency |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-17 10:31 |
| #1 Seems like this will be different. Let’s see where we end up when March rolls around. I expect this to make UFC look polite. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-11-17 10:20 |