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2025-02-22 Home Front: Politix

Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-22 2025-02-22 00:59|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ] Top

#1 Judge grants 19 AGs preliminary injunction against DOGE access to Treasury payment system

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-22 03:38|| 2025-02-22 03:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Supreme Court pauses Trump administration's effort to fire head of whistleblower protection agency

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-22 03:48|| 2025-02-22 03:48|| Front Page Top

#4 The USAID workers abroad is a complication that I had not thought of. The move back timer may be pushed out in labor court. 30 seems aggressive, but warranted based on what USAID was doing for a living.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-22 10:01|| 2025-02-22 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Thirty days is very doable. My last move for the company was accomplished in 19 days, and that included three days of thumb twiddling while we awaited the formal announcement; the trailing daughters and I even had time for a final overnight run back to Germany to say goodbye to friends and shop for a few last specialty items ordered to be delivered to the house in Brussels the next day. A full inventory with photos of key items — necessary to be recompensed should the shipping container fall off the boat, as once happened to friends of mine — takes at most a single day, especially if one kept receipts for key purchases, and that included counting all the trailing daughters’ underthings and Lego sets. Everyone who goes out there knows how to do this stuff, and if not, there are always plenty of trailing wives happy to be consulted. As for those few hundred problem pregnancies, they should have been back Stateside already — you do not want to be stuck out in the bush should Baby decide to come early — and their husbands will have plenty of offers from the local trailing wives to help get the household packed and shipped. No sympathy from me, I’m afraid —if you aren’t willing to do the work to become seriously competent at this stuff, you have no business going out there.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-22 22:32|| 2025-02-22 22:32|| Front Page Top

#6 @#5 - "Thirty days is very doable". Generally agree (I've done 16 international moves - 8 round trips). Almost always come down to local labor/movers availability. Off peak season right now which is good. The fact we usually only have a few (sometimes 1) reliable company overseas is bad. Coordinating things to left of the actual pack-out is what takes time. The Department of Redundancy Department bureaucracy at its best.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2025-02-22 22:50|| 2025-02-22 22:50|| Front Page Top

#7 The rats will find another home if we dont get them out fast.

Posted by 49 Pan 2025-02-22 22:54|| 2025-02-22 22:54|| Front Page Top

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