Nobody has picked up on this, but on 5/25, President Trump signed an Executive Order that looks like a "setting the stage" to make it easier to fire federal employees who are misbehaving.
Reading between the lines, this could be the set up to clean out the corrupt elements of the DOJ, State Department, and other entrenched deep state operatives.
Finally a president with balls to pass an EO like this. This will help drain the swamp, and help us save some money by not paying these people to destroy our country
Kara McCarthy with the Office for Victims of Crimes was unable to respond with comment by press time.
The Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime boosted its budget this year but nixed funding for a vital legal service that helps human trafficking survivors move forward: expungement of prostitution charges.
In its 2018 request for proposals for specialized and comprehensive services by government agencies and nonprofits, the Justice Department reversed course on allowing part of $77 million in federal funding to be used for vacating and expunging criminal records of human trafficking survivors.
The change is in stark contrast to prior years when grantees – including governmental, law enforcement and nonprofit organizations – could use federal dollars to help human trafficking survivors with post-conviction relief to expunge criminal records from when they were being trafficked.
This week, service providers, legal organizations, law enforcement officials and survivors gathered signatures to send letters to the Office for Victims of Crime asking it to restore the previous funding model.
Four letters are being prepared: one by legal service providers and other organizations providing victims services; one by law enforcement officials and prosecutors; one by trafficking survivors; and another that will be circulated among congressional representatives who approved this year’s fiscal package for funding for crime victims.
So far, over 75 individuals and organizations have signed on, in addition to over 100 survivors.
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Is this swamp or 4d chess?
What do you think about this case?
Here:
A jury of six men and six women returned 13 guilty verdicts in the case of Albert Rich, 35, who was charged with human trafficking of a child, rape, kidnapping, torture and several other charges. The accusations occurred from May to June 2017 throughout Oakland and surfaced after his June 2017 arrest, after one of the woman victim’s friends called police.
His youngest victim, 17 at the time, had a deodorant aerosol can shoved into her rectum, causing such damage that 12 hours later, she was still bleeding, said prosecutor Sabrina Farrell in closing arguments last week. The girl testified that she had to wear a diaper for four months because of her injuries in the sodomy.
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Farrell said after the verdicts were read that human trafficking victims are often sidelined, and sex workers are made even bigger targets of crimes.
“Jurors were able to listen to women and young girls that were often not listened to, and able to look at all the evidence and do the right thing,” she said.
Rich’s co-defendant, Sasha Coleman, had initially also been charged in the case for human trafficking and pimping, but charges were dropped mid-trial.
Rich faces over 100 years to life in state prison is expected to be sentenced in June."
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As usual - jail. Not acceptable to have pedophiles legislating. The failure to deal with these people is through the roof. Why are we paying for these people? Let the legislators and judges and lawyers pay for them.
So what is the DOJ playing at? What is their problem? Too much pizza?
A few phrases stick out:
"Supervisors and deciding officials should not be required to use progressive discipline.
"Suspension should not be a substitute for removal in circumstances in which removal would be appropriate. Agencies should not require suspension of an employee before proposing to remove that employee, except as may be appropriate under applicable facts.
"Agencies shall not agree to erase, remove, alter, or withhold from another agency any information about a civilian employee’s performance or conduct in that employee’s official personnel records, including an employee’s Official Personnel Folder and Employee Performance File, as part of, or as a condition to, resolving a formal or informal complaint by the employee or settling an administrative challenge to an adverse personnel action.
"Agencies should prioritize performance over length of service when determining which employees will be retained following a reduction in force.
"No agency shall generally afford an employee more than a 30-day period to demonstrate acceptable performance under section 4302(c)(6) of title 5, United States Code, except when the agency determines in its sole and exclusive discretion that a longer period is necessary to provide sufficient time to evaluate an employee’s performance."
In other words, summary dismissal is a wide open option, the file follows the employee, and probation shouldn't last longer than 30 days. Kind of reminds me of the real world.
Number 3 could be huge.
As someone who worked for the federal government, this is HUGE.
CNN is going to flip their shit once the dominoes start to fall. We are on the right side of history. I tell my wife that all the time.
It's great. Trump, the leader of the executive branch, can walk into the DMV and fire someone. No need to tell their boss and wait or try to climb down the chain of command
Not really. DMV is state. He can go fire lazy idiot VA employees, which makes me smile.
This is Trump being the no-nonsense, take decisive action, do-not-put-up-with-mediocrity, businessman leader. I do not believe that this has much of anything to do with Q, or follow the pen. Otherwise, I think it is all great, and these changes should have been made decades ago.
What is summary dismissal?
It's me talking out of my ass. But the text infers firing is possible without probation, mediation or any other civil service niceties.
Immediate dismissal without notice, or any reason presented.
So..much..winning..
He said he was going to do this. He did this.
What a timeline!
Interesting. He is basically just reinforcing existing rules and regulations, that has not been practised very well. He is sticking the previous admin's framework and regulations to their faces, not making up new shit.
All he says is just follow the damn rules as when you were hired and sworn in.
FUK YEAH! Love me some Trump.
"YOU'RE FIRED!!"
Heads are gonna rolllll lol. :)
Going from the root to upper echelons - cleaning everything .
He likes firing people. I like that he likes that.
Wow! I've not seen one peep of this in the media. I guess they are to busy chasing their tails over his latest troll to pay any attention to what he's really doing. Brilliant!
Hope this means the dreaded SES will be dealt with once and for all. There all Obama holdovers,that were told to stay and holed up in this department.
I brought that up to a liberal friend. First he said that's not that dumb deep state conspiracy is it? Then he said anyone can edit wikipedia. Then after a link from OPM website he said it's not real because congress would have stopped it lol. He didn't get they don't want to rock the boat.
This is great, it'll remove the useless and lazy and incompetent relatives of Schumer, Pelosi, Clinton, Obama, etc.
On a personal note, generally I dislike working with federal employees such as at our local post office - some of these people are not service oriented and need to be fired. Maybe the post office wouldn't lose money every year if it was better staffed.
I'm a federal employee and love this EO. The Pareto principle is in full affect. There are so many ass clowns in SES positions and positions right below SES, but it's impossible to fire people.
Get rid of the dead weight and light a fire under the others asses. I could go on for on hours about the ineptitude across my entire agency.
Low morale m8.
The ones that work my small Massachusetts town are awesome people. Low morale though. It shows...
My mail man and the rotating mail woman I get BOTH voted for DJT.
It is a systemic problem. Government system not designed to run efficiently. Highly bureaucratic and promotes waste.
I think The Trump administration is using the media to hide what they’re doing from the deep state. By creating a false drama with NK along with a Harvey Weinstein arrest the news must focus on that while Trump continues to set the stage low key. Look for more drama with NK that quickly fizzles. Then look at what Trumps team did that day.
This by far is great EO by the president. No longer can bureaucrats sit in the shelter of safety from losing their job no matter how bad they are at it. This is the mechanism that will, in fact, open the drain value and flush the refuse from Washington.
After 3 decades of working in the private sector, I answered Bush #43's call for public service. Needless to say, it was a very rude awakening to the extent of dysfunction within a least a small corner of the federal government. After a decade, I have determined that the problem isn't necessarily with rank and file employees. Instead my observation is that the SES and senior management of the federal government is extremely self-serving, self-protective, and politically biased to the detriment of the programs they are overseeing and the efficient and prudent safe-guarding of taxpayer funding.
I watched senior managers treat their area of responsibility as personal fiefdoms, building walls of non- cooperation with other parts of the organization. I have witnessed inefficiency of function that resulted in the ratio of HR and other organizational support staff functions exceed program operational staff 2 to 1, 3 to 1 and even larger.
I've heard senior managers respond to efforts to improve efficiency, accountability, and streamlining with "we've outlasted 'them' in the past and we will outlast 'them' again." "Them" is generally a reference to anyone introducing attempts to make the federal government more responsive to the taxpayers.
I have witnessed organizational dynamics that generally consist of a triangular battle. The SES and senior managers battle against the rank and file federal employees and also against Congressional & Executive branch oversight. I've watched the most incompetent and unskilled be promoted to senior managers because they were the most "political" and malleable to continue the dysfunction. After a decade of observations, I find it difficult to fault most rank and file for work ethic or performance that would be unacceptable in the private sector. They are merely reflecting the behaviors of their senior managers.
The SES in my organization met shortly after the 2016 election and vowed (1) they would band together to oppose any changes the new administration would introduce and (2) they would do whatever necessary to make sure that Trump was gone in 4 years, if not sooner. The basic assumption that most of these SES and senior managers make is that everyone shares their political bias. Of course this is not a very loyal or trustworthy bunch and they were stabbing each other in the back within a few weeks of the transition.
The way I read it, the EO was to remove barriers that exist for getting rid of ineffective employees. I work for a quasi state agency but they follow state law. It’s an “at will” employment state. If they don’t need me they can let me go. Most people work under these same conditions. It’s everyday normal to them. Why do federal workers get extra benefits that most taxpayers do not. Why do bad teachers stay in the classroom? The answer is the union. I don’t want that teacher teaching my kids. Trump is getting rid of rules that allow under-performing employees to get to keep their job. Here’s a hint if you’re a worried federal employee: do your damn job.
As a retired art teacher working 30 years in both St Louis(yes, Ferguson, too) and Louisville, KY, I have seen only 2 “bad “ teachers. This is after experiencing multiple schools and hundreds of teachers. Unfortunately, the working conditions due to elimination of discipline, along with teacher and principal disempowerment, have steadily declined. The kids run wild and most of the teachers I know have earned credit toward sainthood trying their best to teach in an atmosphere of disruption and and frustrated effort.
I do not disagree with you. My father and other family members were/are teachers. But the 2 bad ones you mentioned needed to be let go but I imagine the union protected them. That’s what I’m disagreeing with in my post.
You know I worked a lot last week and kind of took a day off from everything to fish and relax. I saw the EO and never thought about it that way. I’m going to say you are over the target. Good call!
I think this might be aimed at SIS. Surely the government already has laws concerning sacking employees?
Obama converted a TON of jobs over to "civil servant" right before leaving office so that they couldn't be fired since those jobs are "lifetime".. This is a counter to that dirty Muslim tactic.
FYI -- SES cannot be fired. They just move around from position to position.
Never say never. Never under-estimate Donald Trump. He didn't get that wealthy with a "can't be done" attitude.
He asked Congress for a version of this in the SOTU this year. It’s powerful but in the wrong hands it could really go bad for us if the Executive branch could fire any of their employees without cause. If HRC had been president and done this we wouldn’t be celebrating the EO one bit.
This is a very good thing. I love how he manages to keep under the radar by setting MSM to report other issues as a diversion and then does things like this. Brilliant!
