As we continue to await the Supreme Court’s ruling on the national or universal injunction question, the Trump administration has filed another request to block a district court order that prevents it from implementing a “reduction-in-force” policy. The request in Trump v. American Federation of Government Employees could have major implications for other such orders even without the ruling in the birthright citizenship case.
On February 11, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order seeking to reduce the size of the federal government through RIFs. Exec. Order No. 14,210, 90 Fed. Reg. 9669 (Feb. 14, 2025) (App., infra, 1a-3a).
President Donald Trump directed federal agencies to “promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law.” That would seem well within the authority of a president and consistent with many presidents who ran on downsizing the federal government. Indeed, President Bill Clinton issued such an order at the start of his presidency.
Indeed, under Section 3502 of Title 5, OPM is allowed to “prescribe regulations for the release of competing employees in a reduction in force.” 5 U.S.C. 3502(a). It lays out a process, including notice of a RIF (generally 60 days) to agency employees and their collective-bargaining representatives, including notice of “any appeal or other rights which may be available.” 5 U.S.C. 3502(d)(1)(A) and (2)(E).
In a case brought by unions and advocacy groups in San Francisco, Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Illston blocked large-scale reductions in the federal workforce in what some believe is one of the greatest intrusions into Article II authority in the record number of injunctions coming from district courts.
In its filing on Monday, the Trump Administration maintains that Illston’s order “interferes with the Executive Branch’s internal operations and unquestioned legal authority to plan and carry out RIFs, and does so on a government-wide scale.”
The Supreme Court was previously asked to intervene but failed to take action. The Administration then withdrew that request after Illston issued a preliminary injunction. It then appealed to the Ninth Circuit, which (in a divided decision) refused to lift the injunction.
The original order runs against the grain of the Constitution. As the Supreme Court declared in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau, 591 U.S. 197, 213 (2020), because “[t]he entire ‘executive power’ belongs to the President alone,” he must have “‘the power of * * * overseeing[] and controlling those who execute the laws.’”
Moreover, the executive order takes pains to avoid potential conflicts by stipulating that, in ordering any RIFs, agencies should ensure that they do not eliminate any “subcomponents” that are “statutorily required” or prevent the performance of “functions” that are “mandated by statute or other law.” It also expressly states that “[a]gencies should review their statutory authority and ensure that their plans and actions are consistent with such authority.”
Judge Illston’s order seems, to me, well outside of the navigational beacons for the courts under the separation of powers. There are potential issues raised with large-scale RIFs but her order sweeps far too broadly in my opinion.
How the Court deals with this matter could foreshadow the opinion to come on national or universal injunctions. However, even without the scope of the injunction, there are ample concerns over the underlying claim of judicial authority in this matter.
Here is the Administration’s filing: Application for Stay
Elon on X today:
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1929954109689606359?s=46&t=baBBhbs8HKxS8e5N8kXp1g
Things seem to be going quite well in Trump / DOGE world.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mike Johnson must immediately legislate in favor of the executive branch and bypass the juristocracy.
Couldn’t the United States simply create a fast-track system just for nationwide injunctions? If strong prima facie evidence exists, fast-track it to the Supreme Court only for the injunction. The nationwide injunction stands until the case travels from the district courts to the appeals courts to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If we had a radical lawless president trying to overturn decades and centuries of constitutional case law. Seems like the burden should placed on the lawless president to prove constitutionality.
Such a lawless president should have to make the case why decades and centuries of case law was interpreted wrong by previous courts or why it was unconstitutional. If the case is genuinely frivolous, the government attorneys (AG & Solicitor General) should financially reimburse taxpayers for their amateur lawsuit.
For example: if a radical president wanted overturn women’s voting rights. Seems like the burden should be on the radical president, not placing the burden and punishing 150 million American women. The nationwide injunction should slow down the radical president until it winds through the courts.
#9. If a radical president wanted to overturn women’s voting rights, as you point out, first we would have to establish what a woman is. And I wouldn’t look to the SCOTUS to figure that one out, at least one perhaps two of them, can’t define what a woman is. Furthermore, I would submit that we already had a radical president who eliminated women’s rights by corrupting Title IX, to favor imagination over fact, while trampling over women’s legal rights to protection under Title IX. Thankfully being restored now that we have a real President. However, the Marxists have been around since Karl Marx in the mid-19th century and entrenched themselves into American politics after the Leninist movement and during the American labor movement of the 1920’s and 1930’s. I doubt they self deport, though a couple seemingly have left, at least temporarily for Ireland and elsewhere. Some of the true believer Confederates left for Latin and South America after the Federals prevailed. Not sure if any, or how many ever returned.
Otherwise not a bad idea, but it would rely upon a Congress which is not known for it’s ability to accomplish much beyond spending time off from work. Much like their Federal employee counterparts, they get paid so long as they breath. And some perhaps after that. What was that story about the Congresswoman who went missing for months on end only to eventually turn up in a old folks home… Classic!
I don’t think you understand how precedents work. They are binding… until they aren’t.
Jonathan: Speaking of “RIFs” Elon Musk may be looking at a big one at Tesla. The worldwide public backlash against Musk’s brand has taken its toll. Sweden is the latest to turn against the “Swastikar”. Sales in the country have fallen 53.7%! Of course, Elon’s flirtation with the neo-Nazi party in the last German election didn’t help Tesla’s reputation.
I have a friend in Sweden who bought a Tesla about 5 years ago thinking EVs were the wave of the future. Since Musk joined the fascist government of DJT my friend said his car has been vandalized and nasty graffiti sprayed on it. He has tried to sell the car but can’t find a buyer anywhere.
I would imagine the Board Members at Tesla are having second thoughts about letting the boss join the authoritarian regime of DJT. It has worked out badly for the brand. But maybe Musk has looked at history and sees a brighter future. During WWII companies like BASF, Bayer, BMW, GM, IT&T and Eastman Kodak all cooperated with the Nazi regime. Their reputations suffered as a result but they still prospered after the war. Maybe that’s Musk’s calculation. Time will tell.
MEanwhile, in reality:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-new-car-sales-rebound-in-ev-friendly-norway.html
Meanwhile, in reality:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-new-car-sales-rebound-in-ev-friendly-norway.html
-Rabble
#9. Ba-BOOM!
Dennis…
Musk is a billionaire… Really don’t think hes worried about Tesla sells.
You are just a cry-baby. Grow up
Dustoff
Are you serious????
This statement confirms that you you are profoundly mentally impaired.
MUSK IS A BILLIONAIRE BECAUSE HE SELLS TESLAS !!!!!
He cares very much about Tesla sales.
Dennis – you say “my friend said his car has been vandalized and nasty graffiti sprayed on it.” Putting aside the question of whether you really have a friend in Sweden, it is notable that you are celebrating property damage against a third party having no involvement in the Trump administration. The cult of violence reigns. So in character for a Leftist.
“. . . the fascist government of DJT . . . his car has been vandalized . . .”
Without a hint of self-awareness, you put those two points side-by-side.
Jonathan: So how is DJT and Steven Miller’s deportation of the “worst of the worst” going these days? Judging by the first 130+ days not so good. The original purpose of DJT’s deportation orders was to get rid of the rapists, murderers, the members of drug cartels and those convicted or charged with crimes. As we saw in the case Kilmar Obrego Garcia many of those picked up and sent to the gulag in El Salvador during the first months were not criminals. And the courts have stood up and prevented deportations without due process. This has slowed the deportations and caused Miller a huge headache.
So last week Miller called ICE officials to DC and read them the riot act. According to the Washington Times, a paper friendly to DJT, it reported that one ICE official was quoted as saying about the meeting: “Miller came in here and eviscerated everyone ‘You guys are not doing a good job. You’re horrible leaders’. He just ripped into everybody”. The ICE official said Miller made it clear, he wanted everyone rounded up, not just those with criminal records: “Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?”, one ICE recalls Miller saying. Miller and Kristi Noem made it clear to ICE officials they wanted a minimum of 3,000 detention of immigrants per day.
So yesterday at the end of a month long sweep of Massachusetts dubbed “Operation Patriot” 1,461 immigrants were detained–only of which about 54% were individuals with criminal convictions or pending charges. Most of those detained were picked up at work sites simply because they spoke Spanish. ICE also picked an 18 yr old who was just days away from graduation at Milford High School.
So in two raids in Florida and Massachusetts between April and May ICE has netted only 2,581 immigrants. By ICE standards not bad. But for Stephen Miller the raids were a failure. But without a way lot more ICE agents it is unlikely they could come close to Miller’s quota. And the result will be only about 15,000 to 16,000 detentions per year–or only about 64,000 over 4 years. During his four years Joe Biden repatriated 4.4 million undocumented immigrants. And he did that without violating due process or immigration law. In 2024 alone Biden repatriated 271,484, the highest since 2014.
Miller needs a scapegoat for his failures. The Reich-minister of immigration blames “communist judges” for his inability to accomplish his task. Miller curses Joe Biden and dreams at night about how much easier it was to get rid of undesirables under der Fuhrer.
P.S. As Elon Musk said good by last week to working in the WH guess who joined him? Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen. She is leaving the administration to go to work full time for Elon. The tabloids speculate it was not strictly a “business” decision by Katie. Well, it is spring time and romance is in the air.
#9. And thankfully Trump isn’t asleep under an umbrella on the Deleware Shore while an unelected and perhaps unauthorized politburo, with or without Biden’s knowledge, ran the country into the ground. Otherwise, what does all that nonsense about palace intrigue have to do with RIF’s in the Federal Government?
Wake up, no one was running the country.
During bidens time, you would be right
Dennis
The part you didn’t say. Polling shows most Americans want ALL the illegals gone.
Prez Trump is doing what Americans want. That’s why he won, and you poor libs lost… Big-time.
And you are still losing.
Your math is wrong. 3000 in 2 days is 560,000 and Biden didnt deport anyone. They are after the worst of the worst but if they catch other illegals while doing so they can deport them as well. Just being an illegal makes you a criminal anyway
FBI has arrested more than 10,000 illegal migrants since Trump took office
“Most of the attention since Trump took office Jan. 20 ha focused on the Homeland Security Department and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that takes the lead in deportations.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/fbi-has-arrested-more-10000-illegal-migrants-trump-took-office?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Only 19,990,000 to go.
In a case brought by unions and advocacy groups in San Francisco, Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Illston blocked ….
Professor Turley did not mention that a ruling by Judge Illston was overturned by a unanimous SCOTUS in 2023:
SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. PIRANI
The district court denied the motion to dismiss but certified its ruling for interlocutory appeal. The Ninth Circuit accepted the appeal and a divided panel affirmed…..
13 F. 4th 940, vacated and remanded.
GORSUCH, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-200_097c.pdf
Illston was nominated by Bill Clinton and history recorded Clinton as someone who reveled in abuse of power, with the MSM defending him. Illston’s order stated:
The defendants in this case are President Trump, numerous federal agencies, and the heads of those agencies. Defendants insist that the new administration does not need Congress’s support to lay off and restructure large swathes of the federal workforce, essentially telling the Court, “Nothing to see here.” In their view, federal agencies are not reorganizing. Rather, they have simply initiated reductions in force according to established regulations and “consistent with
applicable law.” The Court and the bystanding public should just move along
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.448664/gov.uscourts.cand.448664.124.0.pdf
Her contempt is palpable and visceral. Americans should take note how Federal Judges are no better than those who nominated them, but in this case, Illston and Clinton are cut from the same cloth. Impeaching her, like with Bill Clinton, for perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power, would be warranted.
Memo to Illston: Congress defines your role as judge and your salary. Both should be zero.
At some point, the rulings of federal judges are so palpably wrong, repetitive and unconstitutional that it moves into the territory of impeachable offense.
What is even more extraordinary is that this decision was upheld by the 9th Circuit in a 2-1 split decision. Sauer’s application to the Supreme Court is very well written. You need to search to find the one from yesterday. The link at the end of the essay is to the May 16 one.
* . She must have been embarrassed? Pity there is such on benches?
Without the cooperation and tacit consent of Hollywood John Roberts, Professor Turley’s fellow Democrat lawyers serving in the federal judiciary, elected office, and the bureaucracy could NEVER have done as much damage to the Constitution and the rule of law as they have.
Roberts always has an eye on what the news media will say about SCOTUS under his rule, and whether his place on the invitee list for the Washington DC and New York canapes and cocktails party list will be threatened. Roberts will never risk being disinvited from cultural party life. He clearly isn’t concerned about what history will write about him and his court.
And all the people screaming that America was under threat the day Trump was elected in 2016 are gleefully watching SCOTUS allow the Constitution and rule of law to be bob-sledded into something more reminiscent of the old USSR court system.
Trump’s manner of speaking have made it just a wee bit easier for Roberts et al to tell themselves they’re just doing their jobs, but that doesn’t change a thing.
The corruption and/or fecklessness of Roberts and these other justices is as obvious as the dementia of The Oval Office House Plant was and is.
Mr. Turley, the RIFs were not “consistent with applicable law.” They abolished entire units instead of following the appropriate procedures. The basis for the RIFs were also unlawful, as appropriated funds already existed, FTE ceilings were not triggered, there was no shortage of work, etc. Reorganizations are fine but this one was not approved by Congress. So this was all completely illegal. If the Admin is able to get their budget passed then they will have a chance to re-do the RIFs in the correct and legal way. Right now, the illegal RIFs have simply caused more government waste at taxpayer expense as thousands of federal employees have been on paid leave for 2 months. This is not the fault of courts, it’s the fault of the administration that cannot figure out how to take legal action.
“Anonymous”. Now there’s an authoritave spokesperson.
So, a CEO has njo right to analyze the contracts of the employees under him and figure out where, regardless of money, he can fix issues?
You realize how stupid that sounds, right?
-Rabble
The president is not a CEO
And the government is not a business
And that is why it is a bloated, mess, with massive amounts of fraud, waste and abuse.
But it is our business. And we elected a businessman to run it, not unelected judges.
I am merely making an analogy. You mean we can’t equate POTUS to a CEO, and Congress to the Board of said company? Meanwhile, SCOTUS is the auditors.
Maybe if you pulled your head out your hoohah for longer than a moment, you’d see some free thoughts.
-Rabble
The government is not a business !!!!!
If you scour the pages of LinkedIn, it won’t take long before you begin running into folks from the corporate sector who are attempting to rationalize Elon Musk‘s current approach to organizational change within the US federal government. Many of them are drawing on their experiences, or their veneration of, startup culture, and I have seen posts lately, that I’m not going to bother to link to, which talk about the principle of “move fast and break things“ being worth a shot when it comes to government. Treat it like a startup. That way you get more innovation.
It shouldn’t even require a response. But here we are.
Governments are not businesses. They don’t resemble businesses in any way. From a business perspective, the job of government is to provide a stable social substrate of policies, and predictable regulations and legislation that makes it possible for businesses to operate. On top of that government picks up the costs that businesses externalize onto society as a whole, like education and safety and health care and basic research and infrastructure.
A few blunt examples for these corporate shills.
When companies are starting up, Society provides them with educated talent, and serviced environments in which they can establish their operations. Companies never have to pay for the investments that all of us make in an educated workforce.
Companies largely don’t have to worry about how their employees get to work. Roads, public transportation, and a well-regulated telecommunications system provides the predictability and ease that companies require for their employees.
When economies change or companies go bankrupt, governments are the ones that care for the aftermath. Workers are paid compensation, communities who are suffering are provided resources and local governments take on the work of creating a climate for sustained economic activity.
The many functions that governments provide to communities and regions, require them to operate with a continuity of care, especially to those that are the most vulnerable and require special assistance, like children, folks who are ill or disabled, elders requiring long-term care and others. Governments take on the collective responsibilities that are beyond the scope of any of us to care for on our own, including regulating our food supply, managing, and protecting the environment, and our natural resources, ensuring that we have a stable and predictable dispute resolution systems.
It is absolutely ridiculous to have to repeat these points to people that should otherwise know better.
A government‘s obligations are to provide stable and predictable continuity of care to its citizens. A business’ obligations are to provide an ever-increasing return to its shareholders. In fact, many of those advocating for a startup mentality to be applied to “government efficiencies“ don’t even see the irony of the fact that a startup’s purpose is to generate nearly unlimited growth. “Move fast and break things“ is a principle used to maximize profits and expansion in the early years of a startup. And yet some folks are unironically, wanting to apply this principle to government operations, where the thing that gets broken is people and communities and where moving fast threatens the very stability upon which businesses rely. And the costs of repairing those things are not going to be covered by shareholders.
It is so simple to understand the differences between business and government, and yet it is those who should know better but who like to project airs of confidence and confidence who seem so willing to conflate the two. These folks are pure charlatans.
The metaphors of managing government like a business or, God forbid, a household budget, are not only unhelpful, but they are fundamentally dangerous, and if used to guide actual policy making will result in long-term damage from which people, communities, businesses, and countries may be unable to recover.
37 TRILLION IN DEBT. Maybe run like a business would be GOOD!!
Kirk
A successful business maximizes revenue and minimizes expenses.
Therefore, according to you, in order to run the government like a business we have to maximize revenue. That means raising taxes, the main source of government revenue.
The present administration is trying to cut taxes.
Show me a successful business that actively tries to REDUCE revenue.
Can’t you see the stupidity of your position ????
In your stupidity, you will undoubtedly respond by saying we need to cut expenditures to reduce the deficit to zero.
Show me a successful business that simply wants to balance revenue and expenses.
There is no successful business that actively tries to balance its revenue with its expenses.
The analogy is completely and utterly absurd.
Government and businesses are diametrically opposed in their objectives.
STILL 37 TRILLION IN DEBT NO?? RIDDLE ME THAT!! GOVERNMENT NOT DOING A GOOD JOB. HEY ANON GET A SCREEN name too lazy or scared??
HEY ANON- A government spending more than they bring in is DUMB! A WAY FOR A COUNTRY TO GO BROKE-WITH HUGE INFLATION!!
BIDEN administration spent TRILLIONS too much and too fast on useless programs with no return on their money. THAT caused 40 YEAR HIGH INFLATION!!
USING some principles of a BUSINESS would be GREAT–ANON!!!!
Kirk
What precisely do you mean by a “return on its money”.
How exactly is a government supposed to get the “return on its money” that you demand ?
What exactly is the mechanism by which the government can get a “return on its money”
The government is not a business designed to get “a return on its money”
You simply spout these stupid platitudes, but you do not understand what is going on, and you do not think through what your comments actually mean.
Kirk
What is wrong with you?
Yes, the government is not doing a good job.
Yes, the country is $37 trillion in debt.
Why is that????
Because it spends more than it collects in revenue.
What does a business do when expenditures exceed revenue?
It tries to increase revenue.
The correct BUSINESS solution is to raise tax revenue.
The present administration is trying to REDUCE tax revenue, which will make things even worse.
Why can’t you understand this?
You sound off with all these absurd platitudes about how the government needs to be like a business, but you are not thinking through what that actually means.
Actually, if a business’s expenditures exceed revenue, I think most will try to cut expenditures then try to increase their revenue. Because one is way far easier to accomplish than the latter. After all, that’s what Intel is doing. As well as Microsoft. And Meta. And Salesforce. And Workday… whoever they are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh and Hewlett Packard. : )
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4453881-tech-sector-layoffs-slow-down-in-2025-intel-microsoft-report-largest-reductions
I forgot to add this to my previous comment and I don’t think I can edit my previous comment (which I think is a good thing). So the solution isn’t try to increase tax revenue but rather is to reduce expenditures by cutting spending. After all, we don’t have a taxation problem, we have a spending problem.
An oldie but a goldie.
Dannyboyo2
When it comes to businesses, you are correct. They do in fact try to cut expenditures to increase profits if their revenue remains unchanged. That is good business practice.
The purpose of a business is to operate in such a way that revenue is maximized and expenditures are minimized, so there is money left over as profit.
That is NOT the purpose of a government. A government is not a business designed to generate profits. It is a completely different economic entity. In many ways it is the exact opposite of a business.
A government is designed to SPEND all its revenue so that there is nothing left over.
A government generates revenue by taxation. Ideally they should balance tax revenues and expenditures to avoid a deficit.
If things are out of balance, then the government can try to reduce expenditures and also try to increase tax revenues as needed. The nature of reduced expenditures or increased taxation is a reasonable matter for debate and consensus between the affected parties.
However what the government CANNOT do is reduce expenditures while reducing tax revenue, and expect the deficit to go down. This is what the current administration wants to do.
This does not change the net result. There is still a deficit.
If you reduce expenditures you CANNOT simultaneously reduce revenue and expect the deficit to go down.
At a minimum the present administration’s plan would not change the deficit, but more than likely it would worsen the problem.
The idea that we have a spending problem, not a taxation problem is a gross oversimplification of the deficit.
There is no realistic way of simply cutting expenditures to reduce the deficit in the foreseeable future. There has to be some combination of reduced spending and increased taxation.
It is utterly impossible to reduce the deficit by cutting both expenditures and taxation as the current administration proposes.
“What does a business do when expenditures exceed revenue?”
It tries to increase revenue.”
You just spent an insane amount of space arguing *against* an analogy between business and government. Yet now you’re using that very analogy as a rationalization to raise taxes.
“Why can’t you understand this?”
Understand which “this”? Your contradictions are all over the place.
😂 omg
Governments are not businesses. They don’t resemble businesses in any way.
Sure, if you ignore the employees, payroll, benefits, revenue, expenses, budgets, facilities, departments, missions, visions, guiding principles, customers, stakeholders, alliances, foreign offices, etc. Yeah, dumba$$, nothing like a business. 🤣
Olly
Here is an example of how the analogy of running the government as a business is absurd.
As part of their efforts to root out waste in the government, Musk and his DOGE team cited numerous instances where they discovered funds that had been appropriated but never spent.
The money was just sitting there.
They said that this was a very bad thing because it was wasteful, and in a way they are correct. If the government takes tax revenue and doesn’t spend it, then it could be said that they have defrauded the taxpayers.
Now let’s consider a businessman who suddenly discovers money in a bank account that he had forgotten about.
There is a whole bunch of money there that he never spent.
The businessman is delighted.
He suddenly has more money than he thought, and his business is much better off.
The same scenario.
For the business it is good.
For the government it is bad.
Governments and businesses are diametrically opposed in their objectives.
The analogy between government and business is absurd.
As part of their efforts to root out waste in the government, Musk and his DOGE team cited numerous instances where they discovered funds that had been appropriated but never spent.
The money was just sitting there.
They said that this was a very bad thing because it was wasteful, and in a way they are correct.
You neglected to get the rest of the story, which led you to the wrong conclusions. DOGE didn’t just find unspent appropriated funds. They found appropriated funds directed to go to wasteful or fraudulent activities, which they canceled. They didn’t say the unspent funds were wasteful, they said where they were to be spent was wasteful. Put another way, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reported identifying appropriated funds that were not spent wastefully. They called that savings, AKA NOT WASTEFUL!
If the government takes tax revenue and doesn’t spend it, then it could be said that they have defrauded the taxpayers.
Huh? Name one person (other than yourself) that claims unspent tax revenue is defrauding taxpayers?
Money not being spent is wasteful? That’s a new one.
“Sure, if you ignore the employees, payroll, benefits, revenue, expenses, budgets, facilities, departments, missions, visions, guiding principles, customers, stakeholders, alliances, foreign offices, etc. Yeah, dumba$$, nothing like a business.”
You might want to take note that 20% of new businesses fail within the first year, 50% fail within 5 years
and 65% fail within 10 years. This comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Governments can not afford to fail. Not that you have your head up your backside, though, you do have your head up your backside.
You might want to take note that 20% of new businesses fail within the first year, 50% fail within 5 years
and 65% fail within 10 years. This comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Not if it’s irrelevant to the point I addressed and which you clearly are running away from. But hey, you keep doing you. I can hardly wait for you to expound on some other laughable theory you’ve got rumbling around the right-half of your brain.
Government is the biggest business in the US. Should it be?
The government is NOT a business.
A business is supposed maximize revenue and minimize expenditures so there is money left over as profit.
A government is supposed to SPEND all its revenue so that nothing is left over.
Governments and businesses have diametrically opposite objectives.
*. .. “care for people”
Huh?
“The many functions that governments provide to communities . . .”
That entire comment would’ve been a lot briefer if you had just written: I like a Paternalistic government — from cradle to grave.
I fail to see the difference in “Right now, the illegal RIFs have simply caused more government waste at taxpayer expense as thousands of federal employees have been on paid leave for 2 months.” or sitting in a Government Office Building “polishing the seat” just to maximize their retirement account and medical benefits.
Trump would have been better to take away Their Retirement and Medical benefits, as the diaspora of Governmental Employees would have swamped the Streets. Why shouldn’t they eat Cake like the rest of Us have to? Governmental Employees ‘want their Cake and eat it to’, some double and triple dippers as well.
Like it or not, the Cuts need to be made, and its the G-Employees own fault for loafing around on our Tax dollars. They know They have it coming.
Less grift is a benefit
#9. As was stipulated by OMB, and OPM, in their directive, I see no indication of any factual evidence of the accusations you’ve put forth about how the courts have the authority to over rule the Commander in Chief. According to what was proscribed, if “entire units”, fall into the categories defined, then why would anyone want to continue with programs that are resulting in;
1. “Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hard-working American citizens.”
2. “President Trump required that “Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law.”
3. “Pursuant to the President’s direction, agencies should focus on the maximum elimination of functions that are not statutorily mandated while driving the highest-quality, most efficient
delivery of their statutorily-required functions.”
Exactly what we voted for! Thank you President Trump for directing the Federal Government to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, within it’s own ranks, and eliminate bloated workforce numbers
of employees not designated as essential, who are paid on average higher salaries than the typical citizens, and continue to receive it whether they are at work, at home in a hot tub, so long as their breathing. All of which comes out of the pockets of the taxpayers.
As a taxpayer, this is precisely what I want a President to accomplish.
Finally, we have a real President who actually manages, oversees, makes decisions, doesn’t shake hands with ghosts or gets lost in the Rose Garden, and gets things done and who doesn’t hide in his basement, or lay comatose on the beach while some merry little band of Commissars ruin the Nation, conduct massive corruption schemes or at a minimum makes no effort to avoid the appearance of corruption by their callous and non-transparent and perhaps unauthorized actions, and who holds multiple daily briefings to the American people, unlike his extremist leftist predecessor who spent the day day dreaming about all those terrible White Supremacists who throw Molotov cocktails, or drive their vehicles through parades, or gun down innocent people at a museum on the street, oh wait…
Perhaps the existential threat of the White people figured out how to sneak in the country illegally, turn themselves into a different DNA strain, overstay their visas, somehow get a non-existent Presidential administration to extend to them as a reward for their illegal crimes a golden work visa, and then turn a blind eye as they proceed to plan mass murder.
And thank goodness what we don’t hear now as we did with President Obama, and President Biden, ad nauseam is the monotonous wailing and moaning about; “Oh no, just because some illegal alien committed mass murder don’t even think about calling them out for it, if you do your…wait for it, wait…wait, that’s it! You’re racist.
The new, albeit growing stale, Marxist mantra; Racists Unite!
https://www.chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM_OMB%20-%20guidance%20on%20DOGE%20workforce%20EO%202.26.25%20FINAL.pdf
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/reductions-in-force-rif/
We have reached a Constitutional inflection point. It’s the point where the curve stops bending upwards and starts bending downwards.
Id est: Government is not serving the People, it’s serving itself.
Trump, with all his faculties, is more incompetent than Joe Biden in all his dementia. A pile of dookie on the Oval Office desk could run the country better than Donald Trump.
Always with the attacks, never with the facts. Not only is ATS a homose*ual, for how much he thinks about another man, but now he reveals he is a coprophiliac. Tune in next time for more shocking revelations on “As the Comments Turn”
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¡A huevo!
“The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border”
Mary Beth Sheridan, WaPo reporter.
Per the Customs and Border Protection data she cites in her piece, monthly seizures in 2024 averaged 1,700 pounds, and in 2025, they are averaging 746 pounds.
“The drop in fentanyl seizures at the border is only a mystery to Washington Post reporters suffering from Trump-Derangement Syndrome. Everyone else knows the simple truth: President Trump closed our border to illegal drug traffickers and Americans are safer because of it,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
This is the fun part I do enjoy. Anonny moron makes dumb comments, then I easily debunk them with facts.
NotReallyaFarmer
Interesting logic.
During the Biden administration the Republicans were constantly harping that fentanyl seizures were skyrocketing at the border and that this was evidence that the situation was out of control.
Any rational person would understand that increased seizures mean less fentanyl entered the country under Biden.
Now we have reduced seizures at the border, but according to you, this means that the situation is now controlled.
According to the Republican logic during the Biden administration, increased seizures meant more drugs were getting through.
Consequently, reduced seizures must mean that MORE drugs are getting through by YOUR logic.
But of course this is just political posturing.
The real reason that fentanyl seizures are down is because Trump has pulled DEA agents from fighting drug traffickers to chase immigrants in cities and schools across the country.
” Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law.”
” The DEA, whose roughly 10,000 staff have led the nation’s efforts to battle drug cartels, has shifted about a quarter of its work to immigration operations, said a former official briefed by current DEA leaders on the changes.”
https://www.citizen.digital/news/thousands-of-agents-diverted-to-trump-immigration-crackdown-n359706
So clearly the reduced fentanyl seizures are a direct consequence of Trump pulling DEA agents, who normally chase drug traffickers, to instead spend their time chasing down immigrants across the country.
The reduced seizures confirm that MORE drugs are getting through because DEA agents are no longer chasing the traffickers as effectively as they could in the past.
How marvellous!!!!
PSYCHOBABBLE FROM anothe ANON! Which ANON are you 1-100?? Too scared to have a screen name???
Hilarious. You hate what I said yet you agree. Thanks for the kudos.
You’re a kid right? Right.
“. . . increased seizures mean less fentanyl entered the country under Biden.”
Nice sophistry. Which amounts to this: An increase of cockroaches seized means there are fewer cockroaches in my house. There are fewer — the ones that I caught. Now, about that infestation of those I haven’t caught . . . And about that all-important problem: Why are they attracted to my house, in the first place?
Polling proves you wrong. Prez Trump still has high numbers
The libs, not come much.
Per CNN
#9. Their committing suicide. Maybe Trump told them not to do it.
At last glance, the polls were brutal…
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/democratic-party
Remember when “the media was the enemy of the people”? Now it seems that the judiciary is the enemy of the people. They have become the dictator that the Dems are so afraid of.
Chief Justice Roberts needs to get his judicial house in order. His lack of action here is going to lead to any of a number of scenarios including a willingness to simply ignore the court and move on, Congress could be goaded into action and limit the district and appeals courts in major ways to the point of being impotent (not desired for either side), or outright elimination of the circuit and district courts, which congress has the power to do since it was them that created the “inferior courts” in the first place. Imagine if we had only state courts and often elected at that.
This is, without a doubt, an attempt to overturn an election. It is organized and comprehensive and is not just occurring willy nilly. There were rumors of this even before the inauguration but I don’t think anyone expected the scope. With rare exception these are democrats making these decisions and they give the lie to Chief Roberts assertion that there are no republican or democratic judge.
Also the democrats must remember that they are just laying the foundation for similar action by the Republicans if the Democrats return to power. Both sides can forum shop.
I’m used to leadership in the office of the chief justice like Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist. What we have now in Roberts is questionable.
Definitely time to decide on term limits for all justices and rules on the breadth of their decisions at the district and appeals court level. If this is not done then the courts will not be shy about seizing more power.
*. Good point–an effort to overturn an election. These are the bad judges coming into the light. They were always bad.
Good comment! If you get the time look up the name Norm Eisen. His the deranged lawyer POS that started all this injunction BS!
“. . . prevents it from implementing a ‘reduction-in-force’ policy.” (JT)
According to the Left, a productive giant like Musk is harmful to your existence; a government bureaucrat, indispensable.
It takes some kind of skill to get the formula chronically wrong.
This government spends $7 for every $5 it collects. We’re so far in debt, we’re basically bankrupt but these judges don’t think we need a large RIF! These judges obviously have never run a company and understand basic finance but neither does most of Congress.
Adds to inflation
Should be a 9-0 SCOTUS decision
It will be 7-2 AT BEST because Sotomayor and Jackson Brown are political hacks and not Justices that actually follow the Constitution. They never vote with the Constitution in mind, they always vote for the outcome they prefer due to their political bent.
Justice Scalia voted to allow flag burning to be allowed as an expression of free speech even though we all know it was anathema to him. Sotomayor and Brown would never vote for something that doesn’t agree with their political agenda. They are weak while Scalia was a tower of strength.
hullbobby: Great comment, which reminds us all of the tremendous burden on justices to rule based on law, precedent, and wisdom, not personal beefs.
I predict 6-2. Jackson and Soto will dissent, Kagan will once again recuse, because that’s the only political recourse she understands.
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Flag burning was a poor opinion. It opened a door to actions. It says, speech and press including listening and reading and that’s all it says. The order is listening, speaking, reading, writing.
You’ll need a burn permit.
I think TRup is purpofully doing things that inspire the left to judge-shop and stop him. The SCOTUS is watching carefully and Trump is playing to Chief Roberts’ concern for the Constitution. In the past, Roberts has stated that the Constitution requires the people to elect the POTUS, not the courts. He used this excuse to stay ou tof controversies over the 2000 election. If he truly believes this, he will have to come down on the side that tells the courts to knockmoff thesenationwide injunctions and let the POTUS do his job that the people elected him to do. It might be a 9-0 opinion by the time the Court decides.
The Left Wing Radical Unqualified Activist Judges gone Wild. Most if not, all should not be Judges. The Supreme Court must restore order in the Courts and stop this lawfare but, on the Supreme Court there are a few Judges who approve of this, two of them are also unqualified and should not be on the Supreme Court. Then you have Roberts, a Washington insider, who allowed a unqualified Judge ore $2 Billion to be distributed to NGO’s who are corrupt?????? All this must Stop, follow the letter of the law.
Time for Roberts to exert himself to preserve the last few crumbs of relevance and credibility that remain in our Judicial system. But I bet he won’t.
Roberts is feckless and aloof. In order for elections to have the meaning intended — that the wisdom and will of the majority make their way into policy — those on the losing side of an election CANNOT be allowed to pose as “injured plaintiffs” and manipulate the Judicial branch to overpower the political branches.
Roberts could be exercising control over definitions of “injury” and “standing” to eliminate this abuse of the Courts.
As a start, he should insist that the District Courts reject lawsuits that interfere with (pre-challenge) any policy currently under process in Congress. E.g., HR 569 finally clarifies which newborns are eligible for automatic birthplace citizenship. Therefore, the lawsuit challenging Trump’s E.O. should be deflected while Congress is taking up this policy area. Why?….separation of powers. Congress makes Citizenship law, not the courts.
*. Elections , you say? What an open wound it is.
The lunacy of allowing the rulings of a federal district court trial judge in Oregon to metastasize into the control of persons and policies in Florida was stupid when it originated, and it remains stupid today. Indeed, a federal appeals court ruling in the Ninth Circuit, for example, is binding only in the Ninth Circuit.
If for example the Fifth Circuit rules differently on the same legal question, that is similarly binding only in the Fifth Circuit, and the “split in the circuits” creates jurisdiction in the Supreme Court. Why the rule should be different for district trial courts is a mystery skulking around somewhere in the interstices and “penumbras” of the district court judges minds. It should stop.
Lunacy? Hardly, its a meticulous plan to destabilize the Trump admin. And its working.
Theres no mystery, its activism at its best. Too bad the reps can’t get their sh!t together.
Destabilize the trump admin? There’s zero stability in this admin. It’s chaos as usual.
Yup, bring back the stair tripper, Amazon trailblazer & Dr shrill
As this administration has been pretty successful so far with their agenda “chaos” may be the preferred management tactic of the present and future. Predictability in politics and war can be a fatal flaw.
Hey Wally
Food and gas prices are coming down. We are getting rid of people who don’t belong in the US…
So no chaos as usual. Unless you are talking about the dem-o-rat party
There’s zero stability in this admin.
It’s a good thing you see it that way, because that’s a feature, not a bug.
The chaos comes from the left’s efforts, on all fronts, to counter the will of the people & the Trump agenda. And everyone knows it.
*. Sure, Biden chaos was the will of the people. The dishonesty here precudes any possibility of good. Were all maximum security prisons just opened and criminals fled? Is that it?
* precludes
Ritchie Torres Frets Party’s ‘Hysterical’ Trump ‘Resistance’ Could Be Its Undoing
Democratic New York Rep. Ritchie Torres expressed concern during a Monday podcast that his party’s frenzied opposition to President Donald Trump could damage its electoral prospects.
Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 45% want the Democratic Party to become “more moderate,” according to Gallup polling published in February. Torres warned on “Making Sense with Sam Harris” that Democrats’ opposition to Trump could block that necessary shift.
“But I worry that the momentum is on the side of hysterical, hyperbolic resistance, and the enormous expenditure of time and energy in resistance might crowd out the restructuring and moderation that needs to happen within the Democratic Party.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/02/ritchie-torres-frets-partys-hysterical-trump-resistance-could-be-its-undoing/?”
That is what chaos looks like. And that is a Democrat saying it out loud.
Antisemitism uncondemned by Democrats morphs into domestic terrorism
“With college campuses becoming breeding grounds for antisemitism, attacks in the United States have surged 893% according to data released by the Anti-Defamation League, the highest level ever recorded by the civil rights organization.”
[Democratic Party’s] young people, their key constituency, not only don’t like their own civilization, they like the wrong one. They actually think Hamas is a liberation movement.”
“At an AOC Bernie Sanders rally in Idaho last month, someone threw a Palestinian flag over an American flag, and the crowd erupted in approval. What should have happened after that is one of the adults on stage should have told their young loyal followers, this is not a symbol of freedom. This is,” Maher said, as he showed an image of the American flag.
“if the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging and not rebuking the idea that America is cringe and the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed.”
–Bill Maher
That is what chaos looks like. The hot mess that is the Democrat party.
*. Gaza was a town. Israel today should include Gaza and other areas including Jerusalem. Palestine was coined by the Roman’s as territory. There was no Jordan nor Saudi Arabia but is now.
Liberation must mean the PLO. 😏. The philistines…
Mesopotamia… it’s just a name change because it had no name. It’s Isreal and it has a new government that includes other than Jewish. Hamas took control of the Gaza after the last election from Gaza and about 100 people were killed.
Jesus had to live in Galilee? Anyone know about that name? You know, nazareth…Nazareth.
*. Gaza was a city, a town in Israel. After that the Romans called it the territory of Palestine. It split Judah and Israel and then name changes to Samaria and Galilee blah blah but Jesus was Jewish known as Jesus of Nazareth as we recall. The Romans didn’t like the Jew so they killed him. Jesus was a problem because his following was increasing.
It goes something like that. I like the context and the historical record. There was no Jordan nor Saudi arabia. These are name changes and the city they came Gaza was part of Israel. There was no Islamic faith until later.
At some point the philistines moved into the area.
Anyway, they dont like Jewish people because it’s not Islam today. I think Jordan is part of Israel, the whole of Jerusalem, the northern area, too.
Meticulous? Nope, just destroy.
Why have a President if individual judges all over the Country can do whatever they want
Question or statement? Answer it yourself. Or you can’t think for yourself and need someone to tell what to think?
He has eight likes, including mine. You only have one, and that was for comic relief.