Superb first step to (perhaps) stimulating the civil service zombies to EARN’ their (overset) salaries….and retirement benefits….all at the tax payers expense.
via buzzfeed:
Asked if the proposals were in response to any “deep state” conspiracies, senior administration officials instead cited a need for more efficiency in using government resources.
The Trump administration announced a trio of executive orders that will make it easier for federal agencies to fire employees — a move that officials say is aimed at using taxpayer dollars more efficiently and not in response to Trump and his allies’ belief that some career officials are purposefully sabotaging his presidency.
Senior administration officials did not give an explicit answer either way when asked if they believed in the so-called “deep state.” Instead, officials said on a Friday conference call with reporters that the new actions were about “efficient use of government resources.”
The president last tweeted about the “deep state” on Wednesday.
Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State. They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before! What goes around, comes around!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
The new executive orders will “empower good workers,” “advance a merit-based system,” and allow federal agencies “to remove poor-performing employees,” said Andrew Bremberg, director of domestic policy for the White House.
The orders stem from an announcement in Trump’s State of the Union address where he said Congress should “empower every Cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.”
Despite Trump including this issue in his wish list to Congress earlier this year, the administration is no longer waiting on lawmakers to take action. “The president called on Congress..they haven’t done so yet. In the meantime, the president is using all available tools in the executive branch to come as close as he can,” a senior administration official said.
The executive orders will significantly reduce the amount of time it takes for federal agencies to go through the process of firing a federal employee; reward “performance over seniority;” order agencies to work on renegotiating union contracts and publish them in a database; and require all federal employees to devote at least 75 percent of their work hours for agency purposes, senior administration officials said. The administration estimates that these actions could save taxpayers at least $100 million a year.
Robert