There is so much going on so quickly it is hard to keep up, and by all means, send us your comments on anything that Trump 47 is doing with which you disagree. We welcome that sort of debate. We’d also like Congress to pass some laws on some of this crap to end the Executive order Doom Loop.
You know what I mean.
Today’s example makes me cheer on the inside – I’m down with some awful fever-less coughing thing that’s sucking the life out of me and making it difficult to keep it all running seamlessly. This perked me up.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order overturning President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 executive order creating race-based hiring requirements for federal contractors. Paired with that is a memo from the office of personnel management placing all DEI employees on leave and shutting down DEI programs and offices.
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In addition to overturning affirmative action for contractors, Trump’s executive order declares DEI illegal and advises corporations and federally funded universities to end all illegal discrimination, with DEI falling under that umbrella.
Likewise, Trump took action to rid the Federal Aviation Administration of DEI hiring practices and return the agency to a merit-based system. Trump instructed the Secretary of Transportation and FAA administrator to end preferential hiring protocols for certain demographic criteria and revoke DEI programming inside the agency.
A leave of absence (LOA)means something, yes. They are not “gone” “gone” but in limbo. The traditional move is to sweep them into some new role somewhere in the belly of the swamp beast. The assumption, and we all know better than that, is these vestigial government “organs” will be flushed by the DOGE enema, assuming it survives the campaign to undermine it, waged on the left and taking hold on the right. There is one, trust me. And that LOA is not all bad. Whatever cutting or gutting is done will start with LOAs.
The DOGE plan was always clear about the recommendations. Identify waste and duplication, consolidate and streamline, and offer early retirement and incentives to go away. Severance, so they would have time to “learn to code.”
We need to get Congress to make the moves required to finalize changes like downsizing or eliminating parts of the Executive Branch. I’ll believe it when I see it is a reasonable response, so an EO closing all the DEI offices and furloughing their personnel – as if they are not an essential business of government – is little more than splashy and headline-grabbing. Still, we’ve all been at this long enough to know it’s little more than the catalyst for some lawsuit or whatever, and there will be a lot of those.
What we can take away is that these poison peddlers will be offline in the interim, and that is yuge!
We also need to consider that as Trump ends Federal funding for DEI, there is a trickle-down to the local level. States and schools get federal money.
