Not wanting to go down the political rabbit hole. But as a soon to be new fed within the IC in January…How do you think this election impacts the agencies? Are we thinking huge cuts in budget and personnel? Or not that much impact and business as usual?
Honestly, I am not worried about it. I would take a few years for changes to come, but for the two agencies that you were in process for, I doubt that they would have any major cuts.
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The missions could change dramatically and if trump gets what he wants from congress, being able to fire federal employees and replace them with political appointees, then the exec agencies are screwed and will cease to exist. If that happens , the agencies in the IC just become a gestapo. Also, remember this is the guy who stole IC products and refused to return them and who shared TS information with a billionaire. This isn’t an admin that respects the law or in specificity, national security. Ppl voted for it and regardless, in the IC, we have to live with it.
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It’s NOT Trump’s plan to replace federal employees with political appointees.
The issue isn’t with the type of employee but with competence, performance and need.
It’s too difficult to fire federal employee who are incompetent, those who perform poorly AND those that are no longer needed. The goal is to make government work more like private work.
He’s said so previously. The plan is also spelled out in the Project 2025 plan which now, after the election, trump advisors are now saying that, “yes, we lied, project 2025 was always the true agenda”. Should we not believe them?
Trump has publicly denounced Project 2025 multiple times. No advisor of his has ever said that, except trolls on Twitter/X trying to make a sarcastic joke. Stop fear mongering and do some research.
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You really should not put so much stock into a person who has lied repeatedly over stupid crap. I learned the hard way that means they’re lying about much bigger things.
I think I’m just going to uninstall all my browsers at this point because this is f’n depressing to watch.
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Steve Bannon is not an advisor of his?
He was quoting Matt Walsh’s sarcastic joke. My goodness
Ah i see. So how about the fact that many Project 2025 policies are in trumps policy agenda?
It’s not like Trump is some Bastian of integrity or honesty.
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I think we should all be worried about smart intelligent capable ethical civil servants who don’t have the same political views as Mr. Trump fleeing, retiring, or being removed from their government positions. Gutted agencies don’t perform or function properly. If Social Security becomes one of these agencies Trump voters will not be happy.
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Schedule F makes it easier to do so. Trumps version of “incompetent” is those that don’t agree with him.
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No . . . It isn’t . . . If you haven’t seen incompetence in government, I’m surprised that you can even type here.
Incompetence can be seen everywhere in every industry and of course I’ve seen it. Getting rid of public servants because of their incompetence is different than getting rid of them because of their personal and/or political beliefs . Who do you think is on the “subversive watchlists” of rogue bureaucrats being compiled? Have you read about the lavender scares of the 50’s? or McCarthyism? There is a blue print for this behavior and those who participated in it at that time are now seen to be on the wrong/unjust side of history. It appears to me, our nation is moving backwards.
I am wondering about this too. In a similar situation. Wondering if a hiring freeze would prevent one from starting a job they have already been hired for, but haven’t started quite yet.
I would at least do everything in my power to get a start date before Jan 1 2025.
If you will be a federal employee in any of the State or Civil service agencies, you may want to start looking elsewhere. If you are a senior federal employee regardless of agency, you will want to review the new administration’s upcoming plans and requirements.
They have stated their plans many times over since 2016 election. Back then, they called it “draining the swamp.” If you watched closely, you saw many agencies got stripped down to their bare bones. State Dept probably got hit the worst.
I am not judging or providing any opinions here. Just offering some objective thoughts on the future of the federal job market.
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I have been reassured by my agency that my EOD of 1/27 is locked in and nothing to worry about. My relocation funding was approved. So I’m assuming all is good on my end, hopefully.
Have a back up plan in place. Reassurances are as easy to give as apologies.
Would be weird to have them pay for my move but then not let me start. But yeah, I could always keep working my remote job until whatever happens, blows over.
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Business as usual. Saber rattling, cage shaking, rhetoric…but both sides understand you can’t move the needle too much. It meanders all over, there is waste, some abuse…then the pendulum swings back the other way.
Learn to exist under both, take everything they say, particularly the side you agree with…with a large grain of salt.
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