🚨 #Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.
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Trump administration to offer federal workers a buyout to resign
The Trump administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.Garrett Haake (NBC News)
Laffy
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Via Joyce Vance:
This is a blatant effort to get career people to leave so #Trump can replace them with loyalists. And, given his track record in his own business dealings, it’s not hard to imagine him looking for a way to renege once people are out.
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This was so obvious after the "Mandate for Leadership" of #Project2025 was published.--I really hate that I seem to be right:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1134…
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in reply to Laffy • • •#USpol #TrumpCoup
Very true, and even though I had expected most of this, it is something else to see the ("separately") expected speed with which #Project2025 progresses, all in parallel...
I can give kudos to the #OrangePeril for one thing only: his stamina at his age.
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in reply to Laffy • • •Same, I just thought, it'd take him more weeks...
I did not see the reclaiming of the #PanamaCanal, #Canada as the 51st US state (;)), and the #GreenlandPurchase (or else) coming, though, I have to admit.
Next-level insanity.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Unknown parent • • •@philip_cardella
True, however the carrying-out is breathtaking. Granted, #Hitler was similary swift in 1993, even without #SocialMedia, the internet, and global communications. Today, there are so many more people involved.
PS:
For those of you for whom #AmericaFirst does not ring an alarm bell:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1128…
#USHistory #Fascism #Isolationism
cc
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Unknown parent • • •@philip_cardella
#PanamaCanal #RonaldReagan #TrumpCoup
I guess, I was too young, but yes, #Reagan did talk a lot about the canal.
However, it was a pipedream even back then in 1977:
"It is possible that the canal could be defended against a hostile Panamanian population, backed by guerrillas from other Latin American countries, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff say it would take over 100,000 men, ..."
nytimes.com/1977/08/28/archive…
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Unknown parent • • •@philip_cardella
#TrumpCould #MexicanBorder
Oh, and yes, the idea of closing the Mexican border even predates #Reagan:
"#Nixon [#OperationIntercept] and #Reagan [#OperationInterceptII]tried closing the border to pressure Mexico – here’s what happened..."
"Although the border was reopened within a matter of days, once again, the shutdown severely hurt the border economy – as well as relations between the two countries."
theconversation.com/nixon-and-…
@GottaLaff
Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico – here’s what happened
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Unknown parent • • •@philip_cardella
I only wished it were final-stage dementia... 😜
@GottaLaff