Last time Trump ran into the law when he tried to stuff his cronies in federal agencies. So he now has a new strategy… move the agencies!
You will see more moves out of Washington, why?‘Wildly disruptive’: What happened last time Trump moved a federal agency out of DC
CNN
By Curt Devine
November 29, 2024As part of his campaign to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump made clear that in a second term in office, he’d move tens of thousands of federal jobs outside the “Washington swamp” and into “places filled with patriots who love America.”
“This,” Trump said in one campaign video, “is how I will shatter the deep state.”
The relocation of federal jobs outside Washington, DC, was something Trump embarked on near the end of his first term — shifting the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management about 2,000 miles west to Grand Junction, Colorado.
But if that move is any indication of what’s to come, the massive push to relocate federal jobs outside the Beltway comes with the risk of kneecapping agencies through the loss of experienced workers and bogging them down in logistical minutia.
The BLM move became an unproductive debacle marked by an exodus of experienced employees and a surge in vacancies that arguably undermined the then-Trump administration’s agenda, according to a half dozen current and former senior BLM staffers – including the agency’s current director — and a CNN review of government records.
That western relocation was “wildly disruptive” and should serve as a “cautionary tale” for the incoming Trump administration, said Tracy Stone-Manning, the Biden administration’s BLM director.
Relocating EPA headquarters blasted as ‘decapitation’
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is reportedly discussing the move, an effort described by a former agency employee as a “demolition plan.”
E&E News/PoliticoBy Kevin BogardusNovember 11, 2024EPA’s supporters are warning that relocating its headquarters outside of the nation’s capital could be catastrophic for the agency.
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump pledged to shift parts of the federal government outside of Washington, an effort he began during his last administration. Now, those at EPA worry their agency could be up for relocation as Trump seeks to shatter the “Deep State” in his coming second term.
Nate James, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 3331, which represents EPA headquarters employees, said many staff would leave the agency, choosing to stay with their families, rather than move to wherever the agency landed.
The oligarchs hate the federal agencies... they can't make the billions that they want. They want to dump their chemicals into the Love Canal and in the Cuyahoga River.
“This would be a devastating blow that would make it very difficult for what would be left of the agency, at least at the headquarters, to accomplish the mission,” James told POLITICO’s E&E News. “Because it could be advertised as a relocation, but really it would be decapitation.”[...]“This would be a devastating blow that would make it very difficult for what would be left of the agency, at least at the headquarters, to accomplish the mission,” James told POLITICO’s E&E News. “Because it could be advertised as a relocation, but really it would be decapitation.”
Yup, that is exactly what he wants. Keep this in mind... Trump is all about revenge.
Federal law prohibits the firing of federal employees without cause so this is Project 2025 way around the law, Trump swore on stack of Bible that he knew nothing about Project 2025 but... ProPublica writes;
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the 900-plus page blueprint for a potential second Trump term, recommends sending the BLM headquarters back to Colorado and relocating other agencies, ranging from the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional offices to the Air Traffic Organization and the American Indian Environmental Office.
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But scores of people who worked in the Trump administration helped draft Project 2025. They include William Perry Pendley, his former pick to helm the BLM. Pendley oversaw the headquarters relocation to Grand Junction and authored the Project 2025 chapter on the Department of the Interior, which includes the recommendation to move the BLM’s headquarters back to the West.Separate from Project 2025, Trump has doubled down on his plan to take aim at the federal bureaucracy as part of Agenda47, his campaign’s outline for a second term. “Just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado,” he said in March 2023, “as many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out, and I mean immediately, of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America.”
Translate: He will put his cronies who will answer to him and not the law.
You know that Trump found a soulmate in Musk who hates federal regulations as much as Trump does.
His first term was a dress rehearsal, he has plans to strip the entire federal government. He will be putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Just look at Musk he is mad at California for forcing labor laws on him. For making him follow the environmental laws, for making him follow the non-discrimination laws… he is mad. Trump is mad for all the laws he had to follow in his businesses.
So for revenge they are going to cripple the bureaucracy. Mark my words.
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You know this has been tried before, one of Connecticut's governors moved the state agencies out of the capitol and it also didn't work. The commissioners all work with the governor and the legislature, so that meant if the commissioners needed to be in a meeting in Hartford they had to drive half way across the state and back. Now they are all back in the Hartford area. I had attended regular meetings at the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity office in Hartford. I don't think that I would have attended if it was down in Bridgeport or another long drive.
So for these federal employees it is either move to a far way city or quit which is what Trump wants them to do.
