Conservatives Tracking Down Partisans in the Federal Government Before Trump Takes Over

[Otto_Harper]

In mid-September, as tech billionaire Elon Musk intensified his efforts to elect Donald Trump as president, a wave of letters arrived at the Department of Transportation, asking the agency to turn over any emails and text messages that federal workers sent about the world’s wealthiest man and his sprawling technology empire.

The requests were like thousands of others sent in the past two years by Trump-allied groups seeking to identify perceived partisans within the federal government. Some have focused on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, others on employees who shared “off the record” information with reporters and on emails referencing “climate change.”

It’s a massive fishing expedition that has already sent a chill through federal agencies bracing for Trump’s second term.

With Trump set to return to the White House with a promise to shrink the federal government and eliminate civil servants seen as obstacles to his agenda, the groundwork laid by these groups could serve as a road map for a mass purging of personnel.

From larger story on CNN website:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/16/politics/foia-requests-federal-government-partisans/index.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Decapitate the Institutional memory.

Then find out how government dysfunctions.

[Blue_Tires]

4. They don't care...

All that matters to them is being in power...

No matter how badly they fuck up, Faux News will still spin it as a great success....

[SoFlaBro]

7. At some point, the news won't match their failing fucking personal budgets. MAGA about to shit the reality bed.

[lastlib]

6. Their GOAL is to MAKE it dysfunctional.....

Easier for the kakistocrats to clean up.

[flying_wahini]

2. Seems like they should at least wait till he is sworn in?

This is bad.

[Blue_Tires]

3. The political purges are coming...

👎

[2naSalit]

5. Just following orders.