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Newly confirmed FBI director Kash Patel is to be named acting ATF director as well.

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Trump expected to name Kash Patel as acting ATF director: Sources

Donald Trump is expected to name FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, sources told ABC News.
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I’m not an agencyologist, but I suspect the ATF is about to cease to exist.
 
brihard said:
Newly confirmed FBI director Kash Patel is to be named acting ATF director as well.

abcnews.go.com

Trump expected to name Kash Patel as acting ATF director: Sources

Donald Trump is expected to name FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, sources told ABC News.
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I’m not an agencyologist, but I suspect the ATF is about to cease to exist.
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Of course, the 2nd Amendment has the right of way ;)

Rep. Burlison Introduces the Abolish the ATF Act to Defend Americans’ Second Amendment Rights​



Rep. Burlison Introduces the Abolish the ATF Act to Defend Americans’ Second Amendment Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Eric Burlison (R-MO-07) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO-04) introduced the “Abolish the ATF Act,” to safeguard Americans’ Second Amendment rights and
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daftandbarmy said:
Of course, the 2nd Amendment has the right of way ;)

Rep. Burlison Introduces the Abolish the ATF Act to Defend Americans’ Second Amendment Rights​



Rep. Burlison Introduces the Abolish the ATF Act to Defend Americans’ Second Amendment Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Eric Burlison (R-MO-07) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO-04) introduced the “Abolish the ATF Act,” to safeguard Americans’ Second Amendment rights and
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But what about all that Alcohol & Tobacco?!
 
I'm glad Musk and DOGE are taking a reasonable, well considered approach to examining opportunities to rationalize the Federal workforce...

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Document work or resign, Doge says to US federal workers in email

The weekend email comes as Elon Musk leads an effort to aggressively curtail the government workforce.
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US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign - the latest development in the Trump administration's efforts to scale back the federal workforce.

The email came after Trump's billionaire confidante Elon Musk posted on X that employees would "shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week".

"Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," he wrote.
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But for those that act fast there is opportunity!
On Sunday morning, Musk wrote on his social media platform X that "a large number of responses have been received already", adding: "These are the people who should be considered for promotion."
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It's a military purge to install officers loyal to the individual and not to the Constitution.
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How the hell would Thomas Juneau know that? Does he know all the people involved?
 
GR66 said:
I'm glad Musk and DOGE are taking a reasonable, well considered approach to examining opportunities to rationalize the Federal workforce...
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US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign
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I can empathize with wanting to hold people accountable for their actual productivity.
 
Jarnhamar said:
I can empathize with wanting to hold people accountable for their actual productivity.
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Who doesn't? But is a mass email on a weekend with no details on the criteria the way to do it? I bet there are tons of Federal employees that are in totally required positions doing hard work that are stressing right now about what happens if they don't write five acceptable bullet points in their response.

Weeding out fraud and fat is not bad. Doing it in a way that is unprofessional and disrespectful to your staff is.
 
It seems the apparently unlimited scope of Executive Orders is now able to bypass silly little things like due process, treaties, contracts, normal HR practice and labour agreements. Who needs Congress - might as well fire them too; they're not doing anything.
 
GR66 said:
Who doesn't? But is a mass email on a weekend with no details on the criteria the way to do it? I bet there are tons of Federal employees that are in totally required positions doing hard work that are stressing right now about what happens if they don't write five acceptable bullet points in their response.

Weeding out fraud and fat is not bad. Doing it in a way that is unprofessional and disrespectful to your staff is.
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Not to mention the morality and legality of it.

Framing failure to reply to an email on the next working day as a voluntary resignation- with the corresponding forfeiture of termination pay, benefits window etc, is just...
 
GR66 said:
Who doesn't? But is a mass email on a weekend with no details on the criteria the way to do it? I bet there are tons of Federal employees that are in totally required positions doing hard work that are stressing right now about what happens if they don't write five acceptable bullet points in their response.
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The details and criteria seem straight forward. What did you do at work last week? I'm an average worker and I can list off a dozen core-job tasks I did last week and some above and beyond stuff. This shouldn't be hard for any government employee to do.

Whether the work it's deemed acceptable or not is a different issue.

GR66 said:
Weeding out fraud and fat is not bad. Doing it in a way that is unprofessional and disrespectful to your staff is.
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In Canada the government would spend $10 million dollars to pay consultants to form a research group to study what questions to ask, then $20 million dollars to run the program (which will go over budget). The group picked to run the program will sub-contract to another group with no experience running said type of program.

DOGE is sending an email.

dapaterson said:
Lots of employees do not sit at a desk reading their email. Groundskeepers. Cooks. And so on...
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That might be a good method of catching supervisors not reading their emails or communicating properly with their staff.




Do this or your fired, do that or your fired, if you don't do this or that you're fired, IS a really shitty axe to constantly hang over employees heads and definitely an impression Musk (or working for Musk) gives off.
 
Jarnhamar said:
The details and criteria seem straight forward. What did you do at work last week? I'm an average worker and I can list off a dozen core-job tasks I did last week and some above and beyond stuff. This shouldn't be hard for any government employee to do.

Whether the work it's deemed acceptable or not is a different issue.


In Canada the government would spend $10 million dollars to pay consultants to form a research group to study what questions to ask, then $20 million dollars to run the program (which will go over budget). The group picked to run the program will sub-contract to another group with no experience running said type of program.

DOGE is sending an email.


That might be a good method of catching supervisors not reading their emails or communicating properly with their staff.




Do this or your fired, do that or your fired, if you don't do this or that you're fired, IS a really shitty axe to constantly hang over employees heads and definitely an impression Musk (or working for Musk) gives off.
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My guess is that it's not really about the work people did last week. What he's doing is a sort of census.

By Tuesday, he'll know how many government staff are on email and responding to requests for information. From him.

And he'll have all their email addresses.

This is a huge amount of critically important data, and a sort of reporting hierarchy that transcends all the traditional org charts.
 
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