Trump Offers Federal Workers the Option to Resign

Nithavela said:

1 2 3 4 5 6. Bet all your money on it.

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Thx. I bet the house on it......

wing2000 said:

AP articile....

....and it seems nobody knows why Elon Musk would need access "to the U.S. Treasury payment system, which is responsible for 1 billion payments per year totaling $5 trillion. It includes sensitive information involving bank accounts and Social Security payments."

Obviously, that's a LOT of sensitive, personal information in the hands of Musk.

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Musk staffer 'mistakenly' given ability to edit Treasury Department payment system, legal filings say​

Whoops!

Treasury Department officials said the "error" was quickly corrected, and a forensic investigation into the actions of Marko Elez -- who resigned from his position last week after The Wall Street Journal unearthed a series of racist social media posts -- remains ongoing.

[Lucky for him a series of racist social media posts is free speech, unlike "Gulf of Mexico" or "women in leadership". Musk and the Veep want him back on the job.]

"To the best of our knowledge, Mr. Elez never..." [did anything hinky.]

According to Gioeli, Treasury Department officials also provided Elez with copies of the "source code" for multiple payment systems that he could edit in a digital "sandbox."

iluvatar5150 said:

DOGE isn't auditing anything. Strolling in and shutting things off isn't "auditing". Tweeting out misinformation about agency spending isn't "auditing". DOGE is just breaking things.

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Maybe you aren't following the news. Reports come out daily as to how much money is being spent on all kinds of crazy things. It will all go to Congress when complete.

RestoreTheJoy said:

Maybe you aren't following the news. Reports come out daily as to how much money is being spent on all kinds of crazy things. It will all go to Congress when complete.

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Maybe you aren’t following the news and seeing how many of Musk’s claims have turned out to be bogus. They’re not auditing. They’re lying.

wing2000 said:

These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired...​

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The Trump administration’s sweeping offer of deferred resignations — which the government says will allow workers to get paid until September — was to many a guarantee of short-term financial security amid the tumult of massive cuts in the federal workforce. But, across agencies, some probationary employees were mistakenly fired after taking or attempting to take the “fork” offer, according to interviews with dozens of federal workers and records obtained by The Post.

And now, administration officials and agency leads are scrambling to fix their blunders and get back in touch with employees who have lost access to government emails and work devices.

An official with the Office of Personnel Management said that pool of workers, who have fewer job protections than permanent employees, were always eligible for the deal. But The Post documented instances of such firings at several agencies, including the Education Department, the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. Officials with at least two agencies, the USDA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told probationary employees they were deemed ineligible for the “fork” offer by the Office of Personnel Management, known as OPM, according to emails obtained by The Post.

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only the best

wing2000 said:

These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired...​

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The Trump administration’s sweeping offer of deferred resignations — which the government says will allow workers to get paid until September — was to many a guarantee of short-term financial security amid the tumult of massive cuts in the federal workforce. But, across agencies, some probationary employees were mistakenly fired after taking or attempting to take the “fork” offer, according to interviews with dozens of federal workers and records obtained by The Post.

And now, administration officials and agency leads are scrambling to fix their blunders and get back in touch with employees who have lost access to government emails and work devices.

An official with the Office of Personnel Management said that pool of workers, who have fewer job protections than permanent employees, were always eligible for the deal. But The Post documented instances of such firings at several agencies, including the Education Department, the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. Officials with at least two agencies, the USDA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told probationary employees they were deemed ineligible for the “fork” offer by the Office of Personnel Management, known as OPM, according to emails obtained by The Post.

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Good. Glad the error is being fixed. It should be.

wing2000 said:

The error was entirely preventable. A simple cross check of employees who accepted the offer could have been done before sending letters of dismissal. It simply was not a priority.

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Yup they made a mistake. At least it's being fixed.

wing2000 said:

These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired...​

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The Trump administration’s sweeping offer of deferred resignations — which the government says will allow workers to get paid until September — was to many a guarantee of short-term financial security amid the tumult of massive cuts in the federal workforce. But, across agencies, some probationary employees were mistakenly fired after taking or attempting to take the “fork” offer, according to interviews with dozens of federal workers and records obtained by The Post.

And now, administration officials and agency leads are scrambling to fix their blunders and get back in touch with employees who have lost access to government emails and work devices.

An official with the Office of Personnel Management said that pool of workers, who have fewer job protections than permanent employees, were always eligible for the deal. But The Post documented instances of such firings at several agencies, including the Education Department, the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. Officials with at least two agencies, the USDA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told probationary employees they were deemed ineligible for the “fork” offer by the Office of Personnel Management, known as OPM, according to emails obtained by The Post.

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Fell for the old switcheroo.

iluvatar5150 said:

Maybe you aren’t following the news and seeing how many of Musk’s claims have turned out to be bogus. They’re not auditing. They’re lying.

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The propagandists are assuring its base nonstop that his findings aren't true. Then they are walking back those claims. CNN did it just yesterday on the "transgender mice"

"CNN issued a correction after the network inaccurately asserted that President Donald Trump “falsely claimed” the Biden administration spent $8 million to make mice transgender.

During his joint address to Congress on Tuesday, Trump cited several examples of “appalling waste” he had cut, including $8.2 million in NIH-funded studies on “gender-affirming” hormone treatments mice. CNN’s Deidre McPhillips initially tried to dispute the claim, arguing only about $500,000 had been allocated for similar research in monkeys — she was later forced to issue a correction after the White House proved CNN’s “fact check” inaccurate in a statement."

“Trump falsely claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency identified government spending of ‘$8 million for making mice transgender,'” CNN’s original fact check read.

The White House then released a statement listing six NIH grants for studies on hormone treatments in mice, a combined total of $8,290,053. The Biden-era grants included $455,000 to study “gender-affirming hormone therapy on HIV-vaccine induced immune responses, $2.5 million to study the reproductive consequences of hormone therapy, $299,940 to study testosterone therapy on breast cancer risk and treatment outcomes, $735,113 to study the effects of hormone therapy on mouse microbiomes, $1.2 million to study “androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis” and $3.1 million to study hormones as mediators of sex influences in asthma. All listed studies involved hormonal replacement in mice.


CNN’s initial fact check Wednesday morning focused narrowly on three NIH studies. One focused on a $299,940 grant from the National Cancer Institute seeking “to compare breast cancer rates among female mice and those receiving testosterone therapy.” Two others from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases totaling $455,120 focused on how “an HIV vaccine worked in mice that had received cross-sex hormone therapy.”


The outlet later updated its page, changing “Trump falsely claimed” to “This claim needs context.” The outlet also explicitly acknowledged its earlier error, writing “An earlier version of this item incorrectly characterized as false Trump’s claim about federal money being spent for ‘making mice transgender.'”

You have to wait for facts, not just jump on whatever confirms your bias.

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