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Rep. Don Beyer Profile picture
@RepDonBeyer
Nov 27, 2020 • 13 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
This is an extremely important story that isn't getting the attention it deserves.

After GSA initiated the presidential transition, I warned that there would still be new Trump sabotage to come. This is exactly what I was concerned about.

Here's what's happening-- 1/
Presidents appoint leaders of federal agencies, for instance Cabinet secretaries and their staffs, but most civil servants are career federal employees, a professional staff that provide continuity no matter which party is in power. Congress passed laws to create this system. 2/
It wasn't always this way. There was a time when an incoming president handed out government jobs to loyalists and supporters after taking office, and the civil service constantly turned over with administrations. That was terrible for the country. 3/
Congress passed the Pendleton Act in 1883 to end this practice (the "spoils system"), and over time created a permanent, professional civil service that works for the American people, not the benefit of one person.

Trump is trying to undo that now. 4/
To bypass laws enacted by Congress that protect career civil servants from being fired for political reasons, Trump issued an Executive Order just before the election creating a new classification of federal employees, "Schedule F," who can be terminated without cause. 5/ Image
The White House ordered every agency to reclassify some of its workforce as Schedule F by January 19, 2021, the day before the Inauguration.

At the time, Trump believed he would get a second term, and planned to fire protected employees like Dr. Fauci for imagined disloyalty. 6/
But once it became clear Trump lost the election, a new goal came into view: sabotaging President-elect Biden.

Sometime in the last week, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) produced a memo which reclassified **88%** of its workers as Schedule F.
Trump now believes he can fire nearly everyone at OMB at will. More agencies are likely to follow OMB in reclassifying portions of their workforces as Schedule F soon. Trump likely hopes to replace swathes of the career federal workforce with loyalists. 8/ reuters.com/article/usa-el…
Obviously we are not taking this sitting down. Democrats in both House and Senate have filed legislation to nullify Trump's Schedule F order. 9/
The @OversightDems Committee is pursuing an investigation to track other reclassifications of workers, so that we can see where this is happening. Lawsuits have been filed, and a big fight over this is coming. 10/
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2020…
I'm working with colleagues to block funding for reclassification of federal workers under Trump's order.

Trump hopes to leave his successor with a sabotaged government amid a pandemic and economic crisis. It's contemptible and we have to stop him. 11/11
One more thing. Some of you may remember that a top public official Trump appointed to oversee the federal workforce resigned last month because he could not in good conscience cooperate with a new order from the President. He resigned over this. 12/11 washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
More: the Energy Department and Office of Personnel Management have both reportedly taken steps to reclassify portions of their workforces as Schedule F.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
eenews.net/stories/106371…
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/this-exce…
@mattshuham got the form the Administration is using: ImageImageImage

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Oct 22
Can we talk about how awful Trump's presidency was? It can be easy to forget. Some might want to forget, but day after day there was a new crisis at the expense of the American people.

We need a reminder, so I’m breaking down some of his worst moments in this thread:
Trump collaborated with Russian efforts to interfere in our elections to help him win, lied about it, refused to endorse American intelligence confirming it, and then fired FBI Director James Comey to kill the investigation.

Just a shameless disregard for American democracy. Image
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As President, he pressured Ukraine to interfere in our elections and then blocked Congress from obtaining key evidence in an attempt to cover it up.

This led to the House’s first impeachment of Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Image
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Apr 3
A few days ago the largest the Republican Study Committee, which counts 4 in 5 House Republicans as members, issued a new budget that seeks a massive transformation of American society. Their proposed changes are a blueprint for a dystopian hellscape. 1/
beyer.house.gov/news/documents…
What's in this Republican budget? It's here if you want to read it for yourself:


We took a closer look at the policy changes they proposed and legislation they endorsed, and documented what it means with citations, which follow below-- 2/hern.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
It would wreck the American health care system for seniors, children, and everyone in between.

They'd turn Medicare into a voucher program, raise Medicare costs and drug costs, gut the ACA and its coverage guarantee for preexisting conditions, and slash Medicaid and CHIP. 3/ Image
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Jun 16, 2023
This was quietly a big week in the U.S. House. Some developments with major implications for the future--

1) The largest group of House Republicans issued its FY24 budget, calling for Social Security cuts for regular people and tax cuts for the wealthy:
2) House Republicans advanced a new tax cut law, aka the "GOP Tax Scam 2.0."

The bill would cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and increase the deficit -- right after Republicans spent months threatening to wreck the economy to extract cuts.
3) Far right MAGA Republicans took control of the House floor, shutting down votes and refusing to end their blockade unless Speaker Kevin McCarthy broke his debt deal with President Biden:
nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/…

4) Which McCarthy promptly agreed to do:
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Apr 14, 2023
We just passed 100 days since the beginning of the 118th Congress, and things are not going well for the Republican majority in the House.

They've struggled to pass legislation, craft a budget, or agree on priorities. And now their leaders are openly fighting with each other.🧵
You remember how it started: the extreme right of the GOP conference denied Kevin McCarthy support in vote after vote, inflicting brutal humiliation on him and plunging the House into chaos not seen in over 150 years, since before the Civil War Image
When it finally ended on the 15th ballot, McCarthy was all smiles. But then it emerged that he had made secret deals with far right Republicans that effectively bargained away much of the power of his speakership, leaving him in a precarious position.

That colored what followed. Image
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Apr 13, 2023
If true, the reported existence of a hidden financial relationship between a conservative donor and a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is inexcusable and unacceptable.

Justice Thomas should resign.
I have not previously called for Justice Thomas' resignation and do not do so lightly now. He has shown a clear pattern of disregarding ethics rules and hiding conflicts of interest, and is failing to meet the ethical standards to which our highest public officials should be held
Today the Supreme Court faces a crisis of public confidence, a crisis Justice Thomas helped create.

Faced with the choice to take the ethical high road by recusing himself from cases due to conflicts of interest, Thomas always fails to do the right thing.
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Apr 2, 2023
House Republican leaders say they will try to defund the police in response to the criminal indictment of Donald Trump
I've been warning about this before last year's midterm, as the MAGA Republican faction in the House eyed a little-known procedural mechanism which they want use to interfere with law enforcement investigations of Trump:
As I wrote in the @BulwarkOnline, the narrow Speaker election gave the extreme MAGA faction huge leverage over McCarthy, which they hope to use in spending matters -- including by using the purse strings to interfere with criminal investigations of Trump
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