The Senate refused to re-confirm Jeffrey Baran for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2023, but taxpayers ended up on the hook, anyway.
How?🤔
Here's the story.
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How?🤔
Here's the story.
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President Biden re-nominated Baran, who had served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 2014, but a pro-nuclear group raised serious concerns about Baran's opposition to policies that enabled nuclear energy.
His renomination bid failed in the Senate.
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His renomination bid failed in the Senate.
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No matter. He'd just "burrow in," taking an ostensibly "nonpolitical" role in the federal bureaucracy.
He joined the Department of Energy as deputy asst. sec. for waste & minerals management. Got a pay bump, too.
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He joined the Department of Energy as deputy asst. sec. for waste & minerals management. Got a pay bump, too.
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Then, Trump offered deferred resignation, & Baran saw the writing on the wall.
He took the buyout, which is better than if he had stayed in the administration, planning to undermine it.
Even so, his "burrowing in" costs the taxpayer approximately $113,061.08, based on his new salary.
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He took the buyout, which is better than if he had stayed in the administration, planning to undermine it.
Even so, his "burrowing in" costs the taxpayer approximately $113,061.08, based on his new salary.
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This is the latest in my series on those who burrowed in to the bureaucracy.
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https://x.com/Tyler2ONeil/status/1919403890346258609
Baran took the buyout, but others haven't. An April poll found 75% of DC-based federal workers who make $75K+ & who voted for Kamala Harris say they won't follow a lawful Trump order if they think it bad policy.
We can't ignore this deep state.
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dailysignal.com/2025/07/20/thi…
We can't ignore this deep state.
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dailysignal.com/2025/07/20/thi…
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