Here's the take from a top labor attorney: "Donald Trump’s administration could rack up a 'monumental' bill and is breaking the law by firing government workers on spurious grounds." The key word here is spurious defined as: "not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit." Counterfeit, that's a good characterization of Donald Trump and his minions. There is nothing genuine about the Oval Office lunatic, his bootlickers, and the GOP wimps in Congress that are horrified by him.
Here's the scenario...
"Officials have cited 'poor performance' when terminating thousands of federal workers. In many cases it’s not true, according to employees embroiled in the blitz, many of whom are now seeking legal advice."The acting deputy assistant secretary for policy and environmental management, and director of the office of policy analysis at the US Department of the Interior, resigned in protest this week against the mass firings of probationary employees. This is his observation...
“This is being done under the guise of ‘poor performance’ or ‘skills not aligned with needs’ but neither are true,” he told the Guardian. “First, no evidence was provided that would suggest that poor performance; in fact, I know some of the individuals that were down my chain of supervision and know they were among the best performers."
There's more...
“Second, [there has been] no evidence or analysis of a lack of alignment with needs. Some of the people terminated in my chain actually work on performance and efficiency, so they literally work on the public argument of the Doge.”
An “astounding” level of “fraud, waste and abuse” has been occurring in the Trump administration , according to Suzanne Summerlin, a labor attorney, in the process of revamping a string of departments and agencies. This lawlessness will result in...
"...hundreds of thousands of former federal employees being owed back pay, plus interest, plus benefits, plus attorneys fees,” said Summerlin. “When the bill comes it will be monumental.”The Guardian says the number is 220,000...federal government probationary employees
"One veteran federal worker who spoke to the Guardian had only been a few weeks away from passing her one-year probationary period to be hired permanently by the US Forest Service. Instead they received a termination notice citing poor performance. They had, in fact, received positive performance reviews, a copy of which they shared with the Guardian."
Not only do we have a situation of illegal firings that experts say will most likely lead to litigation, the Trump administration has put 220,000 workers out of work, some of whom will seek unemployment benefits. And Musk and Trump say they are only getting started. Hey, no one will deny that the U.S. government is a whirling pork barrel, but the US Forest Service incident, above, is an example of doing it the wrong way. And this is all confirmed by several labor professionals around the country.
Here's another devastating episode...“I would have been a permanent employee on March 10,” they said. “I’ve lost my medical insurance. I have an incurable disease that I kind of need a doctor for. I won’t be able to pay those bills. I’m waiting for my eviction notice right now.”
This worker exclaims...
“Elon Musk destroyed 19 years of my career, it’s gone. He put a label on us. We’ve been labeled the fraud, the waste and the bloat of the government,” the worker said. “They have effectively destroyed our careers. We won’t recover from this. There’s no way. The financial fallout is catastrophic, and he’s dismantling everything. I mean, I don’t know how this helps the working man.'
No, "none of this helps the working man. It only helps the two corrupt individuals who are making most Americans miserable...Donald Trump and Elon Musk. In both cases they stand to gain from this whole debacle on a financial basis, as well as usurping more power for themselves and the radical right. But what is more overwhelming and pathetic is the fact that voters put something like Donald Trump in the White House. Yes. I said "something," because, as I described him in a recent post, he is "enamored with Satan"...
"...because the Prince of Darkness represents the evil ways in which Donald Trump has led his life, conducted his businesses, and is now terrorizing and destroying America."
It goes without saying, if we don't do something soon, it will be too late. But I said it anyway.
