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The Architect of Project 2025 is implementing Phase Two of their Government Demolition Plan [1]

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Date: 2025-02-26

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I put the ‘fear of Trump’ in them — your turn Russ, to finish em off.

One of the key architects of Project 2025 it now taking his swing at the Federal Workforce, now that ‘amateur hour’ of the Musk DOGE “slash and burn” effort is starting to wear out ‘its welcome’ ...

The Trump administration sets the stage for large-scale federal worker layoffs in a new memo

by Chris Megerian, AP — Feb 26, 2025

Federal agencies must develop plans to eliminate employee positions, according to a memo distributed Wednesday by President Donald Trump ‘s administration that sets in motion what could become a s weeping realignment of American government .

[...] Administration officials framed their effort as a cost-saving measure but with a clear ideological goal. “The federal government is costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt. At the same time, it is not producing results for the American public,” said the memo from Russell Vought, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, which functions as a human resources agency. “Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hard-working American citizens.” Vought was an author or Project 2025 , a conservative blueprint for Trump’s second term, and he has advocated for centralizing power under the presidency and dismantling federal bureaucracy. “We’re not going to save our country without a little confrontation,” Vought said last summer during a podcast hosted by Trump ally Stephen Bannon.

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Agencies have until March 13, to submit their first phase of Reduction In Force (RIF), to reduce their staff to the bone. Additional RIF phases are to follow, as now being demanded by [un-elected] Russel Vought, from his OBM cat-bird seat of Musk-like power:

OPM-OMB Memo Guidance on Agency RIF and Reorganization Plans Requested by Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative 2-26-2025 [Cloud Link to RIF Memo]



Trump endorsed this mass downsizing effort in his adoration Cabinet Meeting today, by riffing on “waste and fraud” target numbers, without a shred of evidence to back-up his outrageous claims:

Trump said the Environmental Protection Agency could cut its workforce by 65%.

(Dept of Education was being targeted too, among others — being multi-cast LIVE on multiple channels this morning, before I finally turned off my TV.) Who needs the EPA? Fire em all! ... Despite his lying claims to the contrary, Donald Trump damn-well knew about Project 2025’s Agenda. Hell, he was the Keynote speaker at a Heritage Foundation conference back in 2022, where he explained how important he thought their “policy proposals” really are: [...]

And tonight, the Washington Post reports that in April 2022, Donald Trump shared a 45 minute private flight with [Kevin] Roberts on route to a Heritage Foundation conference where Trump said in a keynote address, "The group's policy proposals are going to lay the groundwork and detailed plans for exactly what our movement will do ." www.mediamatters.org — Aug 7, 2024 We are now seeing that Project 2025 “groundwork” paving over and demolishing our Government, based on radical, lying claims of “waste, fraud and abuse” — without a credibility presentation of the evidence supporting their extraordinary claims. Who’s got the time for humanity? When they got Millionaires to pay back … speaking of “waste, fraud and abuse,” being inflicted on American Tax Payers. — — “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” Especially when the Legacy Media just goes along with their unproven Lies, with nary a serious objection. Maybe someone will step up — and turn off their Spigot!? Someday soon, eh?

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