DAY ONE EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Punchbowl News is reporting that top domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller briefed House and Senate GOP leadership Sunday afternoon about the executive orders the incoming maladministration plans to issue this coming week.
The scale of executive orders Miller described was stunning, despite the fact that ConvictedFelon34 talked about many of them on the campaign trail for months.
They cover immigration, energy policy and overhauling federal government operations:
Government reform: An executive order that provides a process for removing insubordinate employees; another that rewrites federal hiring rules; An executive order establishing the so-called Department of Government Efficiency; Executive order establishing Schedule F for senior federal employees, removing their civil service protections and making their employment at the will of the president; executive order to end government requirements on DEI in the private sector with regard to government contracting requirements; executive order rescinding all DEI and gender-related orders from the Biden administration.
Energy: Executive order ending all spending on the “Green New Deal” and other climate-related priorities from the Biden administration - this would affect programs under the Inflation Reduction Act; executive order to speed construction of pipelines; executive order easing energy permitting for coal, natural gas and shale projects; executive order to open up offshore drilling (this will run into difficulty because Biden blocked offshore drilling using a federal law that would have to be repealed for this executive order to take effect; executi8ve order repealing rules for tax breaks on electric vehicles; executive order to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling (this will also run into the roadblock erected by Biden when he blocked drilling); executive order to speed development of energy production from Alaska; executive order to declare a national emergency related to energy.
Immigration and the border: executive order classifying Mexican drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations;” executive order declaring an national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, allowing the deployment of active military forces to the border; executive order stiffening interior enforcement by ICE in apprehending undocumented immigrants for deportation; executive order to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy; executive order ending “catch and release”; executive order to generally restrict entry into the United States from designated countries, re-activating the “Muslim ban.”
If you had any doubt that the ConvictedFelon34 Maladministration intends to reverse all progress in this country and re-establish an atmosphere of white supremacy while destroying all efforts to combat climate change, this list should end that doubt for once and all.
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To Whom It May Concern, Which Is Probably Nobody:
You know, any law you see in the books these days might as well be written in disappearing ink. Statutes? Erased. Ignored. Rendered moot by a wave of the wrong pen. My wife and I? We’re not playing roulette with our lives. We’re paying attention to the red flags, particularly the official manual of red flags: Project 2025. Spoiler alert—it’s not light bedtime reading.
Right now, we’re headed to Canada. Not for the maple syrup or the polite conversation, though both are delightful. No, we’re scouting out the area we might soon call home. It’s where we’ll live if the United States, our United States, becomes too dangerous for two women in love. We’re meeting with an immigration attorney, sorting out the details of my potential citizenship. I can already hear the voices of certain people saying, “Oh, you’re overreacting.” To those people: I’m married to a woman, and we’re both gay. Do I need to paint a bigger bullseye on us, or can you already see it from space?
And no, I don’t trust this new regime to just run the country poorly. I trust them to raze it to the ground. I trust them to take a wrecking ball to democracy with the same gusto the Germans had for destroying Europe.
Now, here’s the thing: please don’t give me the resistance lecture. Don’t tell me to stay and fight. Don’t tell me I’m overreacting, hysterical, melodramatic—oh, I know the script. I’ve read it before. What I haven’t seen, though, is what you’re doing. Yes, you, the one who keeps saying “we should be doing something.” What exactly is it that you’re doing? Because I’ll tell you what we’re doing: we’re staying alive.
End of memo.
They're trying to snow us, before they show themselves to be snowflakes.
Schedule F won't wash; there are statutes on the books protecting civil service. What they can do is to make life difficult for career employees, hoping they'll find it too difficult to keep working.