So my new concept is this: no personnel is policy.
Trump and Musk couldn't eliminate all regulatory burdens or repeal the CHIPS Act or cut Social Security benefits by congressional vote, so they're doing it by cutting the staff tasked with those priorities.
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-04-04-no-personnel-is-policy/
Trump and Musk couldn't eliminate all regulatory burdens or repeal the CHIPS Act or cut Social Security benefits by congressional vote, so they're doing it by cutting the staff tasked with those priorities.
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-04-04-no-personnel-is-policy/
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StB is a means through which conservatives have been trying to kill off vital government programs since Reagan by not giving them the resources to do their job. Then they use the excuse that they aren't doing their job to cut the program altogether.
That's P2025 in a nutshell.
You can just fire folks
Or, Trump now had the button to our Treasury payments system, so he can just push a button & turn out the lights
We didn’t realize how literal he was being when he said Nothing Will Fundamentally Change