{"id":16429,"date":"2025-01-22T06:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=16429"},"modified":"2025-01-22T06:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T06:15:38","slug":"doge-claims-first-scalp-in-efforts-to-cut-government-and-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=16429","title":{"rendered":"DOGE Claims First Scalp In Efforts To Cut Government and Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1120,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled-design-7-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=428,height=241,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled-design-7-2.jpg 430w, https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=788,height=444,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled-design-7-2.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 430px, 100vw\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit score: Screenshot: Elon Musk X<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p>DOGE \u2013 President Trump\u2019s Division of Authorities Effectivity \u2013 is off to a red-hot begin. <\/p>\n<p>The pseudo-department (it\u2019s not an actual authorities company\u2026 but) led by Elon Musk has a number of targets in its mission: Minimize authorities spending, cut back pink tape and paperwork, and abolish unhelpful and even detrimental packages. <\/p>\n<p>Working example: the Chief Range Officers Govt Council within the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM). <\/p>\n<p>First it was there. Now, it\u2019s gone. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Sadly the positioning continues to be lively, however that\u2019s as a result of the feds have 60 days to get Trump\u2019s order finished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/president-trump-unleashes-a-flurry-of-promised-executive-orders\/\">Promises Made, Promises Kept: Most Important Executive Orders Signed By Trump on Day One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-elon-starts-slashing\">Elon Begins Slashing<\/h2>\n<p>The OPM is the company that handles human sources, payroll, and the like for the over two million federal staff.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the Chief Range Officers Govt Council on the OPM? I\u2019m glad you requested. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/policy-data-oversight\/chief-diversity-officers-executive-council\/\">They describe their mission<\/a> as \u201cthe principal interagency discussion board to implement and maintain a nationwide technique for DEIA throughout the Federal authorities and place the Federal authorities as a mannequin for the DEIA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What does that imply? First, the DEI acronym was expanded to incorporate \u201caccessibility.\u201d As in, Range, Fairness, Inclusion, and Accessibility. <\/p>\n<p>As for what they do, right here\u2019s the official description: \u201cThe Council will advise companies and their senior leaders on promising practices in DEIA and promote these practices as necessary to company strategic plans, missions, and operations; coordinate actions of its member companies on government-wide coverage implementation and partnerships; help with setting clear methods, benchmarks, and metrics for DEIA requirements of excellence and accountability throughout the Federal authorities; and promote an inclusive office tradition for all Federal staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In brief, like most if not all DEI packages, this one was meant to extend the variety of \u201cminority\u201d teams within the OPM. Within the pondering of the left, rising the variety of minority people and lowering the variety of majority \u2013 in our case right here in America, white \u2013 people is taken into account a <em>de facto<\/em> public good. Why that\u2019s the case isn&#8217;t clearly defined, however one will get the sense that it will be quite impolitic, even by the left\u2019s requirements, to obviously clarify their reasoning. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless, we received\u2019t have to fret about it for not less than 4 years. As a result of like <em>all<\/em> different federal company DEI packages, it\u2019s gone. <\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/trump-effect-gen-z-most-optimistic-about-trump-presidency\/\">Trump Effect: Gen-Z Most Optimistic About Trump Presidency<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-trump-cuts-dei\">Trump Cuts DEI <\/h2>\n<p>As a part of his marathon run at fixing as a lot of Biden\u2019s errors as doable on the primary day, President Trump rescinded Govt Order 13985. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing\/\">President Trump\u2019s order<\/a>, Ending Radical And Wasteful Authorities DEI Packages And Preferencing, ends \u201cunlawful and immoral\u201d discrimination packages like DEI. The Funds Director, OPM Director, and Legal professional Basic are ordered to finish the packages and all associated \u201cactions\u201d within the federal authorities inside 60 days. <\/p>\n<p>As a part of this effort, the Funds Director is accumulating a file of all such packages that existed underneath the Biden administration, which ought to make for very attention-grabbing studying. <\/p>\n<p>DOGE chief Musk has lengthy railed in opposition to such packages, one thing President Trump agrees with. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simply Day Two of us. We\u2019re off and working.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/doge-claims-first-scalp-in-efforts-to-cut-government-and-bureaucracy\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit score: Screenshot: Elon Musk X DOGE \u2013 President Trump\u2019s Division of Authorities Effectivity \u2013 is off to a red-hot begin. The pseudo-department (it\u2019s not an actual authorities company\u2026 but) led by Elon Musk has a number of targets in its mission: Minimize authorities spending, cut back pink tape and paperwork, and abolish unhelpful and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12001,451,1677,11742,5088,991,12000],"class_list":["post-16429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bureaucracy","tag-claims","tag-cut","tag-doge","tag-efforts","tag-government","tag-scalp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}