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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s all academic. Who cares if OMB “can” direct agencies to RIF when the agencies are all either led by flunkies who will RIF anyway or, if they don’t, will be fired and replaced with someone who will RIF?

This whole case is about a very inside baseball esoteric legal question without much practical effect — does OMB/OPM have the authority to DIRECT agencies to RIF? Who cares?

FYI — the answer may be different depending on whether the agency is “independent” or not. [/quote]

I thought this too.  If Trump says at a cabinet meeting "wow it would be great for each agency to cut 15%" you better believe these loser bootlicker would hop to it with maybe possibly Rubio as an exception.

I think the impoundment argument is more interesting.[/quote]

You may not agree with the policy; but those cabinet officials *work for Trump*, they are *supposed* to do what he says. If they can’t bring themselves to do it, they should resign in protest. But the idea that executive branch employees should “resist” Trump is profoundly anti-democratic. [/quote]

Cabinet secretaries have split loyalties and many cabinet secretaries see themselves as a possible future state governor, Vice President, Federal Reserve Chair, etc. and don't want their names and reputations ruined. At least one Cabinet Secretary thinks they are a possible future President. Those secretaries work for the President, but their agencies also have Congressionally-mandated missions which they will be held responsible for fulfilling. No Secretary of Labor wants to be called before Congress to explain why workplace injuries and fatalities have gone up by 20 percent, or why $1 billion allocated for job training wasn't spent on job training. 
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