The ousted head of human resources at the IRS, Traci DiMartini, is vowing to fight back after she says she was fired for telling IRS employees that agency firings came from the DOGE-controlled Office of Personnel Management.
DiMartini was placed on leave Monday for alleged “ineffective management” of the Trump administration’s mass federal employee purge, as well as “insubordination” toward the Department of Government Efficiency. She says she was fired not only for telling IRS staff where firings were coming from but also because she refused to call employees into the office over the weekend to onboard a DOGE staffer after they were putting in “60–70 hour” workweeks in the midst of tax season.
“They’re trying to politicize human capital,” DiMartini told Government Executive. “They want to be able to hire only loyalists, ignore Title 5 [of the U.S. Code] and commit flagrant prohibited personnel practices. When you look at the Merit Systems Protections Board and what the civil protections are, we’re supposed to have a nonpartisan civil service, and we have been completely whipsawed.”
To be fair, DOGE is ran by pretty incompetent people.
DOGE only looks incompetent if you’re so naive to believe that its goals are what it claims them to be.
If you understand that its actual goals are to sow chaos and destroy the effectiveness of the government, inflicting “trauma” on long-time civil servants while installing MAGA sycophants and acting quickly to “flood the zone” to circumvent the courts trying to sanction it, it’s doing a pretty expert job.
Stop. Underestimating. The. Enemy.
Both can be true.
No, they both really can’t.
Why do you want people to not take the threat seriously?
They’re attempting to speed run a power grab and shrinking the government at the same time. Obviously, this is what Putin wants but what do the rest gain by destroying a system they benefited from? Do you see how silly that is? A monarchy would never do that so dumb.
Look at the news. They’re not just shrinking what they can control. They’re gutting infrastructure. They’re literately shrinking anything remotely federal.
How many federal cops have they fired?
Soldiers?
Just a smattering of leadership?
They don’t care about the environment. They definitely don’t care about union representation. They don’t care about food safety, or any other kind of safety.
They care about power and money they can loot.
All I’m arguing is both can be true. That’s it. Sorry for trying to add a little nuance.
“Shrinking” is buying into their dishonest framing of the situation. Don’t do that. What they’re doing is purging, not “shrinking.”
FFS, I’m only human. I can’t make all of you damn happy.