After the inauguration of Donald Trump, some at the EPA were reportedly in tears, and the agency has even gone so far as to provide therapy for their Trump depression. Now there’s a renewed “sense of dread” at the EPA (and elsewhere for that matter) as federal bureaucrats try and decide what to do, up to and including dragging their heels:
Civil servants at EPA threaten to "slow-walk" or even ignore orders if Pruitt "abandon[s] EPA's role in the world" https://t.co/kMMgAs2LqO pic.twitter.com/Cm4Ym85jhe
— Josh Blackman (@JoshMBlackman) February 11, 2017
I suspect this move will backfire and lead to the weakening of civil service protections if employees become partisan and insubordinate https://t.co/JM1t7myvwy
— Josh Blackman (@JoshMBlackman) February 11, 2017
So what’s next?
Mutiny against democracy. https://t.co/hhhwEwxmY3
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 11, 2017
Stay tuned:
Something tells me the "it wasn't like this under W" comment is serious revisionism https://t.co/IgsLB41CEH
— Winston Coolidge (@winstoncoolidge) February 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/830498724245815297
https://twitter.com/Voltaires_Crack/status/830499948261019648
Taxpayers should "slow-walk" the IRS and see how that turns out. https://t.co/BoQZmSzmAs
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) February 11, 2017
Yeah, good luck with that!
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