Cabinet choices and transition plans

micheley you know what else is on that list? NOAA. Goodbye hurricane tracking and information.

Here's a link to download the entire list: www.cbo.gov/publication/59684

Yeah, that ought to work out well. Of course all the ‘super high IQ’ people they’re looking for will want to take on unpaid jobs when they could be making big bucks elsewhere. 🙄

How is all of this not treason?

I’m trying to be optimistic, but Trump isn’t even president and his choices for cabinet are not a good sign. I’m worried about the next 4 years but also about what Trump will do or try to do at the end of his term. So far, Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do. I’m so incredibly frustrated with people that just dismissed half of what he said. “Oh he won’t actually do that”. Yes he will and we tried to warn you

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/us/politics/trump-gaetz-gabbard-hegseth-deep-state.html

The choices of Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence in the past few days shocked a capital that perhaps should not have been all that surprised. Anyone who listened to Mr. Trump’s promises and grievances on the campaign trail over the past couple of years could have easily anticipated that he would elevate compatriots willing to execute his hostile takeover of government.

But the Justice Department, Pentagon and intelligence agencies were the three areas of government that proved to be the most stubborn obstacles to Mr. Trump’s previous efforts to legitimize his presidency and overturn his defeat in 2020 to hold on to power.

Compare those three to the appointees Mr. Trump installed in those same posts when he first came to office in 2017: Jeff Sessions, a Republican senator and former judge, as attorney general; Jim Mattis, a retired Marine four-star general, as defense secretary; and Dan Coats, a longtime Republican senator from Indiana and ambassador to Germany, as director of national intelligence.

Mr. Trump learned from those experiences. When he first arrived at the White House, he had not spent a single day in public office and therefore often relied on people he did not know well. He returns eight years later with a much better understanding of how power works in the White House and a better sense of whom to trust.

In the process, according to Ms. Troye, he is citing the supposed weaponization of government by the Democrats to turn it around on his adversaries. “It’s almost projection because he does exactly what he accuses these people of doing,” she said. “It’s the politicization of these communities.”

And Kash Patel is being considered to lead the FBI.