Trump to sign EO "Reorganizing the Executive Branch" today - sounds like budget/workforce slashing

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur yesterday:

Link to tweet

On @POTUS's schedule tomorrow: THE PRESIDENT signs an Executive Order entitled “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch”

Saw lots of tweets from people wondering WTH that was supposed to be, with some speculating it means a purge.

Maybe that and more.

From Sean Spicer this morning:

Link to tweet

.@POTUS to sign exec order today that requires thorough exam of every exec dept & agency to see where money can be saved & services improved

You can bet Bannon wrote this EO as part of his plan to "deconstruct the administrative state" AKA destroy the government.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Repub lexicon...."improved" "slashed"...nt

[DK504]

2. Exactly.

WTF does this mean? Is he stealing responsibilities from the other 2 branches? Even reukes should be afraid.

[dalton99a]

3. Emptying out federal buildings so he can buy them at fire-sale prices

[Tanuki]

4. I'll help....you can save more than $20 billion by scrapping plans for that stupid fucking wall,

and hundreds of millions more by skipping your weekend junkets to Mar-a-Loser and having your current wife and youngest known kid live in the White House or pay out of your own damn pocket if you prefer that they be ensconced elsewhere. Your complicated, quasi-polygamous domestic arrangements should not impose financial hardship on the nation's resources.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Yes, Bannon and Putin want our government all but gone.

It is going to be destroyed and quickly.

[PearliePoo2]

6. "where money can be saved & services improved"

Blotus...a hypocritical, traitorous gasbag.
1.Where's the rolling, scrolling money count of what it costs for keeping the 3rd lady and young son in their golden, gilded New York tower?
2. All the money it costs to go to the Southern White House nearly every weekend.
3. Secret Service costs to protect Beavis and Butthead while they globetrot on Trump money-making schemes.

What a disgusting, phony p.o.s.

[highplainsdem]

9. Agree. They should slash the money wasted on Trump's family and vacations.

[bunnies]

7. Obama signed 19 EOs his first 100 days. 45* is already well over 30.

Where's the outrage from the right? *hypocritical crickets*

[3catwoman3]

8. Executive orders were such an abomination...

...when President Obama used them.

It irritates the hell out of me when he displays them after each signing, like a toddler bringing home his finger painting from daycare. "Look, Mommy, look what I did today."

[bunnies]

12. I wonder if Bannon has one of those calendars parents have for kids.

Where Donny gets gold stars every time he's a good boy. "Now hold it up for the camera!" "Gold star!!"

The lot of them make me sick.

[MedusaX]

10. Consolidation of Power.....

I wrote the following as a funny- ha ha we are so f*cked post on Wonkette on Jan. 26.....

Well today is the day I guess...

Donnie is like a really smart guy, right? I mean just ask him...
He will tell you that Nobody, and He means Nobody, knows how to do bid-ness as good as Donnie does...

Now even though the dishonest media will blow this all out of proportion and say that Donnie might be trying to change the role of the state department and does not want any of those experienced, knowledgeable, senior staff members trying to brain wash T-Rex into believing that he's supposed to be even remotely concerned about warm fuzzy humanitarian nonsense......

This was just Donnie doing what's best for America... because Donnie has a big heart, an unbelievably yoooooge gold plated heart... that actually proves that he is like a total philanthropist...

Cuz the DJT Scam-dation paid tens -- maybe hundreds.. definitely it was hundreds-- of thousands of dollars for it at a charity event ... all the big donors are still talking about it

Any really smart person knows that 15 separate departments is like sooooo stupid, Donnie is sooo right, right?

So this was just like a really extraordinarily smart bid-ness move... because now every thing is going to be so bigly big league streamlined and efficient, every one will be amazed and be like "oh how did you do it? You are like the smartest president ever"

So very -- very soon, like any day now, Donnie will autograph an Executive Order to get rid of all those stupid individual money wasting departments and order that they be replaced with... this is like the very bestest idea ever-- an unbelievably smart way to handle stuff... it will be amazing..

Just 2 departments... two... not 15.. not 10...but 2...only 2...
* Domestic Exploitation & Intimidation (America First!)
* Global Exploitation & Intimidation

It will be great... unbelievably great

[ananda]

11. Soon it will be all military all the time!

With no government whatsoever for the society at large.