The federal week in review:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

octoswan:

vortexsophia:

1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day.

2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an
individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee’s salary
to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of
legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people
in Energy and State.

3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books
those hearings with Trump’s first press conference in months and an ACA
budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or
protest.

4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget
Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the
ACA.

5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under
the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that
the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.

6. Trump
breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by
asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it.

7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.

8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules
enacted by any federal agency or department–for example, FDA or EPA
bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not
science. Don’t like that endangered species designation, Congress kills
it.

We – progressive, liberal, libertarian and conservative – need
to all wake up to what is actually happening to our beloved country.
 

9. As of Jan 9, Trump has fired the NNSA nuclear safety overseers of our nuclear arsenal, leaving it unclear whether he intends to replace them. This is unprecedented because previous Presidents have always had a replacement ready beforehand.  source / source / source 

If only countless COUNTLESS people on every side of the political
spectrum had spent months constantly warning you people what a fucking
disaster a Trump presidency would be

oh wait