Memo to DOGE:
Fire all 8,222 Federal Senior Executive Service (SES) employees. Rehire if needed as Limited Term appointments only as defined under 5 U.S.C. 3132 (a)(5): limited term appointee means an individual appointed under a nonrenewable appointment for a term of 3 years or less to a SES positions the duties of which will expire at the end of such term. In 2024, the basic annual salary for SES members ranges from $180,000 to $246,200.
Fire all 93 federal district attorneys.
Fire all Ambassadors (they have to submit their resignations with each new administration, they serve “at the pleasure of the President”,) and all 7,999 Foreign Service officers, called “generalist” diplomats.
Fire all serving active-duty general and flag officers (GFOs) and impose a ten year moratorium on working for industry after retirement. Employ two phases: retire all flag officers with an odd number in their SSN in February 2025 and even numbered SSNs in March 2025. As of March 2024, the number of GFOs in the US Department of Defense (DoD) was 809. This was 48 fewer than the maximum of 857 authorized by law. Reduce the GFO authorization to 100 authorized by law immediately.
Relocate all 168 Foreign Embassies and 727 Consulates placed in the territory of United States to Greenland once it is acquired.
Consolidate all 271 bilateral posts (US embassies and consulates) in 173 countries to single centralized continental embassy pods (for instance, close all African embassies and locate a modest and single facility in one country on the continent that wants it).
Close the UN in New York and reflag it as Trump Tower. Relocate the 6500 NY UN personnel to Diego Garcia in Quonset huts or barges in the atoll.
Zero out all Federal subsidy to college educations and make the university itself and their endowments the first and only recourse for paying student loan debt when forgiveness is asked. All Federal employment of non-STEM college graduates is forbidden in the first ten years after graduation.
Zero out all Federal subsidy to K-12 and shutter the Department of Education.
Apply Horne v. Department of Agriculture, 569 U.S. 513 (2013) (“Horne I”); 576 U.S. 351 (2015) (“Horne II”) standards to all Federal asset forfeiture and seizure activities.
Hold every executive agency to the Chevron defeat pronouncements in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024).
Hack and slash the 441 agencies that cripple the liberty and economic freedom of Americans (see federalregister.gov/age…).
This is a good start.
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