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4 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Under his eye.

May the lord open

(I use these lines when someone wishes me a blessed day...  yeah, I know, I'm an asshole)

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33 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

well glad to see someone is at least trying to do something finally besides sternly worded letters and pithy tweets. 

15 minutes ago, The Dog said:

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lol

oh i hope maybe one of Anon secretly works for Elon lol

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27 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Rubio says he’s acting director of USAID as humanitarian agency is taken over by the State Department

Little Marco takes over USAID: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/usaid-washington-workers/index.html

Um, well see, um, yeah.... He already was. State has a lot of bureaus and agencies within it. Non-proliferation, human rights, propaganda, I mean public affairs, and yes, DEVELOPMENT. State runs Foreign Military sales, not DOD.

USAID kind of is a part of State. There is not Secretary of international Development. The Agency Director works with the Sec of State. It is not an independent group. That is why its budget is tied closely. A lot of USAID's overseas management budget is tiny. One reason, It is within the State budget. The Country Director reports to the Ambassador, etc.

The cost is going to be large for this transformation. New systems, emails, etc. And yes, new leadership.

 

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7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Um, well see, um, yeah.... He already was. State has a lot of bureaus and agencies within it. Non-proliferation, human rights, propaganda, I mean public affairs, and yes, DEVELOPMENT. State runs Foreign Military sales, not DOD.

USAID kind of is a part of State. There is not Secretary of international Development. The Agency Director works with the Sec of State. It is not an independent group. That is why its budget is tied closely. A lot of USAID's overseas management budget is tiny. One reason, It is within the State budget. The Country Director reports to the Ambassador, etc.

The cost is going to be large for this transformation. New systems, emails, etc. And yes, new leadership.

 

Actually I think USAID is an independent agency at least in terms that they don't (didn't) have a cabinet secretary that they reported to. They most likely worked closely with State and the NSC, but they didn't officially report to them. 

 

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2 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok

https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/trump-signs-executive-order-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-03/

Percentage chances that if something like this is created, it will be used primarily to 1) enrich Trump allies who will earn huge sums serving as its "managers," and 2) enrich Trump allies who will be the beneficiaries of much of its spending?

I remember the old stories of the Mexican highway department, many decades ago, spending $5 million building a fantastic new road....that went to only one place, the Mexican president's large and remote ranch.  That is exactly the kind of thing this sort of slush fund would be used for.

Drain the swamp my ass.

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2 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok

https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/trump-signs-executive-order-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-03/

he needs an act of Congress for this- there is a whole popular musical about it and everything. he can’t appropriate taxpayer dollars into a slush fund by decree. Honestly the press is failing at showing the weaknesses of attempting to govern by lawless EOs and doing little more than repeating verbatim the press releases from the White House 

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11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The water released literally did not and does not flow to Southern California....where LA is actually located.  He's a psychopathic lying madman.

There is literally no functional hydrological connection between the Tulare lake bed and L.A.

He's a fucking psychotic idiot.  Seriously, @realgreggym, please tell us how this is the "grown-up" thing to do -- order the release of water hundreds of miles away, not connected to the L.A. area at all, AFTER the fires are largely under control anyway, makes ANY fucking sense.  It's an idiotic stunt, meant to please idiots.

Midland needs water, so let's drain Lake Brownwood.

Sure, that checks out 100%.

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8 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

How do you fund a wealth fund if you are $36 trillion in debt?

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“I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me,” Trump told Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired on “CBS This Morning.” 

We elected this.  We elected the greatest businessman of all time.....who has ended up in bankruptcy a jillion times.

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11 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

How do you fund a wealth fund if you are $36 trillion in debt?

 

 

Administration officials did not say how the fund would operate or be financed, but Trump has previously said it could be funded by "tariffs and other intelligent things."
 

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14 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

How do you fund a wealth fund if you are $36 trillion in debt?

 

 

Invest it all in Tesla and we will pay off that 36 trillion in no time!

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25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The water released literally did not and does not flow to Southern California....where LA is actually located.  He's a psychopathic lying madman.

Easily corrected with a sharpie!

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Just now, The Dog said:

translation: it's a front to launder money for him.

Well most sovereign wealth funds are used for corrupt purposes.

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56 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Actually I think USAID is an independent agency at least in terms that they don't (didn't) have a cabinet secretary that they reported to. They most likely worked closely with State and the NSC, but they didn't officially report to them. 

 

Independent? Defined via congress yes. Activity? No. And there is a lot of overlap with state where they fight for influence and budget. They sit at the table but don't really have a vote.

And the active personnel, quite few, do report to the Embassy and fall under its country structure.

Real impact? The same implementing partners (AKA contractors) will change their proposals.

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11 hours ago, randomhorn said:

One party holds the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court and you’re “both partying”? What do you think the Democrat’s options are here? Unless you get a Republican to step up this country’s cooked.

My point was up until today, the Democrats have been strangely quiet. Today Democrats are on the ground at agencies holding press conferences.. a little late but needed. And due to the egregious acts of Elon and his team, obvious security risks, illegal acts, etc., one would think some Republicans would be just as frightened about what is happening and speak up as well. Federal employees, non-partisan, members of both parties.... are outraged and sounding the alarm at what is happening.

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22 minutes ago, The Dog said:

translation: it's a front to launder money for him.

Anything he creates that involves money is being created to benefit him monetarily. The name he gives it or whatever he says it does is irrelevant. It’s a grift and this is easily recognizable to anyone not in the death cult. To the death cult though this sounds like a brilliant idea from their god king. 

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8 minutes ago, DreadHead said:

My point was up until today, the Democrats have been strangely quiet. Today Democrats are on the ground at agencies holding press conferences.. a little late but needed. And due to the egregious acts of Elon and his team, obvious security risks, illegal acts, etc., one would think some Republicans would be just as frightened about what is happening and speak up as well. Federal employees, non-partisan, members of both parties.... are outraged and sounding the alarm at what is happening.

They haven't really had to - the OMB memo and tariffs caused so much tangible damage (and quickly) that people started calling their reps immediately. They didn't need the Democrats encouraging them since the backlash was so swift and intense.

 

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17 minutes ago, DreadHead said:

My point was up until today, the Democrats have been strangely quiet. Today Democrats are on the ground at agencies holding press conferences.. a little late but needed. And due to the egregious acts of Elon and his team, obvious security risks, illegal acts, etc., one would think some Republicans would be just as frightened about what is happening and speak up as well. Federal employees, non-partisan, members of both parties.... are outraged and sounding the alarm at what is happening.

The alarm, while the right thing to do, will change nothing right now or anytime soon. The alarm should have been his election in 2016, not that he got his old grift back 8 years later and has now got a whole cadre of racist morons and grifters joining him for the sequel.

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58 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The water released literally did not and does not flow to Southern California....where LA is actually located.  He's a psychopathic lying madman.

There is literally no functional hydrological connection between the Tulare lake bed and L.A.

He's a fucking psychotic idiot.  Seriously, @realgreggym, please tell us how this is the "grown-up" thing to do -- order the release of water hundreds of miles away, not connected to the L.A. area at all, AFTER the fires are largely under control anyway, makes ANY fucking sense.  It's an idiotic stunt, meant to please idiots.

Don’t make him breakout the sharpie! 

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55 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

How do you fund a wealth fund if you are $36 trillion in debt?

 

 

How soon before the orange turd issues a EO to the treasury to print a 36 trillion dollar bill and pay off the debt?  I could see him doing it on his way out so he can “claim credit”.  The ensuing chaos will be the dems fault anyway.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok

https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/trump-signs-executive-order-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-03/

The Saudis have a sovereign wealth fund that they used to invest $2 Billion in Jared Kushner’s startup private equity venture. Donald Trump wants one too and plans to use it in equally shady ways. 

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2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The Saudis have a sovereign wealth fund that they used to invest $2 Billion in Jared Kushner’s startup private equity venture. Donald Trump wants one too and plans to use it in equally shady ways. 

All the cool dudes have one. Saudis, China (good to buy up foreclosed US farmland), those damn canucks.

Countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_wealth_funds_by_country

Oh, but so do US States. Including... Texas. And those commies in Oregon.

Texas. Of course, that is the University fund. PUF for us idiots. Yes, we share it with aggy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_University_Fund
 

I think Cali got out of theirs when they realized they were complicit with suspected Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing by the government of Sudan.

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2 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

Trump will use it to try to buy an NFL team so he can finally say he is an NFL owner.  and if that fails, he can buy a Premier League team acquire  a Canadian NHL team as spoils of war.

FIFY.

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I got a fresh wind recently as regards the need to resist all that we see happening around us. Filter out the religious piece of this if you must, but I learned about Augustus Landmesser and the ability of love to empower in yesterday’s sermon. Augustus was a Nazi, who over time began to understand the evils of Hitler’s regime. Once he fell in love with  a Jewish woman, he found his strength to love so empowering, he was able to resist evil, when standing in the midst of it. (SEE PHOTO IN LINKED ARTICLE)  As one might guess, the message that love can/should animate and empower us, is what one might expect to hear in church, it has application even outside of sacred spaces. Love of this country’s ideals should move us to fight this hostile takeover with everything at our disposal.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-lone-german-man-who-refused-to-give-hitler-the-nazi-salute-2015-6

 

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Europe Politics

Putin says Europe will ‘stand at the feet of the master’ as Trump’s tariffs alarm allies

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/putin-says-europe-will-stand-at-feet-of-master-as-trump-imposes-tariffs.html

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Russia’s Vladimir Putin warned Europe will quickly “stand at the feet of the master” after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, provoking a global markets meltdown and alarm among European allies.

Following Trump’s decision at the weekend to impose trade duties on America’s closest trading partners, Russian President Putin said Sunday that Trump’s second administration would “restore order” in Europe.

“I assure you: Trump, with his character, with his persistence, he will restore order there quite quickly. And all of them, you will see — it will happen quickly, soon — they will all stand at the feet of the master and will wag their tails a little. Everything will fall into place,” Putin told pro-Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin, who presents the primetime “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” program on the Rossiya-1 state TV channel. The comments were reported by state news agency RIA Novosti and translated by Google.

Putin did not give any further explanation as to how Trump could “restore order” — and it’s uncertain what he was referring to with his comments — but Moscow has expressed hopes that its own relationship with the U.S. could improve under Trump.

The Kremlin on Monday said it was watching on as “tensions” build between the U.S. and its allies.

“You know, there are many tensions there, so, of course, we have no desire to be associated with all this in any way or to evaluate it in any way,” Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in his daily press briefing.

“Let those countries that are participating in this process sort it out,” he said, according to comments reported by RIA Novosti, and translated by Reuters.

Trump sent global markets into a tailspin Monday after he announced a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada and a 10% levy on goods from China. The tariffs are set to come into effect Tuesday.

The president said tariffs on the European Union could follow “pretty soon,” but said there could be a deal with the U.K. which, unlike the U.S.′ other largest trading partners, has a more balanced trading relationship with its trans-Atlantic ally.

Officials from the EU have previously suggested that the bloc could respond to U.S. tariffs “in a proportionate way,” with the European Commission on Sunday stating that it would “respond firmly” to any U.S. duties.

While under the enormous weight of international sanctions due to its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia stands to benefit from U.S. tariffs on its trading partners as they are likely to suffer a steep economic hit.

The tariffs also sow disarray among erstwhile allies — partners who, like the U.S. under former President Joe Biden, have looked to weaken Russia’s leadership and economy with punitive measures designed to stymy Moscow’s economic and geopolitical power.

Moscow hopes for a more favorable relationship with Washington now that Trump is back in power, given that he and Putin have had cordial relations in the past, with both leaders expressing admiration for each other, previously.

Putin: European leaders lack conviction

The U.S.′ allies in Europe fear the president will stop U.S. military funding for Ukraine and could push Kyiv into peace talks to end the war, which is approaching its third anniversary. Putin said last month that he hoped he and Trump could meet soon to discuss the war and energy prices.

Ukraine warns that it could be pushed into a “bad” peace deal in which it’s forced to concede territory to Russia, and that Moscow will regroup before targeting it again in the future.

European leaders are expected to discuss the impending threat of U.S. tariffs when they meet in Brussels on Monday although, ostensibly, the key theme of the meeting is strengthening their defense strategy.

Trump has already warned European leaders that they need to be responsible for their own security, lambasting NATO allies for not meeting defense spend commitments and saying last month that he could ask them to spend even more on defense.

If Trump pulls U.S. funding for Ukraine, Europe will have to confront a decision whether to shoulder the financial burden of Ukraine alone. A number of leaders — particularly those in Eastern Europe who are seen to be on friendlier terms with the Kremlin — are already skeptical of more sanctions on Russia and funding for Ukraine.

Criticizing his European counterparts on Sunday, Putin said European leaders on the Continent lacked conviction in their beliefs.

Praising former European leaders such as France’s Charles De Gaulle, Jacques Chirac and Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder, Putin said such leaders “had their own opinion and the courage to fight for this opinion, to express it, to talk about it and to try to at least implement it in practical work.”

“Today, there are practically no such people there,” Putin said, RIA Novosti reported.

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E.P.A. Tells More Than 1,000 They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.

An email, reviewed by The New York Times, was sent to staff members who were hired within the past year and have probationary status. Many of those employees were encouraged to join the E.P.A. under the Biden administration to rebuild the agency, which had been depleted during President Trump’s first term. Others are experienced federal workers who had taken new assignments within the agency.

Many had been hired to work on programs that Congress created through two recent laws, doing things like helping communities replace lead pipes, remediating toxic sites and funding clean energy projects aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet.

“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you,” the email states.

Molly Vaseliou, an E.P.A. spokeswoman, said in a statement that “our goal is to be transparent.” She declined to answer questions about the email, though, including whether Lee Zeldin, the agency’s new administrator, intended to terminate employees and, if so, for what reason.

“On his first day in office, he engaged directly with career staff across E.P.A.’s headquarters — spanning two city blocks in downtown D.C. — listening to their insights and perspectives,” Ms. Vaseliou said. “Ultimately, the goal is to create a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans.”

At 9:21 a.m. on Monday, E.P.A. employees received another email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs.

The email from E.P.A.’s Office of Mission Support reads “Access to work.epa.gov is current unavailable” and that technical specialists were working to resolve the issue. It was not immediately clear if the outage was related to efforts to reduce the work force.

Asked about the email, Ms. Vaseliou said “There was an outage.”

Other federal agencies have been directed by the Office of Personnel Management to submit lists of probationary employees, but E.P.A. workers appear to be the first to receive notice that they may be immediately dismissed.

Leaders at the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents unionized E.P.A. employees, called the move a clear attempt to gut an agency that Mr. Trump dislikes. Through the E.P.A., the Biden administration developed aggressive regulations to curb planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil and gas wells.

“E.P.A. is at the center of the bullseye for President Trump’s vindictive purge of public servants,” said Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, a group of agency alumni.

She called it “the most chaotic and vindictive transition in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

Two E.P.A. employees who received the email said it had caused them to rethink the Trump administration’s offer to federal employees to resign but be paid through the end of September. The employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are concerned about being fired, said they had initially dismissed that offer as untrustworthy.

Being informed that their jobs are particularly precarious has caused them to rethink their options, both said.

Probationary employees are considered easier to fire because they do not have the full range of civil service protections, but rules still exist, said Marie Owens-Powell, president of the federation of government employees union, which represents about 8,000 E.P.A. workers.

“There has to be cause, and the cause can’t be because you’re a Democrat and it’s a Republican administration,” Ms. Owens-Powell said. The union is consulting lawyers about whether the administration can fire workers based on a simple declaration of a change in agency priorities, she said.

Ms. Owens-Powell said the Trump administration had placed about 15 E.P.A. employees who were working on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on administrative leave. She said the next likely targets are those working on environmental justice, or programs to help marginalized communities that suffer from disproportionate amounts of air and water pollution.

Staffing at the E.P.A. peaked in 2004 during the George W. Bush administration, when there were 17,611 employees, according to the agency. Those levels ebbed and flowed slightly, but began to take a sharp dip during the Obama administration amid Republican control of the House and Senate.

When Mr. Trump entered the White House in 2017, the E.P.A. had 15,408 employees. The following year that number dropped to 14,172 as political appointees reversed regulations, shut scientists out of decision-making and shrank the agency’s budget.

The Biden administration sought to reverse those losses. The agency currently employs about 15,130 people around the country, a level slightly higher than when Ronald Reagan was president.

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8 minutes ago, Satchel said:

I got a fresh wind recently as regards the need to resist all that we see happening around us. Filter out the religious piece of this if you must, but I learned about Augustus Landmesser and the ability of love to empower in yesterday’s sermon. Augustus was a Nazi, who over time began to understand the evils of Hitler’s regime. Once he fell in love with  a Jewish woman, he found his strength to love so empowering, he was able to resist evil, when standing in the midst of it. (SEE PHOTO IN LINKED ARTICLE)  As one might guess, the message that love can/should animate and empower us, is what one might expect to hear in church, it has application even outside of sacred spaces. Love of this country’s ideals should move us to fight this hostile takeover with everything at our disposal.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-lone-german-man-who-refused-to-give-hitler-the-nazi-salute-2015-6

 

August Landmesser (German: [ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst ˈlantˌmɛsɐ]; 24 May 1910 – 17 October 1944) is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.[2][3] Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. For this, he was imprisoned and eventually drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action.[citation needed]

Is this what the other side is counting on? That people won't fight becuase they know they're going to die, or be hurt, and that's not what Americans are about these days. Did your pastor mentioned what happened to August in his sermon? 

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State taking over USAID via Liltle Marco as the temporary leader of USAID may be the best option. If USAID was out there by itself, Elon would have worked to crush it since he was the only person talking to Trump about it. Marco might be able to convince Trump to keep it. Remember, the last person to speak to Trump usually wins.  But that also means that Elon will be at the WH or talking to Trump every night.

As for the EPA note...

6 minutes ago, bolverk said:

E.P.A. Tells More Than 1,000 They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.

An email, reviewed by The New York Times, was sent to staff members who were hired within the past year and have probationary status. Many of those employees were encouraged to join the E.P.A. under the Biden administration to rebuild the agency, which had been depleted during President Trump’s first term. Others are experienced federal workers who had taken new assignments within the agency.

Many had been hired to work on programs that Congress created through two recent laws, doing things like helping communities replace lead pipes, remediating toxic sites and funding clean energy projects aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet.

“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you,” the email states.

Molly Vaseliou, an E.P.A. spokeswoman, said in a statement that “our goal is to be transparent.” She declined to answer questions about the email, though, including whether Lee Zeldin, the agency’s new administrator, intended to terminate employees and, if so, for what reason.

“On his first day in office, he engaged directly with career staff across E.P.A.’s headquarters — spanning two city blocks in downtown D.C. — listening to their insights and perspectives,” Ms. Vaseliou said. “Ultimately, the goal is to create a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans.”

At 9:21 a.m. on Monday, E.P.A. employees received another email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs.

The email from E.P.A.’s Office of Mission Support reads “Access to work.epa.gov is current unavailable” and that technical specialists were working to resolve the issue. It was not immediately clear if the outage was related to efforts to reduce the work force.

Asked about the email, Ms. Vaseliou said “There was an outage.”

Other federal agencies have been directed by the Office of Personnel Management to submit lists of probationary employees, but E.P.A. workers appear to be the first to receive notice that they may be immediately dismissed.

Leaders at the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents unionized E.P.A. employees, called the move a clear attempt to gut an agency that Mr. Trump dislikes. Through the E.P.A., the Biden administration developed aggressive regulations to curb planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil and gas wells.

“E.P.A. is at the center of the bullseye for President Trump’s vindictive purge of public servants,” said Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, a group of agency alumni.

She called it “the most chaotic and vindictive transition in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

Two E.P.A. employees who received the email said it had caused them to rethink the Trump administration’s offer to federal employees to resign but be paid through the end of September. The employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are concerned about being fired, said they had initially dismissed that offer as untrustworthy.

Being informed that their jobs are particularly precarious has caused them to rethink their options, both said.

Probationary employees are considered easier to fire because they do not have the full range of civil service protections, but rules still exist, said Marie Owens-Powell, president of the federation of government employees union, which represents about 8,000 E.P.A. workers.

“There has to be cause, and the cause can’t be because you’re a Democrat and it’s a Republican administration,” Ms. Owens-Powell said. The union is consulting lawyers about whether the administration can fire workers based on a simple declaration of a change in agency priorities, she said.

Ms. Owens-Powell said the Trump administration had placed about 15 E.P.A. employees who were working on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on administrative leave. She said the next likely targets are those working on environmental justice, or programs to help marginalized communities that suffer from disproportionate amounts of air and water pollution.

Staffing at the E.P.A. peaked in 2004 during the George W. Bush administration, when there were 17,611 employees, according to the agency. Those levels ebbed and flowed slightly, but began to take a sharp dip during the Obama administration amid Republican control of the House and Senate.

When Mr. Trump entered the White House in 2017, the E.P.A. had 15,408 employees. The following year that number dropped to 14,172 as political appointees reversed regulations, shut scientists out of decision-making and shrank the agency’s budget.

The Biden administration sought to reverse those losses. The agency currently employs about 15,130 people around the country, a level slightly higher than when Ronald Reagan was president.

This is a fear tactic to convince EPA employees to take the buyout offer. Take 6 months paid or get fired next week. Seems like an easy choice but I would still hold out.

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7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Molly Vaseliou, an E.P.A. spokeswoman, said in a statement that “our goal is to be transparent.” She declined to answer questions about the email, though, including whether Lee Zeldin, the agency’s new administrator, intended to terminate employees and, if so, for what reason.

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