Don Beyer: Schedule F order is a recipe for corruption that will make the country less safe
Donald Trump’s Schedule F order politicizing the federal workforce is a recipe for corruption that would make the country less safe.
Donald Trump’s Schedule F order politicizing the federal workforce is a recipe for corruption that would make the country less safe.
Donald Trump is threatening the whole world with tariffs now, so that he can give his rich buddies another tax break. You’ll pay more for everything, but that’s OK – that’s what you voted for, and he told you ahead of time he was going to do this.

President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, came under fire during his nominee hearing today in the U.S. Senate.
Donald Trump is, for a second time, trying to revive the political spoils system, this time with a new Schedule F executive order in which he is attempting to reclassify tens of thousands of federal employees as political hires.
After approximately 12 hours of darkness in the U.S., TikTok returned Sunday, and parent company ByteDance credited Donald Trump for its return after he promised an executive order to stall the American ban on the social media app.
TikTok ended its hours-long political stunt on Sunday, with the Chinese company’s owner, ByteDance, making itself available to U.S. users again, after voluntarily taking the app down late Saturday night.
A Harrisonburg man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $2,000 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

A Southwest Virginia man now faces charges similar to his brother for their actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, of Virginia spoke out Friday on the TikTok court case.
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs.
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