Outside the Beltway

One of the great success stories of American governance—economic growth paired with environmental progress—has gone largely unnoticed.

The health agency has been gutted under RFK Jr.’s reign.

It turns out that goverment workers served a useful purpose after all.

We are observing an effort to embed democratically questionable sectarian norms into the day-to-day life of federal workplaces. 

For reasons.

Public misconceptions about federal waste invite tolerance for questionable workarounds to the constitutionally prescribed manner of determining appropriations.

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

Salting the earth and breaking the law.

A judge says OPM has no authority to fire workers in other agencies.

In the immortal words of Emily Litella, “Never mind.”

Beware the Ides of March.

The cruelty is indeed the point.

They’re leaving their dogs.

The people who safeguard our nuclear weapons and put out forest fires have been fired.

The inevitable happened, inevitably.

A Valentine’s Day massacre.

Just beyond parody at this point.

A brilliant plan with absolutely no conceivable downsides.

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

An evil genius controls the key levers of government.

The administration is compiling a list of every single agent who participated in the January 6 investigations.

The new administration is gutting the senior ranks of the civil service.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

Federal workers are afraid and in the dark.