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We’ll, I did hear Emperor Napoleorange likes it when people leak

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But that would be a logical explanation for the decision to slap a gag order on certain government agencies.

Multiple federal agencies have told their employees to cease communications with members of Congress and the press, sources have told The Huffington Post.

The freeze has startled aides on the Hill and people at those agencies, who worry that it could abruptly upend current operations and stifle work and discussions that routinely take place between branches of government.

Officials at sub-agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, for example, have been told not to send “any correspondence to public officials” according to a memo shared with HuffPost. Instead, they have been asked to refer questions to agency leadership until the leadership has had time to meet with incoming White House staff about the new administration’s policies and objectives, according to a congressional official who was also informed of the communications freeze.

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As for the communications freeze, sources on Capitol Hill said they are worried about the timing of the directive. Lawmakers routinely help constituents to interface with federal agencies, especially those that fall under the HHS umbrella. If officials who deal with Medicare and Medicaid policies aren’t allowed to talk to members of Congress, one Hill aide noted, it will be impossible to address constituent concerns with those programs.

It’s just another example of Trump’s mismanagement style, which commenter ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders described with pin-point precision yesterday:

…he’s perfectly happy to leave the boring shit to everybody else while making slapdash, scattershot zero-information decisions whenever he feels like it. That’s why his companies failed–when he’s bored he does nothing at all but when he thinks it’s fun to make decisions he damn well makes them, and they’re ruinous.

Right. It’s very easy to imagine Trump barking out two-thirds of an order to make sure agencies don’t say anything about anything to anyone before he got distracted and started moaning about inauguration attendance and the mean old press again.

Everyone else has to figure out what the hell he means and confusion and inconvenience and harm will spread. If enough people complain loudly enough, Trump will respond by blaming the mean old press. In the meantime, he’ll have perpetrated a dozen more fuckups and then it will be week 2 of his administration.

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