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Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change (businessinsider.com)
The Department of Energy said Tuesday it will reject the request by President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to name staffers who worked on climate change programs. Energy spokesman Eben Burnhan-Snyder said the agency received "significant feedback" from workers regarding a questionnaire from the transition team that leaked last week. From a Reuters story, syndicated on BusinessInsider: The response from the Energy Department could signal a rocky transition for the president-elect's energy team and potential friction between the new leadership and the staffers who remain in place. The memo sent to the Energy Department on Tuesday and reviewed by Reuters last week contains 74 questions including a request for a list of all department employees and contractors who attended the annual global climate talks hosted by the United Nations within the last five years. "Our career workforce, including our contractors and employees at our labs, comprise the backbone of (the Energy Department) and the important work our department does to benefit the American people," Eben Burnham-Snyder, Energy Department spokesman said. "We are going to respect the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees at our labs and across our department," he added. "We will be forthcoming with all publicly available information with the transition team. We will not be providing any individual names to the transition team."
This is what draining the swamp looks like. It's finding out who the cultists are and removing the hopelessly devout from roles where they influence anything, especially who gets government money simply because they are in the same cult.
If you call it a witch-hunt you are not far wrong, except in this case there really are plenty of wishes to find and dispose of.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Standard low-IQ response from a leftist.
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
You can ignore reality, but you can not ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Snowflakes like you will learn this soon. Trump will teach you.
Look, man. IT'S SETTLED. Remember?
Don't make them start enforcing the fact that it's settled at the end of an M-16.
Trump might actually submit a budget to the congress (as Obama has never done), and in this budget the funding for the DoE would be cut 75%. It's an executive agency, after all.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
After folks finish digging up the dirt on this Russian hacking fiasco
Still clinging to that one, are we? Is that all you all have left?
we can only hope he reduces the size of government, starting with those that fabricate data to direct policy for our country.
Donald Turnip is a fucking asshole, and so is everybody that voted for the asshole.
Trump is the one burning our government to the ground
Really? How has he done this? What parts of the government are now burned to the ground? Be specific.
But from day one, these fuckers have declared war.
Really? Actual war? War on who? Be specific instead of waving your hands around, hyperventilating, and being deliberately vague in hopes nobody will call you on it.
One look at the proposed cabinet shows that 100% - these people were not selected for expertise, they were selected because they have deep-seated antipathy and aggression towards the very government agencies they're supposed to oversee.
Be specific, with examples. For example, how does the designated Secretary of Defense exhibit "deep seated antipathy" towards the military? Specifically. How does the designated Secretary of State exhibit "deep seated antipathy" towards the State Department? Specifically. Since you're making sweeping statements about the entire cabinet, you must have lots of examples of the history of "aggression" you have in mind, and explanations about why each new designee's ideas about their prospective department is based on antipathy and wanting to "burn it to the ground." So, yes, specific examples, please - at least one for each new cabinet members, since you're talking about all of them.
There is no "working with" someone who has publicly declared themselves your enemy.
Which designated cabinet secretary has publicly declared their prospective department to be their enemy? For each one, provide the name and public declaration in which they said the department was their enemy.
I'd thank you in advance for the work you'll have to do, but because you obviously have all of this information at your fingertips so you could come to such specific conclusions about the entire cabinet, I'm sure you'll have it all ready to copy and paste. Let me guess, it will all be links to HuffPo and NYT opinion pieces, right? Yeah.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.