Trump Isn't Messing Around

Via hte New York Post:

Mayor Eric Adams is ending his administration’s controversial program supplying migrants in city shelters with prepaid debit cards to pay for groceries.

The pilot program distributed the preloaded Mastercards to asylum seekers at hotels-turned-shelters, with a family of four receiving about $350 a week to cover the cost of groceries and baby supplies.

The city hired New Jersey-based tech startup Mobility Capital Finance in a $53 million, one-year “emergency” contract that drew backlash when the city failed to conduct a typical bidding process before picking the company.

But with the one year up shortly, the Adams administration decided against renewing the contract, ABC7 reported.

Accxording to this post on X, Adams's decision "reportedly" came after a phone call with Trump yesterday.

NEW: Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that NYC will no longer be issuing vouchers to illegal immigrants.

Remarkable. Trump gets elected and everyone falls in line.

The decision came one day after Adams reportedly had a phone call with Trump.

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 8, 2024

It sounds as though the New York program is at least a first cousin to the programs in Sprinmgfield, OH; Charleroi, PA; Aurora, CO; El Paso, TX; and elsewhere, whereby federal funds authorized by "emergency", "temporary" or "experimental" programs are routed through NGOs to for-profit companies and various other third parties that benefit from the illegals. All that's needed is to cut a single link in the chain for the whole scheme to fall apart.It sounds like Trump's people knmow what's going on, and we'll see more of this even before Trump resumes office.

According to Politico, federal employees are anticipating similar moves:

Federal employees throughout the executive branch are panicking at the thought of another Trump administration.

Former President Donald Trump has pledged to “demolish the deep state.” His running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, has said Trump ought to fire “every civil servant in the administrative state.” It’s not just campaign-trail bluster. In the waning days of his first administration, Trump sought to make it easier to fire federal employees — a move that was quickly reversed by the Biden administration.

In fact, this is item 1 on Trump's plan to dismantle the deep state:

Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the Deep State.

1. “Immediately reissue my 2020 executive order, restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats.”

2. “Clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 8, 2024

This applies especially to the FBI:

The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior executives who run the agency were “stunned” and “shell-shocked” by Mr. Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

“You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” the first FBI source said, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbate have little chance of remaining at the bureau by the time Mr. Trump is sworn into office, sources say.

. . . Others on the 7th floor of the FBI are so concerned about their own jobs that they are likely to flood the Washington, D.C., private security job market, sources say.

According to most of the sources, no one in the FBI at a GS-14 level or higher is safe from losing their job after Mr. Trump is sworn in, and they fully expect the president-elect to “smash the place to pieces when he gets in,” and that it will be a “bloodbath.”

Former FBI whistleblower George Hill told The Washington Times that people in the agency say the current state of the FBI is “frazzled.”

“I have friends still at the Bureau telling me that no less than 50 Senior Executives (SES) are scrambling to retire ASAP,” he said.

A few commentators have also raised statements Mitt Romney raised during the 2012 election cycle about "self deportation":

The term “self-deportation” has found its way into the GOP presidential primary race, with candidate Mitt Romney outlining a vague immigration platform which includes "self-deportation," or the idea that unauthorized immigrants will voluntarily choose to leave the U.S. if life here is made unbearable enough.

What I think we're beginning to see is a scramble in a number of quarters to get out of Trump's way even before he's inaugurated, in other words, a self-execution of Trump's promises either out of fear or a desire to stay on his good side.