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NonilexJoseph Rillotta, a senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IRS</a> lawyer, wrote that “no one” at the IRS had taken into account the performance of the probationary workers set to be fired. Rillotta urged that the language be struck from the draft termination letter.If the falsehood wasn’t removed, Rillotta said he would file a report w/the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InspectorGeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InspectorGeneral</a> for the IRS.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FactCheck</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpPurge</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PowerOfThePurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOfThePurse</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalAgencies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#judiciary</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConstitutionalCrisis</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a>

NonilexEmails Reveal Top <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IRS</a> Lawyer Warned <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Firings Were a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> on the CourtsThe Trump admin cited “performance” failures to justify its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassFiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassFiring</a> of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the admin had not conducted any such performance assessment.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FactCheck</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpPurge</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PowerOfThePurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOfThePurse</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalAgencies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#judiciary</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConstitutionalCrisis</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance</a>

Kim PeralesWill Democratic Senators, other than Fetterman, hold the line?Sen Alsobrooks speaks truth to power.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Purge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Purge</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CR</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firings</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PowerOfThePurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOfThePurse</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

David AugustCongress holds the power of the purse according to the Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7. Congress should be disbursing funds from the US Treasury itself, directly. Other Treasury functions can be shifted to other executive agencies, but the spending of the Treasury’s money is theirs. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Treasury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PowerOfThePurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOfThePurse</a>

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Quoting Sen. Angus King (I-ME): “‘[W]e're experiencing in real time exactly what the framers most feared. When you clear away the smoke, clear away the DOGE, the executive orders, foreign policy pronouncements, more fundamentally what's happening is the shredding of the constitutional structure itself. And we have a profound responsibility…to stop it.’”<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USConstitutionalOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USConstitutionalOrder</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SeperationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeperationOfPowers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USCongress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerOfThePurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOfThePurse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LettersFromAnAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LettersFromAnAmerican</a> <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2024-144" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2024-144</a>

Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ <a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Nonilex</a> >> The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigrationPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrationPolicy</a> story is actually 2 stories in one: — It's a domestic policy story where <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheDysfunctionIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheDysfunctionIsThePoint</a> to deny <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> a win (to help <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>) — It's a foreign policy story, giving aid and comfort to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HouseRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HouseRepublicans</a> are using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerOfThePurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOfThePurse</a> to usurp <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foreignPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foreignPolicy</a> from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/executive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#executive</a> by announcing a bill that leaves out aid to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> and thereby put the security of all of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> and the world at risk.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-military-aid-israel-ukraine-8b97e6e7df99e7ca4174cfbc560cfe42" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-military-aid-israel-ukraine-8b97e6e7df99e7ca4174cfbc560cfe42</a>

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