Trump Thread

[Strike For The South]

Also the federal workers will get paid but the contractors apparently won't.

How on brand for this president.

[Montmorency]

I always strive to present high-quality auto-satire:

Trump ordered 15,000 new border and immigration officers — but got thousands of vacancies instead

Two years after President Trump signed orders to hire 15,000 new border agents and immigration officers, the administration has spent tens of millions of dollars in the effort — but has thousands more vacancies than when it began.

In a sign of the difficulties, Customs and Border Protection allocated $60.7 million to Accenture Federal Services, a management consulting firm, as part of a $297-million contract to recruit, vet and hire 7,500 border officers over five years, but the company has produced only 33 new hires so far.

The president’s promised hiring surge steadily lost ground even as he publicly hammered away at the need for stiffer border security, warned of a looming migrant invasion and shut down parts of the government for five weeks over his demands for $5.7 billion from Congress for a border wall.

The Border Patrol gained a total of 120 agents in 2018, the first net gain in five years.

@Pannonian You have nothing on the US when it comes to shady government consulting contracts.

Officials could not “provide complete data to support the operational need or deployment strategies for the additional 15,000 additional agents and officers they were directed to hire,” the inspector general’s office wrote.

hee

[Shaka_Khan]

He could hire people who ironically want to immigrate to America, kind of like when the newly immigrated Irish were recruited for the Civil War.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

He could hire people who ironically want to immigrate to America, kind of like when the newly immigrated Irish were recruited for the Civil War.

The Irish brigade used the cry 'Faugh A Ballagh' in part because some of its members didn't have enough English to use instead. They were taken from the boat to a train depot, given the blue coat and shipped to war.