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Good
afternoon
folks
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You
sent
me
to
Congress
with
a
specific
mission:
to
cut
wasteful
spending
and
make
Washington
squeal.
That's
why
every
month,
I
research
and
identify
areas
of
waste,
abuse
and
inefficiencies
and
give
out
my
Squeal
Award,
which
recognizes
a
Washington
concept
that
has
proven
to
be
wasteful
and
must
go.
Squeal
Award:
Bureaucratic
Burrowers
When
you
hear
the
word
“burrow”,
you might traditionally
think
of
a
rabbit
digging
in
a
garden
or
a
gopher
tunneling
out
in
a
field.
However,
in
Washington,
D.C.
“burrowing”
refers
to
a government
agency insider
practice where political employees,
or
“appointees”
use their position
and
influence
to
transition
their
temporary
positions
into
life-long
careers
at
a
federal
agency.
A
political
appointee
is assigned
to
a
federal
agency by
the
sitting
administration
to
help
achieve
the
administration’s
established
policy
goals.
While
most
political
employees
leave
federal
service
at
the
end
of
the
administration,
some
try
to
convert their
temporary positions into
career positions,
typically
targeting
high-paying,
senior
level
jobs.
According
to
a
2017
study
by
the
Government
Accountability
Office,
467
political
appointees
became
career
employees
between
1998
and
2016!
The
American
people
do
not
need
appointees
from
past
administrations,
who
have
become
entrenched
in
the
Washington
bureaucracy,
wielding
their
influence
and
clogging
the
gears
of
the
federal
agencies
that
are
trying
to
serve
our
country.
While
political
appointees
do
play
a
vital
role
in
achieving
the
policy
goals
of
an
administration,
they
should
not
be
allowed
to
immediately
become
career
employees
when
their
administration
leaves
town.
That
is
why I recently introduced
the
Political
Appointee Burrowing
Prevention
Act to
place
commonsense
restrictions
on
this
beltway-bubble
practice. I
joined
Fox
Business
to
discuss
and
introduce
this
new
legislation,
which
you
can
watch
by
clicking
the
image
below…
I'm
presenting
this
month’s
Squeal
Award to
the
Washington-insider
practice
of
'burrowing',
and
look
forward
to
working
with
my
colleagues
to
pass
the
Political
Appointee
Burrowing
Prevention
Act
to
make
sure
the
only
burrowers
you
have
to
worry
about
are
the
ones
in
your
lawn.
Do
you
have
an
example
of
government
waste
or
inefficiencies
that
I
should
take
a
look
at?
Send
me
an
email
by clicking
here.
Thank
you!
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