Beau of The Fifth Column

Reorganizes or renames offices, programs, or activities.

6.

Contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by federal employees.

It goes on, and there's actually more restrictions.

But the reorganizing, renaming, eliminations, relocations, and so on make it pretty clear that the union has a really strong case here.

This isn't Trump's first attempt at disrupting the Forest Service's work.

He tried to fire thousands of employees early in his second term.

Those dismissals were blocked by the courts, but the disruption still hurt the agency, and it looks like they wound up losing 1,000 employees who were trained to deal with wildfires.

The U.S.

Forest Service manages millions of acres of land across the country.

If you were to put it all together, it would be an area about the size of Texas.

The research, expertise, and services that will be lost by Trump's move will be immense.

Americans will be paying for it for years to come.

It seems incredibly likely that this is headed to court.

Anyway, it's just a thought.

Y'all have a good day.

It puts Trump in a tough situation, because if Iran is collecting tolls, it undermines his claims of victory.

Trump doesn't really seem to know how to respond.

We're accustomed to Trump flipping like a gymnast, but he's getting a gold medal on this one.

On Wednesday, April 8th, ABC's chief Washington correspondent, John Carl, said he talked to Trump about the tolls, and Trump reportedly said, quote,