Max Stier has been awfully quiet these past two days regarding the flap over this new information about him being the lynchpin between the FBI investigation into Justice Kavanaugh and the accusations of inappropriate behavior and assault by the Supreme Court Judge while he was at Yale University. Over the past few years, Stier has been attempting to keep his profile low to the ground by utilizing his services to advise and form the transition teams of the presidential candidates prior to the elections. His company was working tirelessly on the transition between the outgoing George W. Bush administration and the incoming Obama administration. He also worked on the Obama and Romney transition that never actually took place because of Romney’s election loss.
In his spare time, however, Stier was a fierce advocate for the government worker, often times pitting himself against the Trump administration and the Republican Congress members as a crusader of the lowly civic employee. When the rumors began swirling around about a possible government shutdown last year, Stier was quick to jump on the issue and pen an opinion letter to NBC News regarding the dire circumstances that a government shutdown would bring.
NBC News:
Year after year, the failure of Congress to do its job has eroded the ability of federal agencies to make prudent program, policy and management decisions on everything from national defense to the delivery of social services. The Department of Homeland Security, for example, repeatedly has had plans disrupted to strengthen cybersecurity defenses because of funding uncertainties.
The situation has gotten so out of hand that Congress and the White House may not settle on spending for this year by the time the president is scheduled to unveil his 2019 budget proposal in February.
This is no way to run a government.
Chronic budgetary uncertainty over the years has led agencies to postpone or scrap new programs and projects; prevented agencies from terminating unnecessary activities; resulted in lapses in public services; delayed the delivery of grants to states and localities; stopped agencies from entering into new private-sector contracts; and of course, wasted obscene amounts of taxpayer dollars.
With all the doom and gloom of a government shutdown soothsayer, Stier went right back into action again at The Washington Post as the shutdown occurred and he was using words such as “ugly,” “devastating,” and “dismal,” while noting that the “chronic budgetary uncertainty” and “systemic disregard for the federal workforce,” was a demonstration of the “partisan warfare” the administration and Congress were using against the “dedicated public servants [who] have been pawns in a bitter game of political chess.”
As well, Stier was critical of President Trump’s handling of the hiring freeze at the federal level back in 2017.
The Washington Post:
It makes no sense to freeze a problem in place rather than fix it. Although the president’s order to downsize the federal workforce through attrition has some exceptions, it is unclear exactly how it will be interpreted and applied. The order will not improve government performance, but could bar the door to hiring employees who are needed to prevent cyberattacks on federal computer systems, ensure the safety of our food supply and air quality, and provide important services to small businesses, farmers, seniors, veterans and students.
If our new president examined previous federal hiring freezes, he would find they hampered, not helped, government effectiveness. The Government Accountability Office, for example, reported that the hiring freezes imposed by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan “disrupted agency operations and, in some cases, increased the cost to the government” because they “ignored individual agencies’ missions, workload, and staffing requirements.”
Turn to the final page to read about the most shocking revelations about Max Stier that has come to light in regard to his comments about the September 11th attacks to NPR, as well as his ties to both the Resistance and dark money donors at Arabella Advisors!
