Pretty much this is what I'm worried about. Hopefully the government record keeping laws are robust enough that they can eke out a real answer about responsibility by threatening additional charges over failure to document those.
swiftly identify the officials who violated his orders
I think this is likely to be the hangup. Everything with this administration is so chaotic and ad-hoc that it might be hard to pin it on a single person or group. If they don't have beyond-reasonable-doubt certainty that the person they're holding in contempt is responsible, it'll probably just get overturned, weakening the bigger Trump v Courts battle.
I don't want to get too specific, but I work for a government-backed agency not directly funded by congress; we provide a service for parts of the government that they pay us for rendering. We had to raise our rates to cover all the deferred resignation people's salaries. So there you go, one more way the taxpayer is paying more for the same service. Because of DOGE.
They abolished the bonus that is the cultural norm and consistently given out every year, and redistributed it across the workers regular pay. Sony and Bamco now get to advertise a higher salary without actually giving workers any more money.
Did you read it? They abolished a bonus and redistributed it across their regular pay. They now get to advertise a higher salary without actually giving their workers any more money.
Anything to avoid improving the workers' well-being.
Edit: they abolished the bonus that is the cultural norm and consistently given out every year, and redistributed it across the workers regular pay. Sony and Bamco now get to advertise a higher salary without actually giving workers any more money.
Now they spend all day laying around until it's time for their human to bring them food or belly rubs. Has there ever been a greater evolutionary win?