First of all?
65,000 Federal workers are RETIRING 7 months early and getting paid to stay home…
Not a bad Deal for them, eh?
(Actually 200,000 leave every year anyways…)
Of course the media and Trump ain’t talking about the fact these have to be senior people….
And?
The Federal Government IS STILL hiring people….
If you read the stuff in the newspapers….
NOT on TV ?
You also find out that some of these people where new hires attached to the Biden ‘FDR Effort’ that Republicans will take credit for and try to cut…
The number of people actually fired probably is less that 50….
They are mostly bosses….
USAID people and others ‘laid off’ have been ordered back to work by judges…..
The Trump/Musk cuts have also been in small agencies that amout to less than 5%…..
Those two guys are no promising more ‘MASS’ Cuts…..
But like the Immigration ‘MASS Dentions’ they are unlikely to occur
That’s because Trump & Co. have places Military, Security and Law Enforcement off bounds for cuts….
And?
Guess where the VAST MAJORITY of Federal payroll goes to?
Where the rubber will meet the road is in the upcoming Spending Bill from Congress….
There Democrats and even some Republicans ARE going to buck Trump/Musk and restore funding fore something the two are seeking to get rid of….
85% of American Government workers work ACROSS AMERICA….
Cutting jobs will affect EVERY Congressional District and State….
Legally if it matter’s?
The President CANNOT just shut down whole Federal agencies and Departments …
They ARE creatures of the Congress…
It will be interstring to see how Federal Lawmakers handle the people back home who will begin to ‘feel’ layoff’s….Less Federal services and rising Consumer Prices….
I say over and OVER HERE….
The US Government isn’t a socal media blog like Twitter…
These two guys do NOT undretand THAT….
Oh?
The Job cuts announced by these two amount to LESS THAN a 1% Cut in the Federal Budget…..
OPTICS AND POLITICS I’d say….
Most agencies, with the exception of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, lost head count during the first Trump administration.
The Small Business Administration more than doubled in size to administer the Paycheck Protection Program, which provided loans to small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Employment at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provides foreign aidand Trump has sought to dismantle, went up 6 percent under his first term.
Many agencies grew under Biden, in part to support major legislation passed, including: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which invested in transportation and utilities infrastructure; the Pact Act, which expanded benefits and services for veterans; and the Inflation Reduction Act, which, among other things, invested in green technologies and lowered prescription drug prices….
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Trump has made clear he is not seeking cuts to agencies focused on defense and security. In Tuesday’s executive order, employees and work “related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement” were exempted. That makes substantial reductions to the federal workforce more difficult….
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Over 60 percent of all civilian federal workers, excluding postal workers, are employed by either the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security or Department of Veterans Affairs, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management. By contrast, USAID makes up 0.2 percent of federal workers, or about 4,600 people…
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In a statement following the executive order, Doreen Greenwald, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said it “would decimate government services critical to the American public.”
“Federal employees protect the environment, safeguard the public health, provide aid to Americans in need, promote economic growth, and secure the nation,” she said.
Despite common misconceptions, most federal workers do not live in and around Washington, D.C. While the nation’s capital and its surrounding suburbs may symbolize the federal bureaucracy Trump and Musk seek to slash, most of the federal workforce — more than 85 percent — works elsewhere…
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The latest executive order is part of a broader effort by DOGE to dramatically reduce government spending and a key part in the Trump administration’s broader agenda to assert power over a diminished federal government. But to substantially cut the budget, the bulk of savings would need to be found elsewhere: a 25 percent reduction in the federal workforce reduces federal spending by just 1 percent…
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