Posted on 02/22/2025 9:30:55 AM PST by simpson96
A prominent member of "Black Americans for Trump" organization parted ways with the president on CNN Saturday morning over the slash-and-burn methods of Elon Musk's DOGE that is devastating the families of fired federal workers.
According to GOP strategist Melik Abdul, an acquaintance of his lost his federal job in a rural community as part of the purge after only being on the job for six months.
After CNN's "Table for Five" Abby Philip shared clips of Jesse Watters of Fox News "freaking out" about the federal worker purge after a veteran getting "DOGE'd," as the Fox host put it, after previously gleefully calling the mass firings "a blessing from heaven above," Abdul chimed in with a similar story.
"It seems like that Jesse Watters agrees with me that Republicans should stop demonizing federal workers," he told the panel.
"To his point, I know a guy down in Alabama, first time getting a government job. He had, you know, fresh out of college, had been trying to get a job for a couple of years now, finally got that government job, I think, about six months ago –– well, he's laid off now," he reported. "So his kid, his wife, all of that promise, it's totally gone."
"And I think your point is right," he elaborated. "Once people start seeing –– because when we think of federal government, for many anti-government people, they think DMV, meaning D.C., Maryland and Virginia, they don't see federal government as someone working, living in a rural area of Mississippi, commuting to a job at the Department of Agriculture. They don't see them as federal workers, which is why it's always easy to just say, 'Shut them down, they'll get paid.' That's not how it works."
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Will all of the left’s beloved illegal aliens jumping the fences at their jobs and heading for the tall grass, there will soon be all kinds of jobs.
Somehow, overpaid, underworked federal employees losing their sinecures, regardless of race, fails to elicit in me a feeling of dismay.
TBH, I've never even heard of University of DC and its English degree program.
Welcome to the real world were you get fired when a company has to cut back because it’s not making enough money.
The feds don’t ever fire people, they keep adding because budgets have grown endlessly over the last 40 years. That is not sustainable and everyone knows it.
Sux to lose your job but there are 10 million openings in the market. Go find another.
We don’t need him.
Obviously still a Dem Communist.
How is it that, suddenly, federal jobs are some sort of welfare entitlement? As an aside, business hasn’t been great for me in the last two years, but I don’t go to social media, the press, or FreeRepublic to bitch about it because I know there are far worse off people in North Carolina and Los Angeles - with no work or even a home - right now. Suck it!
Its web site: https://www.udc.edu/
In English, it offers a BA, and no graduate degrees.
About 4K students, mostly women these days. 4200 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008
The American voter is pretty fickle...
“after only being on the job for six months”
C’mon man, you do nothing gubmit job is OVER!
Seriously, what did this guy expect?
“fresh out of college, had been trying to get a job for a couple of years now, finally got that government job, I think, about six months ago –– well, he’s laid off now,” he reported. “So his kid, his wife, “
This is just made up shiiite.
Even if true, Malik, I don’t give a shiiite.
This will get louder and louder, as blacks account for a disproportionate portion of Federal jobs, 18%, compared to their portion of the population (12%): https://usafacts.org/articles/three-charts-on-diversity-in-the-federal-governments-workforce/
So they will likely be dismissed from those jobs according to their portion of the workforce, which will then be called racist since it will be higher than their portion of the population. Look for the horror stories in the comPost coming out of PG County, Maryland.
All they’ve got left is to wave the “bloody shirt” of “racism.”
So did Jesse Waters. Which tells me that it’s nothing but lip service.
So, America is only about this guys friend? Gee.
huh. prominent, eh? I never heard of him.
If any of them want a government job, JOIN THE MILITARY.
Trump said this was coming…..doesnt appear Trump is playing favorites here Malik. Just TCB.
Right out of college this guys buddy landed his dream job with the federal govt? Being overpaid to work from home on the peoples dime is not something Id want defining me.
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