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Posted on 03/21/2026 8:49:05 PM PDT by Mount Athos
So Elon Musk and crew found truly epic amounts of and fraud. Finally an opportunity to shrink government and reduce corruption and the deficit.
Then congress shot it right down. Even the Republicans mostly voted against it
What the hell was that? Was there ever a coherent explanation? No further attempts, just dead forever?
What was the plan to fix this sort of thing now, just everyone moved on? No further discussion, no second try, just a giant finger to the voters and country.
Help me understand
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According to the Leo AI
The federal workforce has been reduced by approximately 10% to 13.7% in 2025 under the second Trump administration, resulting in a net loss of about 238,000 to 249,000 employees after accounting for new hires.
Workforce Reduction Scope
Multiple sources report varying figures depending on the timeframe and methodology. The Pew Research Center found a 10.3% decline from December 2024 to December 2025, equating to nearly 238,000 fewer workers. Other analyses, such as those from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), indicate a 13.7% decrease compared to September 2024 levels, with over 317,000 total separations during fiscal 2025.
Key Drivers of the Cuts
The reductions were largely driven by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a temporary initiative backed by Elon Musk. The administration used deferred resignation offers—dubbed the “Fork in the Road” program—encouraging employees to leave with pay through September 2025. Around 123,000 workers exited in September alone. Most departures were classified as voluntary quits or early retirements, though experts argue the environment made them effectively involuntary.
Agency-Specific Impacts
Some agencies faced drastic cuts:
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Down 92.4%, from nearly 4,900 to 370 employees.
Department of Education: Shrunk 42.6%.
Treasury, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services: Each lost over 19% of staff.
Long-Term Implications
The cuts disproportionately affected experienced workers, with a 33.2% decrease among those with over 30 years of service. Critics warn of a “brain drain” that undermines government capacity, while the administration claims $29 billion in annual savings and improved efficiency.
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It ranks up there with the Kraken. All false bravado.
“Austerity” is unpopular. The “Free Stuff Army” is still the master of the politicians.
Congress didn’t have the stomach to see it through. We need to get rid of so many grifters there. Especially in the Senate.
DOGE current status links:
https://www.us-debt-clock.com/doge
https://www.us-debt-clock.com/blog/doge-government-spending-cuts
(Congress not codifying many/if any DOGE cuts...i.e. DOGE cuts could be reinstated by an incoming administration).
DOGE’s main purpose was not to decrease the size of government, but to make more of us aware of the excesses of government. The amount that it decreased is good too, but secondary
Actually, you need to catch up. The Kraken is very, very real. The problem with Sidney Powell and Rudy Guiliani’s statements about the Kraken is that they spoke up publicly BEFORE we got the testimony of over a dozen Venezuelan engineers who did the elections thefts through the Smartmatic source code inserted into Dominion and other election systems. We now have the testimony of those and others and the DOJ is currently getting subpoenas and seizing voting records in GA and AZ (so far) to corroborate the ways that the engineers said they stole those specific elections in 2020.
With the help of USAID (cough, cough Deep State), Venezuela and its communist-Islamist co-conspirators (Cuba, China, Russia, Serbia, and Iran) got Dominion into all of the US swing states and into 72 other countries. They’ve been stealing elections in the US since 2008.
In 2012, around the same time as John Brennan and James Clapper commissioned Dennis Montgomery to undetectably upload falsified versions of the entire Hawaii DOH database as well as the Florida voter registration database, John Brennan’s company installed Huawei servers at Dominion’s global headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia. From there, totally fabricated election “results” were uploaded to the election systems in the various US states to steal the 2012 election for Barack Obama. In Patrick Byrne’s lawsuit against Eric Coomer (the Dominion guy who allegedly told Antifa peeps that he made sure Trump would not win 2020), Byrne through very specific questioning got Coomer to admit that the Belgrade server had access to the US systems - which he had previously denied but that former CIA superhero Gary Berntsen and his research partner had already gotten whistleblowers to testify about.
See https://rumble.com/embed/v6zv0pq/ for all of this.
Scuttlebutt is that what Tina Peters in CO managed to save revealed the insertion point for that fabricated database from Serbia to enter the system; that’s why they had to destroy her as well as destroy the evidence during their “routine maintenance” that actually destroyed records required to be retained.
Trump has said that there will soon be indictments regarding the 2020 election theft.
DOGE has been hamstrung by Congress and by judges. The Venezuelan whistleblowers have said there are Congress-critters who are in the pay of Venezuela. The Venezuelan govt’s mafia arm is Cartel del Sol which is over all the other cartels. They use those cartels’ drug and human trafficking money to buy critical officials so that the election theft can happen. Berntsen specifically mentioned the GA governor (who also received the “stick” of having his daughter’s boyfriend suspiciously killed at a critical moment in the 2020 election saga).
Markwayne Mullin is one who was given all of Berntsen’s information and actually worked to get the 2024 election secure. The US military blocked that server that Brennan installed so that the “results” showing a Kamala win were not able to be uploaded.
I was very interested to see Sen Reuben Gallego, whose dad is a cartel leader and who was installed through the theft that Mullin knew all about, questioning Mullin in the confirmation hearings, trying to get him to say that we dare not question the honesty of the 2020 election. Gallego is a guy who was put into office by the communist-Islamist cabal and he’s trying to claim higher moral authority over the guy who knows exactly how he stole his way into office. If it wasn’t so serious I’d have died laughing at the irony of it.
So anyway, the people who made sure that DOGE didn’t go anywhere... are in the pay of the communist-Islamist cabal and many of them owe their political career to that cabal. It’s all tied together.
And especially since Dennis Montgomery was also commissioned to spy on SCOTUS justices and judges all over the country for extortion purposes, so that Clapper & Brennan could control the judiciary. All the lawfare we’ve seen and all the rulings that keep we the people from impacting anything even if we do get decent people elected.... come from these crooks in our Deep State and their communist-Islamist allies all over the world.
These are the reasons that the corruption remains even with DOGE on the case. And we’re only going to be able to clean up that corruption when we address the root cause: stolen elections and the cartels buying off our officials.
We know what happened. The people stealing all that loot wanted the gravy train to keep on rolling. The corrupt redistribution machine has become far worse than any organized crime syndicate before it.
There is a shorter explanation for “DOGE Fatigue”/lack of “gumption”: the budget is beyond fixing at this point (barring massive tax increases)...if you get rid of every government agency and all of their employees except for Social Security, Medicare, the VA and the “DoW”/DoD you will have saved a total of $925 Billion...the current federal budget deficit is around $1.8 Trillion.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/
You must be behind in the news.
Bttt
Hopefully they’ll get there soon. The whistleblowers have said they stole enough individual states to steal the whole thing for Biden, so I suspect they will get there.
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