Great opportunity. Send them home packing and only allow a small part back that supports the constitutional portion of the federal government. The rest, PERMANENTLY DISMANTLE!!!!
People who rant & rave about federal workers miss the point entirely! They’re just the symptom not the cause. It’s like blaming the fever for the disease!
The cause is the congresscritter you continually re-elect. You know, my congressman\woman is great yadda yadda....it’s those other congressmen\women who are bad yadda ydaa.... For twenty years federal budgets have grown by something like 8% a year Not a single fed worker is directly responsible for that. They don’t vote for those budgets! Many many of us want our turn at the taxpayer money trough!
If you zero’ed out the salaries and pensions of federal workers, etc. we still go off the financial cliff! Using 2022 numbers and adding in postal workers, military salaries and pensions its 13.8% of the budget. (Note: Non-DOD & postal its 7%!) Fed workers are not the primary problem!
The primary problem: There’s always a million persuasive political reasons to spend money! (and we fall for most of them!) Hardly any politically persuasive reasons for not doing so.