Posted on 01/25/2025 1:34:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on administrative leave because she works on projects that connect Black students, among others, to federal government programs.
A disabled veteran employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs grew emotional when he heard about the rescinding of telework options, unsure whether it would mean the end of his job taking care of fellow soldiers.
A Federal Trade Commission employee was so anxious that he told family members not to talk about politics on unencrypted lines. Across government agencies, workers eyed one another nervously, wondering whether a colleague would report them, accusing them of resisting the new administration’s move to end certain programs.
President Trump’s rapid push to overhaul the federal bureaucracy in his first days in office has been met with a mix of fear, fury and confusion throughout the work force.
More than two dozen employees across the government, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of worries of retribution, described agencies gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the new policies and workers frantically trying to assess the impact on their careers and families. As the nation’s largest employer, the upheaval in the federal government could reverberate in communities throughout the country.
Starting on Inauguration Day, the orders and memos came down one after the other, many crafted in the pugnacious tone of a campaign speech: the shuttering of “Radical and Wasteful” diversity programs in federal agencies; the stripping of civil service protections from a share of the federal work force; the end to remote work, which, one administration memo claimed, had left federal office buildings “mostly empty” and rendered downtown Washington “a national embarrassment.”
All new hiring was frozen, job offers were rescinded, scientific meetings were...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They say that like it's a bad thing.
Here comes the tear jerkers ...
“As the nation’s largest employer...”
I think the “reporter” unwittingly swerved into a significant part of the problem.
“ They say that like it’s a bad thing.”
Exactly.
Fear and confusion in deep state and stasis bureaucracy - it’s a good thing.
You can’t go too far.
You can’t layoff too many.
You can’t cut too much.
Let’s really test the limits.
Agree the New York Times will be doing a lot of sob stories now things are being corrected the illegals top the list.
BARF ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!
Same thing Milei did in Argentina, for the same problem. A gargantuan administrative state that stifled the country and lived off the producers.
“Across government agencies, workers eyed one another nervously, wondering whether a colleague would report them, accusing them of resisting the new administration’s move to end certain programs.”
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Delicious. Absolutely delicious.
Don’t violate the EO’s and there won’t be a problem.
It’s time the left went into warfare against its own.
Check
Trump’s Moves to Upend UNCONSTITUTIONAL Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off REJOICING, DANCING IN THE STREETS, AND AN ECONOMIC BOON (possibly after a temporary economic adjustment similar to the Reagan era).
I must admit that the feeble cries of the New York Times give me pleasure. ;-)
Yeh, cry me a river. If they’re part of the left wing agenda then buh bye!
Now they know how Republicans felt for the prior few years.
We need an animated GIF of a sad-looking widow or orphan sawing away at a violin.
None of whom pay a CENT in taxes.
They are paid BY taxes, by people who ADD value to the economy.
Government employment is a net DRAIN on GDP.
-Evil Orange Man, still in his first week, Oh no!
=Pearls-clutching reaches Ludicrous speed
Corrective surgery always involves some apprehension and pain. But then you’re much better off for it.
Codewords for DEI director.
It’s good to see the hacks at the NYT publish an uplifting story. Give us more.
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