Posted on 03/22/2025 7:39:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping federal layoffs aren’t just wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of employees across the country.
Lawmakers in both parties are warning the cuts will harm the government’s ability to recruit young people out of college — as well as highly skilled candidates from the private sector — causing a ripple effect that could be felt for years or even decades.
“The recruiting challenge they’re creating for themselves is enormous,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., whose state is home to hundreds of thousands of federal workers, said of the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts. “I don’t think that’s an accidental byproduct. I think that’s a known consequence — and they don’t care.”
For many young people, particularly those attending college in and around the nation’s capital, DOGE has been a live-fire exercise.
One student at Georgetown University was hoping that her current internship at a federal agency would help her secure a full-time job there before she graduates in May. She found her work in the sciences rewarding and her co-workers “brilliant” and inspiring.
But in just two short months, the DOGE cuts and federal hiring freeze have upended her career plans. The student, who requested anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to speak to the media, told NBC News she’s now putting her dreams of working in government on hold and making a pivot to the private sector.
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🎻🎻🎻I do not think that will be a problem.
Federal teat folks have a sad?
Awwww....
Yet they never gave a damn about the devastating effect their horrible policies had on private sector employment.
Timmy Kaine is worried about future recruiting? LOL
Good! The grifting scum wont apply, knowing that they wont be able to pilfer hard working americans money at will!
Those who are honest will not be driven away!
In reality, we were paying her to be an activist for the Democratic Party.
Promise?
Blind press pig finds a truffle.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Worried much about your disappearing voter base kaine?
Why? The competent will be kept and the mediocre and inferior will not be hired. Government work should not be an employment program.
So just getting people who want to the job is bad, not those just looking for a lifetime hammock .
THIS IS SIMPLY LOL! AS IF.
Typical MSM “sky-is-falling” article.
For Gawd's sake she is a graduating senior and has her entire professional life in front of her. I think she'll be okay.
Good.
What is Kaine’s biggest worry?
1 Is it recruiting the next generation of fed workers for the sake of the federal government?
2 Or recruiting the next generation of Northern Virginia democrats that will donate to his campaign and vote for him?
I’d bet on #2. Democrats are never concerned with the good of people or the country. They are concerned with their party and their own political careers. Loss of fed workers means loss of votes, big time.
Who knows, maybe in a couple voting cycles Northern VA will be Republican enough so the whole state goes red.
I don’t think it’s necessary to worry about the next generation of work at home government workers. They’re fighting for those jobs right now. Those who don’t get one or lose one are committing suicide.
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