Posted on 04/02/2025 4:24:27 AM PDT by cgbg
Federal agencies have accelerated their efforts to cut thousands of jobs, offering buyouts and eliminating entire offices as the Trump administration’s deadline to downsize approaches.
At least six federal agencies have in recent days extended a “deferred resignation” offer that was originally pitched to government workers in January as a one-time opportunity that would allow employees to resign but continue to be paid for a period of time.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The benefit of the carrot is that employees who take the deal have done so voluntarily and sign away their rights to take the administration to court.
This is a part of the administration's "do everything all at once" approach to reducing the size of government.
The article is free—some lefty already bought it so it is ok to click on it—no money goes to the lefties on the New York Times.
One major fallacy in the article is the argument that federal wages are just a small part of the budget.
While technically correct it is highly misleading.
Federal employees generate tons of rules and regulations that cripple private sector productivity.
In addition they administer all the grants and contracts to institutions that are leftist power centers and work twenty four/seven to take away our liberties.
Reducing federal employees crushes DEI, LGBT, “climate change” garbage etc etc etc.
This is about power.
When we cut federal employees we get more power and the left gets less.
BTTT
A good, but temporary reprieve. Another President can add them back in.
Until Congress acts to pass legislation doing away with organizations and agencies, it’s still a threat.
You know - the Congress that was adjourned until next week and that can’t pass spending bills using Regular Order.
Thousands of things are a small part of the overall budget. That means we can’t do anything about anything. No matter how small if things are not needed, get rid of them.
Parasites always get squirmy when they are discovered and treated for removal.
The gambit is standard procedure in American Industry. Among other things, it allows drunks and dead wood to leave before being fired for cause.
If the interest rates dropped, all the retiring senior Federal employees could sell their DC homes for a higher price it would be a boom.
The enemy is always a threat—no matter what we do.
That is why you do what you can when you can...and celebrate each victory...and move on to the next victory.
That’s exactly why they are so angry.
Temporary has a way of becoming permanent.
Excellent comment.
Worrying about what Congress is doing this week is like this.....
An Amish village is working together to build a house for a neighbor—since their old house burnt to the ground.
In the background if you listen carefully you can hear the toddlers playing and screaming in a house down the street.
The adult villagers are the hard working members of the administration.
The toddlers are Congress!
I’ll take the Amish toddlers over the current congress anytime.
According to the article “At the health department, for example, less than 1 percent of its spending goes to staff.” at 82,000 employees at 150,000 per year including bennies = 12,300,000,000 with total budget 1,230,000,000,000
Mrs. VanShuyten is still waiting for her early retirement offer.
Layoffs aren’t painful. Biden increased federal employment from 2.1 million to 3 million. Trump can cut the federal workforce by a third and he would just be cutting jobs that were created in the past two years. This is all propaganda.
Here is an article that drills down agency by agency with a chart of Biden administration actions for each agency:
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/see-where-and-how-biden-grew-federal-workforce/401945/
What deadline? If there is a short deadline, they should have fired millions by now (or reassigned them to combat).
Agreed—there is no one “deadline”.
Every agency has a different “path” to massive cuts.
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