Posted on 04/04/2025 5:42:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages at 9:30 p.m.
They were from panicked colleagues at the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent, congressionally funded organization in Washington that had found itself in the crosshairs of billionaire Elon Musk's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.
At 10:09 p.m., Glantz's own termination notice arrived in an email telling her she was being fired, effective immediately. Most of USIP's 300 staff were laid off that night.
Glantz and her colleagues are not the only government workers who have been fired late on a Friday night since U.S. President Donald Trump and Musk launched their fast-moving effort to cut the size and cost of the federal bureaucracy.
While thousands of workers have been fired in the overhaul throughout the work week, Friday nights have become some of the most nerve-racking times for civil servants.
Mass firings have taken place on seven of the 10 Fridays that Trump has been in office since being sworn in on January 20, affecting hundreds of government workers, a Reuters review of the pattern of dismissals found.
The frequency and scale of the Friday night layoffs are unprecedented, say legal experts and historians.
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Independent, but congressionally-funded?
semi-ngo maybe? not cool.
“We find it’s always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there’s less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.”
Anyway Peter...
I would imagine most of those being fired knew they weren’t actually doing anything anyway.
Notice how the article reads “DOGE forced their way in” instead of NIP refused DOGE access by barricading themselves inside.
Per 22 USC § 4605
The Board shall consist of fifteen voting members as follows:
(1)The Secretary of State (or if the Secretary so designates, another officer of the Department of State who was appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate).
(2)The Secretary of Defense (or if the Secretary so designates, another officer of the Department of Defense who was appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate).
(3)The president of the National Defense University (or if the president so designates, the vice president of the National Defense University).
(4)Twelve individuals appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
“n outcome many economists see as plausible given the fact that near-full employment in the U.S. has led to deep labour shortages.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4308783/posts
So if there is this “near-full employment in the U.S. has led to deep labour shortages.” then its great these Tax payer funded leehes are let go, .no?
They can go take up the “the U.S. has led to deep labour shortages.”
Bye, who needs superior know it alls like her wasting our money?
Remind me, did the media make such breathless sob stories as millions of regular folks were fired from various industries over the past 3 or 4 decades?
Indeed sounds like a loophole how to pay for hookers on the list.
“ Independent, but congressionally-funded?”
There’s no such thing.
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Sailboats (and people) were built for the open sea, not safe harbors.
“Independent” means leftist infested and hoping to steal as much money as possible without oversight.
The slant in today’s journalism is staggeringly obvious, and amateurish.
Boo f***ing hoo.
No MSM sob stories about all the people in flyover country who have lost jobs in the last 30 years when mills and factories close down and the work sent to Mexico, China, India etc.
Closed the doors on another DNC laundry.
And as an added bonus we can now slash work visas and move full steam ahead in deporting illegal aliens since we don't "need" so many foreigners to fill all the jobs! Win-Win!
U.S. Institute of Peace? Really doing a heck of a job there brownie. Really getting our taxpayer monies worth.
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