Posted on 01/20/2026 3:32:52 PM PST by Eleutheria5
President Trump on Tuesday touted shedding nearly 300,000 employees from the federal payroll during his first year back in the White House as part of a rambling address to reporters largely devoted to defending his administration’s crackdown on immigrant communities and dissent and threatened expansionism.
The comments on the federal workforce came during a more than hour-long presentation at the start of a briefing with reporters aimed at highlighting the administration’s first-year accomplishments. Trump read prepared remarks noting that the federal payroll has fallen by 270,000 workers since his inauguration last January, though he quickly inflated that figure to “millions.” The Office of Personnel Management has estimated federal job losses to the tune of 317,000 during fiscal 2025.
Trump then defended the purge of federal civil servants, claiming, again without evidence, that those who left government were now making upwards of triple what they made from their “boring federal job” in the private sector.
“We cut millions of people from the federal payroll—I don’t like doing that, but the good news is I don’t feel badly because now they’re getting private sector jobs and they’re getting some times twice as much money, three times as much money,” he said. “They’re getting factory jobs; they’re getting much better jobs and much higher pay.”
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Trump should say “The are now PRODUCTIVELY employed in the private sector whereas before they were churning out millions of anti-competitive regulations strangling our economy in bureaucratic red tape. For $1 we paid each of those people, it cost us $10 in lost productivity.”
Schumer promises he will reverse this if given majority this fall. Prepare accordingly
“””I love it when they say “Trump said without evidence”. Usually precedes conclusive evidence. “””
Remember when they always used that phrase when talking about a democrat????? Me, neither.
Look someone bought pajama boy a shirt. I’ll bet he was crying when he wrote this.
He looks like one of the losers on the couch at the frat party in Animal House.
Parallel universe, maybe?
The downside is that when they get jobs in the private sector, they are actually required to be productive, something that is rarely necessary when working for the government.
LOL!
I blame Trump for only cutting 300,000.
Hopefully this will be an annual thing. Cut 300,000 more this year.
From 2020. Note the timing...
To which we should add the savings of what those people either spent or curtailed in the private market. My gut level number is to triple the loaded payroll cost. So call it a savings of $150 Billion. It's not really that much in terms of total Federal Spending. It's progress, but it's trimming at the edges. But at least it is trimming. There sure as hell need to be a lot of Feds in Minneapolis looking for work.
The bond paper, paper clip, etc counters are pissed!!!!!
Prepared, the way things are the dems will be lucky to have a hundred out of both houses/
LOL 🤣🤣🤣
Next to Jugdish!!
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