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Rattled Democrats urge Deep State fed employees to reject Trump's buyout as DOGE's offer tempts 20,000
The Daily Mail ^ | 04 Feb 2025 | NIKKI SCHWAB

Posted on 02/04/2025 2:41:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 02/04/2025 2:41:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Speaking of DOGE, I love this...

@DOGE boys storming the beaches of Normandeep

2 posted on 02/04/2025 2:43:23 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

LOL hilarious! 🤣


3 posted on 02/04/2025 2:44:14 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I bet they are. Hahahaha.


4 posted on 02/04/2025 2:44:22 PM PST by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Well, I guess we know what happens next then . . . . . . .


5 posted on 02/04/2025 2:44:27 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Multi millionaire Donks in the Senate don’t want little people to move on....


6 posted on 02/04/2025 2:46:44 PM PST by BigEdLB (Adults are in charge )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Don’t take the buyout! Our phony-baloney jobs are at stake!” Yeah, right. Don’t forget that the final offer is “Nothing”.


7 posted on 02/04/2025 2:47:41 PM PST by Billthedrill
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8 posted on 02/04/2025 2:49:52 PM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: Billthedrill
“Don’t take the buyout! Our phony-baloney jobs are at stake!” Yeah, right. Don’t forget that the final offer is “Nothing”.

It'll be like Twitter.

While it's true that Trump can't get rid of Federal Employees easily but he can fire them for job performance and insubordination. So at this rate, he'll be able to fire 80% of the Swamp.

9 posted on 02/04/2025 2:50:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

At 5 PM on Thursday make the new offer.
Continued pay until June 6th or when you get laid off.


10 posted on 02/04/2025 2:50:42 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Second Prize: a set of steak knives

Third Prize: You’re fired


11 posted on 02/04/2025 2:50:46 PM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: MinorityRepublican
We will be keeping those patriots and their families in our prayers nightly.

Meanwhile, on the hive of scum and villainy that Trump is fighting...

SEN. KENNEDY: “I know many people in Washington D.C. that would unplug your life support to charge their cell phone.”

12 posted on 02/04/2025 2:51:26 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Anything to get radical Democrats out of my government
is a good thing!


13 posted on 02/04/2025 2:52:08 PM PST by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: MinorityRepublican

He can RIF them. (RIF - Reduction In Force) Decide the job is no longer be necessary. That means the task & slot go away. You can’t just turn around and then hire someone in that slit. I think Carter did a RIF.


14 posted on 02/04/2025 2:57:27 PM PST by Reily (a)
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To: Billthedrill
“Don’t take the buyout! Our phony-baloney jobs are at stake!”

Sssshhhh! I would prefer that they don’t take the offer! Much cheaper to just can their butts 30 or 40 days from now.
15 posted on 02/04/2025 3:01:45 PM PST by j_guru
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But the American Federation of Government Employees union is claiming the offer could be a 'trick' and Democrats have slammed it as 'scam.'

The "trick" is that the government debt ceiling expires in March. All of a sudden, the Democrats will become fiscal conservatives and refuse to extend the ceiling, so continued severance payments to the ones who took the buyout will be suspended. Regular paychecks to remaining "non-essential" government employees will also be suspended. The Democrats and the union officials can blame it all on "President Donald Trump and His Evil Gang of Republicans".

Somewhere in there is a catchy tune.

Perhaps that will enrage 2 million people sufficiently to have Trump overthrown as President.

Or perhaps, we will have a more accurate target identification for the next round of Federal government layoffs.

My bet is on the second prospect.

16 posted on 02/04/2025 3:07:24 PM PST by flamberge (The times, they are a' changing.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

this is how a humanitarian administration pares back the size of its workforce

by offering some sort of early retirement (or just resignation) bonus

this usually works to cut the forces within just a couple months. After which, the administration does a head count and determines if enough folks have taken the bonu

if so, great.
if not (and in the case of the super-bloated WashDC civil service, almost certainly no incentive program could possibly trim the forces enough to get them down to reasonable size), then layoffs proceed. But at least the number of outright layoffs has been minimized through the voluntary force reductions.

This is a good way for PDJT to be proceeding and I am glad to see he has gotten right on top of it and started the voluntary reductions already. WashDC needs to be cut back appreciably......and 100 percent in those unconstitutional or out of control agencies like aeeeeeteeeeefff and eyeRess and a few dozen of the more outfits that are either bad ab initio or that have gone rotten


17 posted on 02/04/2025 3:09:22 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: flamberge
The "trick" is that the government debt ceiling expires in March.

The Republicans have a majority. We don't need to have Democrats to join us.

They can whine all they want.

18 posted on 02/04/2025 3:10:04 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: flamberge

Right now there are a bunch of federal grants that are “on hold”—I believe for ninety days. We are talking big bucks here.

That gets it past the March debt ceiling date....


19 posted on 02/04/2025 3:10:39 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tell them to put THEIR money where their mouth is.

Stop spending (wasting) mine.


20 posted on 02/04/2025 3:16:52 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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