Posted on 10/10/2025 8:36:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump began his promised mass purge of federal workers Friday, as more than 4,100 people were laid off as the government shutdown rolls on.
The president previewed the pink slips in a press conference in the Oval Office earlier Friday, blaming them and the shutdown on the Democrats.
'It'll be a lot and it'll be Democrat-oriented because we figure they started this thing. It'll be a lot of people, all because of the Democrats,' Trump said.
It's the biggest set of firings in government since Elon Musk's DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) purge early in Trump's second term.
The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.
Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on the social platform X that the 'RIFs have begun,' referring to reduction-in-force plans aimed at reducing the size of the federal government.
The White House previewed that it would pursue the aggressive layoff tactic shortly before the government shutdown began on Oct. 1, telling all federal agencies to submit their reduction-in-force plans to the budget office for its review.
It said reduction-in-force could apply for federal programs whose funding would lapse in a government shutdown, is otherwise not funded and is 'not consistent with the President´s priorities.'
Donald Trump began his promised mass purge of federal workers Friday, as more than 4,100 people were laid off as the government shutdown rolls on
The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.
In a court filing, the budget...
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I voted for this. More please.
I voted for this!
Less Government and better
performance.
Government jobs are NOT a
jobs program for minorities, or
white women.
Get it?
Of course you don’t, because you
are “entitled”
to special treatment.
BS; we are going to cut you guys off
from the politically driven Teat.
Hopefully, besides cutting programs, he targets democrat bureaucrats individually as well, like firing all the deep staters in the State Dept.
I want my $5000 check please...
ping
@SenSchumer
Like the Dem voter in “Deliverance” told his victim...”Squeal like a pig”
Let the squealing begin....🥸
Nothing mass YET!
A talking head on Fox said there were 300,000 federal workers living in Virginia.
Cut about 75 percent of them, pause, and see if more cuts are needed.
What a wonderful occasion to awaken to this morning.
It is a start.
Let’s see at least 500,000 of these self-important tools let go.
To many redundant government jobs anyway good deal.
Virginia, DC, and Maryland. Cut them, hard.p> We live in Virginia and directly see the laziness and waste every day.
At least 70% of the Government work force could be cut and all the garbage programs thrown out while the needed programs could be streamlined. Due to so many worthless do-nothing jobs made to pad the Dem voter base so much process and paperwork can be totally eliminated without any effect on the operation of needed programs. It could massively reduced the cost of bureaucratic overhead.
I visited northern Virginia ten years ago and saw the clogged interstate leading to Washington. I think the highway was six or eight lanes and it was awash in traffic two hours in the morning and, in reverse, two hours in the afternoon; a solid mass for 50 miles.
I was absolutely stunned at the flow of wealth on that road. I don't think anyone can really understand our 37 trillion dollar debt until you see with your own eyes the scale of the bureaucracy.
It is not just the payroll costs. To the extent these lawyers and bureaucrats do anything at all they are busy passing regulations to destroy the country.
Keep up the good work.
You have to remember these Fed workers didn’t create themselves. A politician latched on to a cause then beat the drum so he corralled enough voters to get elected or stay elected. Then got the legislation passed that created the “bureaucracy” which hired the workers to manage the “solution the cause demanded”. So if you want to cast blame cast it properly to the politician and the gullible voter.
I can't argue against what you wrote.
Still, if democrats give Trump the opportunity to cut the bureaucracy without 60 Senate votes he should pounce.
Agree mostly!
I'm sure some fed judge will say you can't do that but I'm also sure that that judge can't order federal payments when the Fed has no money.
I'd think that would completely overstep his powers. The judge can just order trillions to be created or debt accepted just because?
Thanks Chuck. Good job and thank you President Trump to see the opportunity. ;-)
Not disagreeing. The point of my original post was that our ire at the federal worker for bloated government was misplaced. Our ire should be directed at the politician and gullible voter who created the problem. The politician is quite happy the blame is laid on the federal worker. That way he escapes it and can posture as their savior. The gullible voter is just along for the ride.
I will argue that the first obligation of any true bureaucrat is to increase the numbers over which he supervises.
That tendency is embedded in the genes.
While politicians create the bureaucratic entities, it is the bureaucrats who insist on creating jobs that may not actually need a separate person
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