How the shutdown enabled the Trump administration’s mass firing spree;
The White House is using the government shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of people — furthering the aims of Elon Musk’s DOGE effort earlier this year.
Why it matters: This time the stated focus isn’t efficiency or eliminating fraud. It’s all about shrinking the federal government — and doing away with programs that run counter to the administration’s ideologies.
The big picture: This is the first time an administration has used a shutdown to terminate federal workers.
The firings appear to be in line with the overall goal of bringing the federal government under the president’s control and shrinking its size, as OMB Director Russell Vought laid out in Project 2025.
This is the way.
If only could be done in Canada.
only in the US, petty
I know you meant “pity”.
I thought he meant “pissy”?
“The White House moves will make it harder to attract expert and skilled employees…”
Uh no. If there are any expert and skilled employees working for the government, the get a little bit of bureaucratic experience, and then leave for more lucrative jobs in the private sector.
Major firms are always snapping up the government employees who don’t have the government employee mentality.
Sorry Mike T, got to add context to that. Major firms are snapping up decent government employees to enhance their chances they will know how and who to get on the government contract gravy train. I have yet to meet any bureaucrat, at any level of government that was impressive enough to hire, unless you are in the market for a company prick.
From the first link …
One thing seems clear: This is shift from a professional, nonpartisan civil service. “The foundation of the Civil Service has long been that you select people on their qualifications and not their partisan loyalty,” Bednar says.
Now that Bednar person is a comedian.
One thing that is universal … people in government always vote for more government until they lose their right to vote. Only then does the regret of their actions set in. Professional and nonpartisan my arse.
“This is shift from a professional, nonpartisan civil service.”
No.
The civil service has been taken over by one side. It is no longer non-partisan. It is disingenuous to make something one-sided and then protest that any change will make it one-sided.
It is time for overtly political firings.
The First Goal of government bureaucracy is to GROW the government bureaucracy.
Life in the partisan parasite echo chamber: They’re losing. They know they’re losing. They know we know they’re losing. But they lose anyway, pretending they’re winning, even though we know they know they’re pretending …
Collectivist circular firing Squad, the fringe radicals utterly out of touch with the ground giving way beneath them.
Works for me. Sounds like the best of all exports to Canada. Too bad about our mono-mediocracy “tariff.”
Where we’re to pretend we believe them, buttressed by any hegemonistic hobgoblin hallucination they roll out.
The problem with the firings is that this doesn’t shut down any of the departments or even shrink their powers. A future administration can simply rehire the staff. Not only that, but presumably their budgets remain the same since that’s authorized by Congressional spending bills.
Not enough… even 40,000 out of the nearly 3 million is a start, but more needs to be let go… about $2 trillion worth.