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“They wanted to show they were gutting the government, but there was no thought about what parts might be worth keeping,” said one FDA staffer who was fired and rehired. “Now it feels like it was all just a game to them.”

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    19 hours ago

    They did exactly what they set out to do. Bust everything and then have a fuck up to serve as the fall guy.

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    There was no mistake. The damage he’s done to the US has been fully intentional. He’s a domestic enemy of the US carrying out attacks on our nation, not just a clueless politician blundering his way from mishap to another.

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    It’s almost like putting the guy who famously, thoughtlessly fired way too many important people when he took over Twitter… In charge of doing the same thing to illegally fire people from government agencies was a bad idea.

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      10 hours ago

      Remember, Trump wanted this. Don’t blame Elon Musk when you should be blaming all of them together, and especially the president who had control.

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      23 hours ago

      That’s too many words. What are you, woke? Just tell me if it’s going to make America great again.

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    The Washington Bezos headline is barf-inducing in it’s soft-pedaling trumps role in the fuckup it’s now “trying to ‘fix’”. I feel dirty linking to them. That shop is really fucked up.

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      It’s curious to see people call Trump Putin’s bitch while a guy like Bezos - who has utterly supplicated himself to Trump at every opportunity - gets such light treatment.

      Also… by the transitive property of bitchness… is Amazon working for the Russians?

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    I know people in charge of staffing various departments at various military bases, and they have hundreds of open positions they can’t fill because the people who took the buyout are still technically in those positions.

    So they’re double fucked. These are critical positions like medical and mechanical.

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      24 hours ago

      and they have hundreds of open positions they can’t fill because the people who took the buyout are still technically in those positions.

      Even after DRP, we get the spots back at a 4:1 ratio…

      So if 12 took it, 3 can be hired

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          On a long enough timeline this is just a speed bump

          No matter what trump tries, he won’t match the number of separations under Clinton, and we won’t end up with a lower number after

          They’re both pretty much the same, coincidentally enough we had just gotten back up to pre-Clinton number of feds, so the comparison is easy.

          But because a Republican did it instead of a Dem, we’re likely to bounce back much faster this time.

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              Who knows, maybe you have more decades of federal service than me which incentivized you to learn more about past events affecting the federal workforce…

              But I’m often right about this stuff.

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                There’s a shit ton of nuance that you’re leaving out. According to the article you posted, it took 6 months just for the review process to see what could be done. Then years later for that number to be reached. Even states in the article that both aren’t similar.

                It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s that you’re presenting it poorly.

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                  According to the article you posted, it took 6 months just for the review process to see what could be done. Then years later for that number to be reached. Even states in the article that both aren’t similar.

                  The purpose isn’t just similar, it’s exactly the same: reduce the federal workforce.

                  Your “argument” is that Clinton did it better, which is literally what I just said:

                  trump won’t match those numbers, because Feds trusted the programs under Clinton. No one left in the Fed trusts trump to hold up his end of any programs.

                  Under trump it’s been an absolute shit show with no one having any idea what is going on. Under Clinton it was expansion of existing programs after investigating the situation.

                  Like, you’re saying I’m wrong but you’re agreeing with me and claiming I’m explaining it poorly?

                  I don’t think that’s what happening here. So I’m going to take steps from it happening again later.

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    18 hours ago

    How much more money are we going to spend re-hiring for these roles? I refuse to think they’ve “saved” us anything.

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    1 day ago

    What many in the admin may want to do is auction which parts they keep. Have all the interested parties give funds to officials to keep that particular vital part up and running. Top 100 wins their department back.

    What I suspect is this may be happening behind the scenes; I imagine some newly reinstated departments will have sponsors?