Anyone else hoping that the UK Guardian is correct?
US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts
The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.
With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.
Workers preparing to leave government as part of the resignation program – one of several pillars of Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce – have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.
“Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,” a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. “That’s why I left.”
I’m sure there are plenty of people in the federal government who are good people, just there to do their job, who want to help American citizens, to be good public servants. I’m also sure there are lots who love the money, the benefits, the ability to enforce their politics on Americans whether the citizens want that or not.
The total resignation program is set to cost $14.8bn, with 200,000 workers paid their full salary and benefits while on administrative leave for up to eight months, according to a Senate Democrats’ report in July.
Trump officials argue this outlay is worth it. The Office of Personnel Management claimed the one-time costs lower longer-term spending by the federal government. It also criticized job protections of federal civil servants, claiming the government should have a “modern, at-will employment framework like most employers”.
I’m also sure that in most cases the work of the federal government will continue on. There are way too many who are unnecessary, who are redundant, who are just floating through while some other people are actually working. This gives the extras time to be nags and not actually do the mission as established by the Constitution and the Congress, but, their own missions. Those who are left should be shifted to critical areas.
Horrible stuff if you’re a democrat.
Textbook example of a “no-brainer”. Since liberals don’t have functioning brains, why do they fail to see this? It is indeed a conundrum.
So far, “significant changes in the way the federal government operates, including the elimination of over 100 programs, the elimination of over 250,000 federal jobs, the consolidation of over 800 agencies, and the transfer of institutional knowledge to contractors” has significantly streamlined government. Way to go, Mr President!
Of course this was from 1993 to 1998. Much less fanfare than Musk’s DOGE.
Vice-President Al Gore ran the Reinventing Government initiative. You might also recall that the Administration working WITH Congress even balanced the budget!!! For a brief moment we collected MORE than we spent! Good times. Less talk, more action.
It is indeed a CON-undrum.
We expect “no-brainer” actions from Donnie et al.
Donnie’s greatest CON-undrum is two-fold: 1. Can he avoid a gov’t shutdown while screwing over the people and/or 2. Can he blame the Democrats?
Some 50 million Americans can expect to see a huuge increase in insurance premiums unless Congressional Dems can persuade Donnie and the Repubs to reinstate ACA subsidies.
Yes! This is for what I voted!
Or better yet, we could see the end of Obysmalcare completely!
You will likely get your wish!!
More poor people die in the US from poor medical care than die from homicide.
You expressed your feelings that we should let poor people die.
We SHOULD end the ACA and create a health care system similar to Israel, or Finland, France, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, Japan, Sweden etc. All better and MUCH cheaper than our inefficient and byzantine system!! But the ruling party in America prefers that our poor – especially Black, women and Hispanic suffer and die.
Does Mr Dana have government subsidized health insurance?
Get the horribly inefficient government out of Health Care and watch premiums drop. How many billions are wasted on benefits for hundreds? Ask doctors which government mandates drive up their costs of doing business. Get rid of the mandates.
The horribly inefficient governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Israel, Japan, etc deliver high quality healthcare to their residents for an average of about half what our “inefficient” public-private system does.
Health expenditures per person in the U.S. were $13,432 in 2023. The average amount spent on health per person in comparable countries ($7,393) is about half of what the U.S. spends per person.
Fat jeff,
No, you are wrong.