“Things are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse” as far as DOGE influenced terminations go

[1srelluc]

Tracking federal layoffs 2025: Impacted agencies include IRS, FAA, TSA and more

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have taken to the federal workforce, enacting layoffs and terminations. Here are some impacted agencies.

www.usatoday.com

Looks like the DOGE Boys have some more work to do to keep up with Clinton.

During his time in office, U.S. President Bill Clinton oversaw the termination of 377,000 federal employees.

According to testimony from Elaine Karmarck, the director of Clinton's initiative, it eliminated 426,200 federal roles between January 1993 and September 2000.

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Clinton initiative cut over 377K federal jobs in the 1990s. It's not comparable to Trump's effort

Social media posts claimed Donald Trump and Elon Musk had simply "learned from the master" in their attempts to cut government jobs.

www.snopes.com

Now that was a time when most fed employees were right-leaning.

So, it seems to me that the only thing different is the tactics used to get around the roadblocks an ever more left-leaning congress put in place since the Clinton Initiative to protect fed workers from being laid off/terminated.

 

[konradv]

Tracking federal layoffs 2025: Impacted agencies include IRS, FAA, TSA and more

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have taken to the federal workforce, enacting layoffs and terminations. Here are some impacted agencies.

www.usatoday.com

Looks like the DOGE Boys have some more work to do to keep up with Clinton.

During his time in office, U.S. President Bill Clinton oversaw the termination of 377,000 federal employees.

According to testimony from Elaine Karmarck, the director of Clinton's initiative, it eliminated 426,200 federal roles between January 1993 and September 2000.

​

Clinton initiative cut over 377K federal jobs in the 1990s. It's not comparable to Trump's effort

Social media posts claimed Donald Trump and Elon Musk had simply "learned from the master" in their attempts to cut government jobs.

www.snopes.com

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Now that was a time when most fed employees were right-leaning.

So, it seems to me that the only thing different is the tactics used to get around the roadblocks an ever more left-leaning congress put in place since the Clinton Initiative to protect fed workers from being laid off/terminated.

Scalpel, not a chainsaw!

 

[Manonthestreet]

Chainsaw

 

[1srelluc]

Scalpel, not a chainsaw!

I was thinking more like this:

 

[The Duke]

Scalpel, not a chainsaw!

Meat Axe!

 

[Woodznutz]

I was thinking more like this:

That is an amazing machine that can reduce a tree to a pile of sawdust in minutes.

 

[JGalt]

Scalpel, not a chainsaw!

We already saw what a scalpel did to Joe Biden's brain.

Those surgeons would have been better off using a chainsaw.

 

[1srelluc]

IRS workers 'paralyzed' by DOGE's cuts claim Musk reshaping the agency

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has stormed into the IRS, slashing thousands of jobs, shutting down taxpayer assistance centers, and demanding access to sensitive taxpayer data.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Woodznutz]

IRS workers 'paralyzed' by DOGE's cuts claim Musk reshaping the agency

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has stormed into the IRS, slashing thousands of jobs, shutting down taxpayer assistance centers, and demanding access to sensitive taxpayer data.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

 

[1srelluc]

Unfortunately, when you owe $37T you have to make some decisions about what/where to spend money on.

The .gov does not add value, it's always a net drain so it makes good sense to pare it down.

 

[konradv]

We already saw what a scalpel did to Joe Biden's brain.

Those surgeons would have been better off using a chainsaw.

YAWN! Unresponsive.

 

[konradv]

Meat Axe!

OK, let’s talk about Pure Food and Drugs. Are they on the chopping block? Are we going back to snake oil salesmen and The Jungle?

 

[konradv]

I was thinking more like this:

MAGA lives in those trees too.

 

[The Duke]

OK, let’s talk about Pure Food and Drugs. Are they on the chopping block? Are we going back to snake oil salesmen and The Jungle?

We're getting toxins out of our food supply. FD & C Red No. 5, for instance.
Hydrogenated oils and high-fructose corn syrup for others.

 

[1srelluc]

MAGA lives in those trees too.

You live in a tree?

Maybe that explains why you are a bit squirrely.

 

[konradv]

You live in a tree?

Maybe that explains why you are a bit squirrely.

I’m not MAGA. My kin came down from the trees.