A reporter asked the president what responsibility he felt for the civil servants who had lost their jobs during Wednesday’s Oval Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin.
“I feel very badly, but many of them don’t work at all,” Trump replied just one day after cutting nearly half of the Education Department’s staff,
”Many of them never showed up to work. Many of them, many of them never showed up to work," he repeated.
The president insisted that the job cuts are targeted at “the people that aren’t working or are not doing a good job,” a message echoed by the department’s Secretary, Linda McMahon.
“What we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat,” she said after announcing the staff cuts.
Trump and his billionaire buddy Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fired tens of thousands of federal employees in their crusade to reduce the size of the government and weed out “waste.”
The world’s richest man has repeatedly suggested that federal workers are not working hard enough, even though The Washington Post found that federal workers usually work an average of 43 hours a week, the most of any class of worker.
How do you know someone is not doing their job when you don't even know what their job is?
“I feel very badly, but many of them don’t work at all,” Trump replied just one day after cutting nearly half of the Education Department’s staff,
”Many of them never showed up to work. Many of them, many of them never showed up to work," he repeated.
The president insisted that the job cuts are targeted at “the people that aren’t working or are not doing a good job,” a message echoed by the department’s Secretary, Linda McMahon.
“What we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat,” she said after announcing the staff cuts.
Trump and his billionaire buddy Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fired tens of thousands of federal employees in their crusade to reduce the size of the government and weed out “waste.”
The world’s richest man has repeatedly suggested that federal workers are not working hard enough, even though The Washington Post found that federal workers usually work an average of 43 hours a week, the most of any class of worker.
How do you know someone is not doing their job when you don't even know what their job is?
