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Law Trump Officials Fire, Swiftly Rehire, Overseers of U.S. Nuclear Stockpile

Hellowhosthat said:
Immediately firing anyone is ridiculous. You're supposed to look at the full structure and work out exactly what people do before you do that. These guys are trying to do the full government at once and there's no way they're able to understand the scopes of people's roles in that time.
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...and THIS is why nothing is ever done in large bureaucracies. Lets take the first year or two just to start scoping, having meetings and writing reports... yeah, fuck that.

Mistakes are inevitable, as long as they are quickly caught and rectified, it's not a problem and the end result is more than worth it.
 
GhostZ06 said:
Do you know dangerous that shit is? i don't expect intelligence from trump supporters. But they are already insanely understaffed, how is this gonna make things more safe?
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No one cares what retard democrats think. Go protest in your pink pussy hat
 
Contempt said:
...and THIS is why nothing is ever done in large bureaucracies. Lets take the first year or two just to start scoping, having meetings and writing reports... yeah, fuck that.

Mistakes are inevitable, as long as they are quickly caught and rectified, it's not a problem and the end result is more than worth it.
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I think there's a happy medium between a couple of years and a couple of weeks.
 
Contempt said:
Agree to disagree sherbro... bring out the chainsaws.
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Fair enough. I think there could be quite a lot of potential fallout from cutting things you shouldn't have cut and people who are government workers feeling a lack of job security and fucking off to the private sector and leaving a skills void.
 
UberHere said:
No one cares what retard democrats think. Go protest in your pink pussy hat
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Ohhh so im a democrat now, did i hurt you pussy ? You trump lunatics really love putting people in camps and labeling everyone who doesnt agree with your madness.God you fucktards have little to no understanding on how things work or what they do. We aren't a authoritarian nations dip shit. Go stomp around with your nazi flag somewhere else.
 
GhostZ06 said:
Ohhh so im a democrat now, did i hurt you pussy ? You trump lunatics really love putting people in camps and labeling everyone who doesnt agree with your madness.God you fucktards have little to no understanding on how things work or what they do. We aren't a authoritarian nations dip shit. Go stomp around with your nazi flag somewhere else.
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Hellowhosthat said:
Fair enough. I think there could be quite a lot of potential fallout from cutting things you shouldn't have cut and people who are government workers feeling a lack of job security and fucking off to the private sector and leaving a skills void.
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Like when Elon fired 80% of the workforce of Twitter and everything kept running just fine?

...I think it's safe to say these lifelong government leeches require quite a bit LESS job security from personal experience.
 
ShadowRun said:
Nice to see correct action and accountability happening. I remember the Afghan disastrous withdraw, no one was held accountable and lives were actually lost due to poor planning of logistics.

Then Biden and others came out called it a great withdraw and any criticism was placed on Trump, for the record Trump brokered the deal, Biden sat on it was not sure what he was going to do. He didn't follow Trumps plans and had his people make the withdraw plans and how it would go down.
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Heh, I see the full sentence with part-time punctuation team is on duty on this account lately. They still slipped up with "disastrous withdraw" though. It's interesting to know there's at least three shifts.
 
GhostZ06 said:
Do you know dangerous that shit is?
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Do you? Lay out your concerns. Surely you're not just following the lemmings, and are actually informed on this.

What is the big danger that comes from firing people one day, realizing their mistake and hiring them back? Are we all gonna die now?
 
HereticBD said:
Do you? Lay out your concerns. Surely you're not just following the lemmings, and are actually informed on this.

What is the big danger that comes from firing people one day, realizing their mistake and hiring them back? Are we all gonna die now?
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Do you actually understand how dangerous nuclear waste is? Or are you done being a sarcastic prick.
 
HereticBD said:
Do you? Lay out your concerns. Surely you're not just following the lemmings, and are actually informed on this.

What is the big danger that comes from firing people one day, realizing their mistake and hiring them back? Are we all gonna die now?
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Even if people did die, you'd hand wave it away, let's not pretend otherwise.
 

IRS fires 6,000 employees as Trump slashes US government​

By Nathan Layne and Andy Sullivan

  • Cuts are part of Trump's effort to shrink government
  • Judge rules that firings can proceed for now
  • IRS had expanded under Trump's predecessor Biden
Feb 20 (Reuters) - A tearful executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season.

The cuts are part of President Donald Trump's sweeping downsizing effort that has targeted bank regulators, forest workers, rocket scientists and tens of thousands of other government employees. The effort is being led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, Trump's biggest campaign donor.

Labor unions have sued to try to stop the mass firings, but a federal judge in Washington ruled that they can continue for now.
Tens of thousands of federal workers already have been told they do not have a job.

Christy Armstrong, IRS director of talent acquisition, teared up as she announced the layoffs on a phone call and told workers to support each other during a difficult time, according to an employee on the call.
"She was pretty emotional," the source said.

The layoffs are expected to total 6,700, according to a person familiar with the matter, and largely target workers at the agency hired as part of an expansion under Democratic former President Joe Biden, who had sought to expand enforcement efforts on wealthy taxpayers. Republicans have opposed the expansion, arguing that it would lead to harassment of ordinary Americans.

The tax agency now employs roughly 100,000 people, compared with 80,000 before Biden took office in 2021.

"This will ensure that the IRS is not going after the wealthy and is only an agency that's really focused on the low income," said University of Pittsburgh tax law professor, Philip Hackney, a former IRS lawyer. "It's a travesty."

Those fired include revenue agents, customer-service workers, independent specialists who hear appeals of tax disputes, and IT workers, the sources said.

Independent budget analysts had estimated that the staff expansion could boost government revenue and help narrow trillion-dollar budget deficits.
The IRS has taken a more careful approach to downsizing than other agencies, given that it is in the middle of the tax-filing season.

The agency expects to process more than 140 individual returns by the April 15 filing deadline and will retain several thousand workers deemed critical for that task, one source said.

The Trump administration's federal layoffs have focused on workers across the government who are new to their positions and have fewer protections than longer-tenured employees.

ALL 50 STATES​


The dismissals target workers across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., according to people familiar with the matter.
At the agency's Kansas City office, probationary workers found all functions had been disabled on their computers except email, which would deliver their dismissal notices, said Shannon Ellis, a local union leader.

Ellis said she expects around 100 workers to be fired by the end of the day.
"What the American people really need to understand is that the funds that are collected through the Internal Revenue Service - they fund so many programs that we use every day in our society," Ellis told Reuters.

The White House has not said how many of the nation's 2.3 million civil-service workers it wants to fire and has given no numbers on the mass layoffs. Roughly 75,000 took a buyout offer last week.

The campaign has delighted Republicans for culling a federal workforce they view as bloated, corrupt and insufficiently loyal to Trump, while also taking aim at government agencies that regulate big business -- including those that oversee Musk's companies SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab and Neuralink.

"I think our objective is to make sure that the employees that we pay are being productive and effective," White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told reporters.

Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team has also canceled contracts worth about $8.5 billion involving foreign aid, diversity training and other initiatives opposed by Trump.

Both men have set a goal of cutting at least $1 trillion from the $6.7 trillion federal budget, though Trump has said he will not touch popular benefits programs that make up roughly one-third of that total.

Democratic critics have said Trump is exceeding his constitutional authority and hacking away at popular and critical government programs at the expense of legions of middle-class families.

Most Americans worry the cost-cutting could hurt government services, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.
Some agencies have struggled to comply with the rapid-fire directives Trump has issued since taking office a month ago. Workers who oversee U.S. nuclear weapons have been fired and then recalled, while medicines and food exports have been stranded in warehouses by Trump's freeze on foreign aid.
Some workers were told they were fired for poor performance, despite receiving glowing reviews.

Those affected by Trump's purge face an uphill battle if they want to contest their dismissal. A board that handles such disputes has been paralyzed by Trump's effort to control it, and resolution can take months or years.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...s-thursday-trump-downsizing-spree-2025-02-20/
 
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