Thank you Mr. President! If we can't shut the whole thing down, this will have to do. I don't need to have my great grandchildren paying for the debts of a bloated, ineffective federal government.

Remember when the "non-essential" gov workers were told to stay home? Did anyone stop to ask "WHY!" we have 'non-essential" gov. workers in the first place.

Whole departments need to be dismantled, maybe they can learn to code...

Reducing spending and debt absolutely will result in a healthier more resilient economy!

Nobody wants anyone to loose their jobs but this is done all the time in the private sector.
If a company is not making enough money to sustain, cuts are usually made.
People loose jobs when companies shut down or change ownership.
You want to protest a company that supports something you dont like, it hurts the company, they make cuts, and someone on the bottom level looses their job.
No guarantees except for your skills and performance that can land you a better job.
Why should the government be responsible for guaranteeing you a job when it doesn't for anyone else?

@Charity You didnt understand your sources correctly. There are not 2.3 million being let go. There are only 2.3 million total federal workers, not including postal workers who are in a separate classification as the USPS is independently operated.

Your sources actually say 75,000 accepted voluntary buyouts. Another 220,000 probationary workers (on the job <1yr) are targeted to have their jobs eliminated.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/03/01/federal-worker-data-visualized-as-firings-layoffs-continue/80753788007/

Per the above USA Today article ...

There are another ~500,000 being looked at for possible cuts.



Keep in mind .. There are federal court law suits filed challenging ALL of the federal job eliminations.

Virtually nothing you stated about the articles you posted links to is correct. Maybe you need a new hobby? I don't think this is your thing.

There’s more than 2.3 million federal workers ?

Can’t help but feel a lot of things the gubberment run should be civilian things anyway

And you don’t see that as a bloated problem big brother?

2.3 million represents the total federal workforce. The amount cut will be far less. However, you could cut 80% of the federal jobs, and nobody would notice. Luckily, the private sector is hiring. And won't that be nice when people are being paid from the private sector dollars instead of tax dollars.

Nobody is working those jobs. There are empty offices and paychecks are sent out to people who are NOT working.

That's a pretty good start to balancing the budget.

No USEFUL member of government has been laid off.

Unfortunate but necessary. The U.S. can't go on increasing the debt indefinitely or there will eventually be a total economic collapse, and none of our money will be worth the paper its' printed on, then this country will resemble a "Road Warrior" movie!

@BrandNewMan there are 2.4 million federal workers.
That is a million more than the 2.3 that is subject to lose their jobs

2.3 million emails were sent off to 2.3 million federal employees. 1 million of those federal employees responded back.

Why do you think Elon sent those emails, for them to send him a list of their accomplishments, a bunch of hogwash. He is after their jobs, just like he did Twitter, he's going to the government


Did you read the post I said expected, expected and I did read the articles and that's what the article say.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/reports-publications/federal-civilian-employment/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-workers-face-musk-deadline-explain-work-week-119398774#:~:text=There%20are%20roughly%202.4%20million,the%20Washington%2C%20D.C.%20metro%20area.

https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/

You know what, I don't care what you think think, think as you choose. I post what I post to let people who may not know learn of what's going on.

70% of the federal workforce gone. We can only hope.

Your headline is not correct. There are only about 2.3 M civilian federal jobs .. how TAF can that many be cut??

There is not currently a recession

Geez the liberal challenge w facts

Half of those workers don't exist.

Hell yeah, it helps the economy (although the Adolf Biden Recession will be another matter). Saving trillions of dollars. Balancing the budget. People getting to keep more of their hard earned money. That has ALWAYS helped the economy.

Thing is, the Adolf Biden economy is the worst in history. His way has failed.

2.3 million new entrants to Trump's 'human designed' lower class who will be lining up for jobs at minimum-wage paying fast food restaurants.

Losing their homes, their families, their peace of mind, their self-worth. All while Trump spends more time golfing than Presidenting

Big boom for the civilian sector

Once the greed hoards are equitably distributed, all will be wel, honorable method overrides oppressive tacticsl

The good thing about the way it's been done, it's BOTH sides, but then the nutjobs role out comments like:

"MAGA supporters, are you happy now, this is what you voted for"

If the roles were reversed, they'd try and make sure it's only MAGA voters that get fired