Additionally, a memo released ahead of a cabinet meeting called for a “significant reduction” in the federal workforce but did not specify numbers. Federal agencies have been directed to submit downsizing plans by March 13—just one day before the current government funding deadline. - ThreadSky

altnps.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Additionally, a memo released ahead of a cabinet meeting called for a “significant reduction” in the federal workforce but did not specify numbers. Federal agencies have been directed to submit downsizing plans by March 13—just one day before the current government funding deadline.

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lisajo31.bsky.social•1 day ago

137 Bonneville Power Admin (DOE) employees have been fired so far. BPA is NOT tax payer funded. Ops are paid for by the sale of electrical transmission to rate payers. For 41 years, BPA has paid the Treasury to repay taxpayers’ investments. BPA has done this for the past 41 years.NO money was saved.

lestatbp.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, it only takes a minute for the by-now superintelligent AI to tell them how to proceed, right?

That's efficiency. 🙄

altnps.bsky.social•2 days ago

But even if every federal worker were fired, it wouldn’t make a dent in the massive deficit increase Trump is proposing. The total federal employee payroll amounts to $271 billion—nowhere near enough to offset the trillions being added to the debt. So what’s the purpose here?

libraryanna.bsky.social•1 day ago

The federal payroll is less than 7% of the budget.

reiveronethree.bsky.social•2 days ago

They're trying to prove government is broken by breaking it.

"See, stupid lib! Told ya government can't do anything right! Nobody even works there!"

lp7.bsky.social•2 days ago

And then, in a spectacular two step, they will identify "essential services" like air traffic controllers and weather reports (which rich people like), and hand contracts to cronies to purchase the services. Ensuring we pay more, cronies make money, and they gather favors.

lp7.bsky.social•23 hours ago

One day later (Verizon is at the start of a multi year contract to replace old systems)...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/27/elon-musk-starlink-faa-safety-claims.html

andyschrier.bsky.social•2 days ago

This right here. ☝️The plan is to cripple services in order to privatize

harrysmith007.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bingo!! Privatize everything is what they want. Already happened/happening: privatized prisons, schools, next the FAA and post office. Also let’s rob Ft Knox and set up a cryptocurrency backed by gold

asocialstray.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can already see Amazon replacing the post, making humans work 80 hour weeks for tipped wages, charging $5 to send a letter unless you're paying a $500 Prime Buy, and crippling small business competition, unless you can fork over $5000 for Prime Sell, so you can pay $5 to ship a pin.

mikeyuke.bsky.social•1 day ago

It goes beyond privatizing, Elon and Friends want a corporate monarchy. The DNC has theories about what is going on but they aren't talking about it. Good summary in this report circulating behind the scenes. https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a

jrbjr.bsky.social•2 days ago

Plus, if we ever have sane people in office again, just returning the govt to the shape it was in will look like a major expansion

rinneofdusk.bsky.social•2 days ago

this has been their plan for decades. shrink government so they can drown it in the bathtub.

peatmossie.bsky.social•2 days ago

It dawned on me this is all from a temper tantrum because he was soundly defeated in 2020. He and the ketamine addict figured out how to cheat this time, AND bragged about during his rally speechs.

asocialstray.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Republicans decided if the country was "cheating" on their supremacy by electing a black man for president, the only choice left was to beat it to death. To regain Shitler's honor.

peatmossie.bsky.social•2 days ago

Now as punishment for rejecting his lying ass he is "punishing" the US by destroying our govt. I'm tending to believe the "Krasnov" theory

centerfortruth.bsky.social•1 day ago

The purpose is to make the super rich even richer, and to cripple government to the point where they have absolute power over it.

phred369.bsky.social•1 day ago

So the very rich can become richer… dtrumpf does not care about you.. remember that

stedithstein.bsky.social•1 day ago

Religion always comes before money. We need an African pope

asocialstray.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trillionaires. They'll siphon all the money employees should be making to the rich, using AI to pretend to be doing the same job.

Then sell you on neoslavery once capitalism shuts down.

federalistanger.bsky.social•2 days ago

doxiemom2.bsky.social•2 days ago

The point is to destroy democracy.

kiriosity.bsky.social•1 day ago

👆 this is the point. The authors of P2025 don't just believe government is inefficient, but *democracy* itself needs to be replaced for an authoritarian model. Collapsing it all is just the first step.

doxiemom2.bsky.social•2 days ago

Look up Curtis Yarvin and his ties to Vance and Theil. You’ll have your answer. Money is just a smokescreen.

pattylovesbooks.bsky.social•1 day ago

phoenix-chick.bsky.social•2 days ago

Privatize *everything*

phoenix-chick.bsky.social•2 days ago

Along with keeping us poor and uneducated.

stephenhasideas.bsky.social•2 days ago

Devalue the dollar enough to justify making DOGEcoin the national currency then making X the primary Treasury remittance tool.

harrysmith007.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s why they want the gold in Ft Knox. To use as a standard for their fake “currency”

krbranco.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the salient point in all of this madness. Please keep repeating it!

sid-eschenbach.bsky.social•2 days ago

Distraction. That's the purpose. Nothing else. Blind the rubes with bullshit.

theeagles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump will end programs for the needy so he can give tax breaks to his donors!

thebronzedragon.bsky.social•1 day ago

The US is paying more in interest on its debt than the entirety of the defense budget. The result of kicking the can down the road for decades until it falls off a cliff.

poyntelle.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cruelty.

protestspb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Read books how Bolsheviks destroyed Russian army from inside prior our similar Capitol riot. Read about our Volunteer army of patriots and betrayal of the West (inclunding the United States) too. It might be very useful in coming years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Army

katiewisniewski.bsky.social•1 day ago

The purpose is to confuse and scare all the federal government employees! It also goes after the thirty or so percent of Veterans that work in the Civil Service programs 😊🇺🇸🍀🇺🇦☘️💙

chillindays.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ideological takeover. Less oversight. Performance art.

wildmamabear.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pure evil

aerinethewiz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Purpose is to make billionaires even richer. At the expense of regular, working (or not working by recent events) people. The American dream now only applies to the rich.

whirledbizarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the angle that we’re not seeing. All these cuts and closings will lead to a deficit reduction, right? Or at least pay for the tax cuts for the rich, right? We don’t need to raise the debt ceiling, right? Alas, no. It’s just fucking people over for propaganda.

joannabailey27.bsky.social•1 day ago

I personally think ElonMusk is trying to roll out the first AI government. He’s learning all the data needed for each department and his “auditors” are writing code. Another gov contract for himself. For those depts that it’s not feasible (in his own mind), they will privatize.

davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is just destroying our country. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-pledge-allegiance-to-flag-of-united.html?m=1

hpsc24.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://youtu.be/7xkgoRkC3pc?si=QmdEK1UU-QtoJDaM

andy-angove.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think the purpose here is to destroy government as we know it.

wearehere.bsky.social•3 hours ago

To steal more money from the taxpayers by inventing lies.💙

schimelsal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Perhaps it’s all moot. Once the coup is complete taxes are unnecessary. We will work for them. They will be our landlords, grocers, & undertakers. No healthcare. No schools. No benefits. No vaxxes. No infrastructure. A gigantic wasteland like russia, most uninhabited or uninhabitable.

non-trumpie.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have been driven to the extreme dystopian vision myself. Mad and ready to make this NOT be a reality for our children's futures!!

cargobiker530.bsky.social•1 day ago

It makes sense if you assume Trump & Musk are Russian Assets leashed by evidence of crimes so horrific they would be treated like Nicolae Ceaușescu or the Mussolinis.

None of what they are doing is building anything.

cronewisdom.bsky.social•1 day ago

To line their overstuffed pockets, of course. It's the great fleecing of America. The grand grift. #resist

kjscorner.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Elon's pockets are getting full.

john9256.bsky.social•1 day ago

Charge cards needed to restock toilet paper, emergency medical supplies, and junior ranger badges have been reduced to $1 spend limit. Park staff are being setup to fail.

awgyetvan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Chaos that enables them to line their pockets.

antiquecarguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

The cruelty. It’s always about the cruelty.

onlyfedz.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is wasteful, just look at his being.

mwcoder1967.bsky.social•1 day ago

Chaos, destruction, and control.

susana66.bsky.social•1 day ago

While all our attention is on these outrageous cuts, the administration is busy feathering the oligarchies nests.

teddychunk.bsky.social•1 day ago

With eagle feathers

kraigpeck.bsky.social•1 day ago

The purpose is to weaken and demolish as much of the federal government as possible in order to privatize the necessary functions via private contracts. These will be contracts with Musk and Trump‘s companies and allied companies who have paid into one of Trump‘s money laundering schemes.

cstarangel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Data mining. Keeping a back door for access. The ability to change to bit coin instantly
The ability to install AI.

emmcats.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's like when I cancel my Spotify to help increase my savings

dmpj.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cruelty, unabashed cruelty

reezenphd.bsky.social•1 day ago

To destroy democracy.

usdem.bsky.social•1 day ago

Careless spending and subsidies FAR outweigh the federal payroll budget. Is our government inefficient? Yes. Is it becoming more efficient by laying off its workforce? God, no.
The layoffs are just part of the grand distraction.

arresttraitors.bsky.social•1 day ago

The purpose is to get rid of what they call "liberal" people and put in Trump people.

blueskypeg.bsky.social•1 day ago

💯

mcolleen1982.bsky.social•2 days ago

Control

justjustie.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is pure theater. It lets maga pretend to be tough guys and paint Dems as wasteful.

They’ll cave in March and offer Dems a deal.

Dems: play their game, negotiate, pretend to back cuts. At the last moment pull all support and do a massive news conference outing magas plan to gut benefits

davesimmonsgfx.bsky.social•2 days ago

To destroy our government. Why won’t people say it?

thesummerday.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Sadly he's being pretty clear that he intends on turning national parks into land for private logging/mining interests.

lor-af.bsky.social•15 hours ago

they want to break the government. once it's broken they'll turn on each other.

1voice.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Isn't it obvious? I think he'll set his sights on congress before too long - maybe starting with the Senate (which he's been largely bypassing anyway).
We may get to see who has more will to hold onto power - a greedy, corrupt felon evading justice; or 53 greedy, corrupt Republicans?

kgmillerannoyed.bsky.social•1 day ago

To make it look like Trumpie's doing what he said he'd do during election time. And it gives Muskie even more power.

jewdakris.bsky.social•1 day ago

Holy shit, they are gonna raise our taxes and funnel it directly to them. That's their scam isn't it. They decided to fire everyone, raise the taxes on whoever keeps their job and no matter what everything goes in their pockets. No matter what the situation is they steal every dime.

realfoxmueller.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ideology. Cylons.

stephencottrill.bsky.social•1 day ago

Control! Every Narcissist wants it!

defnotrachel.bsky.social•1 day ago

The purpose is to scare people.

bthompsonschreiber.bsky.social•1 day ago

😡😞

javajj.bsky.social•1 day ago

To paralyze and terrify any resistance

thatlostsockk.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s their plan

rcnichol.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sell off buildings?

kdjs-1.bsky.social•2 days ago

damonoleary.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know the answer. It's to loot America.

protestspb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Converting into non-united states of Russia

four-torpedoes.bsky.social•1 day ago

We know it's to eliminate opposition to everything bad he wants to do to our natural resources, social programs, and oversight.

harrowedsparrow.bsky.social•1 day ago

Destruction of the administrative state.

ultranova13.bsky.social•2 days ago

They want to bankrupt the country, destroy all independent agencies, and privatize as much as possible. It’s creative destruction AKA the shock doctrine. They want to default on debt, they want the dollar debased or destroyed, they don’t want any services that can’t be privatized. It’s sociopathic

celamma.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The purpose is to completely destroy this country.

hippygeekgirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Haven't you heard? Foreign millionaires who want to become Americans are going to pay down that debt $5million at a time!

jjkettlewell.com•2 days ago

The purpose is and has always been tax cuts for the rich and less regulations and enforcement, period. They want to wreck everything that works so they can prove it doesn't work and isn't worth spending money on, then blame it on the Democrats. Unfortunately, stupid people buy it.

smkat.bsky.social•1 day ago

A friend in Defense heard an 8% RIF per year for the next 3-4 years. If you are not involved in 1. Immigration reduction, 2. Drug smuggling reduction, 3. China defense, or 4. a US missile defense shield, your position is at risk,

wenchofsauce.bsky.social•1 day ago

Once they've fired everyone and realize there is actual work to be done, what are the odds it will all be farmed out in bloated contracts to companies run by billionaires, hmmmm?

bluelenny13.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's a con job

viddef.bsky.social•2 days ago

Project 2025

iimh.bsky.social•2 days ago

The real purpose is to cripple government so that when things break and emergencies happen, private enterprise (all GOP donors, of course) swoop in to save the day by doing the essential jobs government can no longer do because of DOGE and other incompetence. It's a cash grab.

beckyklunk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cruelty?

dark-marmot.bsky.social•2 days ago

My fear here is all these irresponsible cuts to jobs that are supposedly savings, will be eventually back filled by fewer staff, but only by admitted Trump loyalists. All must kiss the ring.

thesusanito.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seeing NPS workers at the Statue of Liberty brought me to tears today.

knightsexemplar.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s fine, there just talking about a 65% reduction in EPA staff 😐

staystrong1776.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cam, a National Park Service resource manager and archaeologist, worked to protect cultural and natural resources, ensure legal compliance, and educate visitors. Despite positive performance reviews, she was fired overnight with no explanation. Listen to her story and share.
https://youtu.be/VEmenogfqaQ?si=sYfq35XsQICywOGd

heartwood451.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have they looked at the nonexistent third woman’s budget and staff? Can they list five bullets of productivity for the American people?

amy-m-mcbride.bsky.social•1 day ago

Looks like 65% for epa 😭

amy-m-mcbride.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is only a savings of 14% of epas budget and 0.02% of the total US budget. Putting 11000 people on unemployment for a measly 0.02% savings. Musks contacts account for 0.6% of the total budget. Why not cut some of them?

lizwruk.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's the "Reduction in Force" or "RIF". It sounds like everyone will hear more about it in the coming days as they begin to implement it, or that's my hope. The way things are going unreported these days is alarming, and we can't let this be another "one of those things".

beckywilliams1141.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t know how to fight for the federal employees. What should we do?

itssewquiet.bsky.social•1 day ago

8% of personnel to be RIF'd.

thesmileymonkey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here’s front page ping me

petiteouiseau.bsky.social•1 day ago

They should all boycott that. Create a little chaos.

peatmossie.bsky.social•2 days ago

The house just voted to delete Medicaid. You won't see that word in the bill. They hid it by demanding cutting the budget of the department it is run under $88 billion or so....evil lying bastards

peatmossie.bsky.social•2 days ago

Beware the Ides of March Ceasar

swrx.bsky.social•1 day ago

The monthly share of total employment by federal workers has been falling for decades (bumps are census years). Who wasn’t already sick of “downsizing” & “rightsizing” from the early 2000s? They make statements of fact that just aren’t true and go unchecked.

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