Trump's rapid changes in U.S. government stun federal workers

[dalton99a]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-rapid-changes-us-government-stuns-stirs-anxiety-among-federal-workers-2025-01-24/

Trump's rapid changes in U.S. government stun federal workers
By Tim Reid
January 24, 2025 8:16 AM CST

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have acted with stunning speed to begin removing or sidelining hundreds of government workers, while he has also sought to give himself the power to fire hundreds of thousands more.

The Republican president has been in office less than a week but the wrecking ball he has already taken to parts of the U.S. government has sent shock waves through much of America's federal bureaucracy.

At the National Security Council 160 staffers have been sent home. About 20 senior career attorneys at the Justice Department were reassigned. The heads of the U.S. Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration were fired along with other officials.

Government offices focused on workforce diversity are being permanently shuttered, the staff on leave, while a flurry of executive orders overturning Biden administration policy have left many officials uncertain about their futures, their mandate erased by a blunt stroke of Trump's signature Sharpie marker.

Trump said on Tuesday he also plans to fire over 1,000 officials appointed by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden.

During his presidential election campaign Trump frequently pledged to slash the size of government and rid it of bureaucrats deemed insufficiently loyal to his political agenda.

Still, the speed of Trump's swift and coordinated moves targeting workers at a swath of government agencies shocked federal employees in Washington and even public sector unions who had spent months anticipating Trump's arrival.

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We are witnessing a terror campaign

[atreides1]

1. Ironic

How many of those looking at being fired voted for Trump?

The Heritage Foundation was already prepared, the EO's were written soon after he won the election...

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Weird how we were unable to fire even one crooked Postmaster General.

Seems not to happen a lot for us, what the pukes always do.

[dalton99a]

8. No shit.

[JanMichael]

9. Good point. I guess we bring pillows to knife fights.

[pdxflyboy]

5. And they had been telling us for over a year....

Exactly what they were going to do. I remember Steve Bannon saying that when we come back in, we’re gonna tear everything down so fast , your heads are gonna be spinning. You won’t know what hit you.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Shock and awe. It is on purpose.

Federal workers have been very naive.

[Johonny]

4. All these people do jobs

Eventually the lack of them working will be felt. Trump is creating a giant hole in his administration that he has no ability to fill.

[Stuckinthebush]

6. Shocked?

Hell, were they not paying attention? We all knew this was coming day one. I am shocked at nothing this man does. He told us!

[Solly Mack]

7. But he told people this was coming. How are they stunned? With Project 2025/HF guiding him, how is anyone shocked

by the speed of it all?

They carefully planned for this.

People were warned. Repeatedly.

If I tell you fire burns and you still elect to stick your hand in the flames and get burned, what is there to be stunned by?

Besides your refusal to see what is so plainly right in front of you.

It can happen here.
It is happening here.
You are not immune.
You are not safe.

It's that simple.