Efforts to slash
The next stage of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce is underway.
Agency leaders have been told to begin preparations for large-scale layoffs, known as reductions in force, or RIFs, under an executive order President Donald Trump signed Tuesday. They will work with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to carry out the mandate, expanding the role of the billionaire’s team in reshaping federal government operations.
Titled “Implementing The President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative,” the executive order also severely limits federal departments’ ability to bring on more staffers and mandates that agency heads closely coordinate with their DOGE representatives on future hiring plans. Once the hiring freeze that Trump put in place is lifted, agencies will only be allowed to replace one of every four employees who leave and hiring will be restricted to the highest-need areas.
Yay. A week or two more and it will be as if the New Deal had never happened.
The order specifies that the reductions would not apply to public safety, immigration enforcement or law enforcement.
You know – the stuff that matters. Frivolous crap like public health, education, weather, national parks, the environment, labor, global warming, poverty, opportunity, disaster relief, and the like can just die off. Enjoy the ride.
For some reason I keep thinking of Musk is an incarnation of Milo Minderbinder.
Nope, Milos activities provided benefits to his co workers, his equals, not just to himself.
Musk is more Mussolini ushering in the Corporate State. May he meet the same fate.