According to the internal memoranda [SEE HERE], OMB Director Russ Vought is planning for a large-scale reduction in force (RIF), with many of the federal employees released being terminated permanently.
The Democrat triggered “govt shut down” plays nicely into the plans of President Trump and OMB Director Vought. Democrats hope they have a politically advantageous position to take in shutting down the government; however, the position of Trump and Vought is to downsize government. The shutdown expedites the downsizing.
President Trump was asked about the scope impact to federal employees, during a brief impromptu press availability, as he departs the White House going to Quantico. WATCH:
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It’s 12:08 A.M. October 1 and, unless I find any story of a last minute deal, the federal government is now shutdown.
Horrors, the world’s gonna blow!
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1973237290471399499
Could it possibly be that the Demonrats are now unwittingly the party of fiscal austerity?????? LOL
I know you’re being sarcastic.
I hope the folks who haven’t thought it through don’t feel that Ds adding 1 trillion to the budget expenditure for illegal alien healthcare, which is what they wanted in order to keep the government merrily rolling along, is fiscally conservative.
Heaven help us!
Now it’s time to shrink the size of Government! That’s what I voted for!
We’re visiting Barcelona right now and I noticed the Sun kept coming up in the sky here (after midnight EST)….they were able to serve a great breakfast at the Hyatt hotel….the Thyssen elevators still worked (using EU electricity); we’ll see if our cruise ship will be able to float when we try to take a bus there at noon….
Republicans were always to blame for past shut downs. “Presstitutes” Rush’s description had a huge part in the misinformation. This one, not so much. Dems reasoning is out of touch with the American people. We don’t want more subsidies & wasteful spending.
President Trump has brilliantly exposed dems as the pro crime, pro illegal, pro war, pro trans freak and pro voter fraud party.
None of those have wide spread support with our populace.
More Americans each day are seeing how the Dem party does not respect or protect them or their interests.
Now if the danged RINO’s would get off their butts and finish redistricting, we might actually have a decent majority in 2026.
I still pray this admiration can get a census through as all these illegals are booted.
Hoosiertruthfan, your first sentence would make an excellent poster sign!
———-DEMOCRATS———-
PRO CRIME
PRO ILLEGALS
PRO WAR
PRO TRANS FREAKS
PRO VOTER FRAUD
Thank you. 😊
I think there is a reason President Trump touts his policies as common sense.
Americans are tired of our tax dollars funding nonsense.
If it would be in the interest of harmony and less work in reviewing every comment,
I shall no longer offer my thoughts here.
I am no one but a retired senior citizen who should probably just go about living my best life, rather than force my unwelcome presence upon others.
Thank you for the conversation I was invited to participate in.
Go with God.
I could have written this and should have many months ago. Blessings to you as well.
It’ll be interesting to find out if OMB already has the RIF orders written.
Trump does need to be a little careful. Let’s say they terminate all 750,000 employees who are nonessential today (which is only 25% of the workforce, btw). That 750,000 people in the unemployment line. 750,000 mortgage payments that maybe don’t get made. There’s an economic impact that extends beyond the govt like local businesses. The coffee shop near the Army base for example.
It’s not like all these new tariffs and investments have turned into jobs that people can apply for. That’s going to take years to develop. Though perhaps only 30%, many are our friends and neighbors, military veterans, etc. the meat ax will wind up amputating people who are not the enemy.
Whereas, maybe some strategic focus – FBI, EPA, DOJ, CIA for example – for cuts would be ideal.
The numbers do illustrate how the Government Party has reinforced itself against the “shutdown” weapon. Most govt employees will still go to work today.
Since when do I have to feel bad about the local coffee shop taking a hit?
See my comment on government contractors below. Some of the small subcontracting companies on that project will likely go out of business if this goes much longer. One example org lost over 75% of its revenue in one day. This is for work that is already funded but just stuck due to lack of appropriations bills. That’s one example of one org on one contract.
It’s not “funded” until there is an appropriation. You can’t obligate funds on a contract you don’t have. if the period of performance was through 30 Sep, then sure, you can’t do anything after that without a funded contract mod.
If they are non essential employees, we don’t need them. Get rid of them.
If no one has thought about it, today would be a perfect day to send all of the Obama/Biden/Clinton/Dimm embeds at FBI/CIA/DOS/DOW/ETC. all packing.
I hope DNI Gabbard has a list ready.
Schumer and cohorts are betting all in on something big happening (CIA induced disaster)
and a media barrage of negative 24/7 coverage
There will be legal challenges here of course. I’m sure the OMB has done its homework but, in the past, reductions in force (RIF – permanent versus temporary shutdown furloughs) have been tied to reduced Congressional funding in specific areas, not to the appropriations of those funds. They’ve already made agreements with roughly 154,000 to leave (with severance, etc.) based on reductions in the Big Beautiful Bill. So this may not be easy.
Roughly 100,000 of those with agreements had their last day yesterday as agreed (end of the fiscal year) which is confusing things for some out there (Trump just laid off another 100,000!!). The other 54,000 or so are scheduled to leave at the end of the calendar year.
One thing lost in all this is the effect on government contractors. Many of whom, like me at my contract that ended over this, are far from dead wood … I worked harder there than in the public sector. Because of the lack of an appropriations bill, that contract had to reduce 73% of its workforce, even though the feds said the contract was funded — Congress is so inept now they can’t even get the money to those they want it to go to. This was over 7 weeks ago, with the other issue being the contract is also headed for a 5 year re-compete. So a lot of people are basically unemployed due to how broken Congress is. This is not a one-off. I’ve heard it in other areas. While I voted for this at some level, there is a lot of pure chaos within the areas of the federal government where this work is occurring. If you see some of the systems/areas impacted it can make you wonder about the big hammer approach.
Fire all the government workers and replace them with H-1Bs at 1/3 to 1/5 the salary. Just like was done to me 3 times.
out!! out!! keep his coat!!