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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Good ridence to a bunch of low energy deep staters!
Shhhh!!!! Let the chips fall, Sir. Please. The dims have ZERO cards. You know it, and we know it.
Well, they do have one card…To …redeploy…to a five star hotel in Napa …to discus things
I think the wine train has already sailed.
The RINOs will find some way to screw this up.
Right! Reach across the aisle!
I’ve been saying this for a week. Let them shut it down and let Russ Vought get to work on downsizing the blob.
Gov’t should always be run with only essential workers. Any federal gov’t employees that aren’t essential are unconstitutional.
It’s not just federal government bloat. Each one of us should also look at our local governments they are full of parasites doing nothing but getting a pay check. Just like their counterparts in DC. Every county, city and state has bloated payrolls in red states as well as blue states.
Open the Books is one way to track some local Government Employees like Superintendents of School Districts, School District IT employees abound. It is a good way for schools, LE, City and County buildings to hire extras and just show them as: IT making x ($90,000) and above much of the time. No way to know what they really do or who the person may be besides a first and last name and the physical building.
Look at your county CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report). That’s where the details are on how much investments and funds they have, most of which they could divest to save taxpayers money…but they won’t, claiming it would hurt their bond rating.
Care to expand upon that last remark? Seems like an opinion rather than a statement of fact. Can’t find that anywhere in my copy of the Constitution.
Would also be nice if you defined “essential” — you and everyone else here applauding the latest round of dismissals.
Here’s my definition — someone who was refused the DOGE bailout. Refused, because his supervisors in D.C. knew how difficult it would be to replace him.
He has advanced law degrees. He practiced before the U.S. Tax Court and brought in hundreds of millions of dollars for the government after suing international corporations who were dodging our tax laws. Yet, on a weekly basis, he was harassed by a DOGE employee half his age, demanding to know what he accomplished each week.
He now works in the private sector. His decision to leave was and still is bittersweet. For years he was quietly proud of being a civil servant. Bringing lost revenue to the government was indeed his way of serving his country. He believed his skill and knowledge and expertise were making a difference.
Shame on everyone here blathering on about “essential” government employees, especially when many of you are basing an opinion solely on that postal worker who misdelivered a package.
When you’re done blathering endlessly about “finding it in the Constitution”, go find me a basis for the Dept of Ed, Energy, Interior, Transportation, NPS, NFS, CIA, FBI, CFPB, Dept of Transportation, FCC, FAA, and your favorite, USPS! There’s many more Mr Genius.
Truth! Bruce.
Get rid of all those departments, bureaus and agencies and commissions.
Postal Service is in the Constitution. Good luck privatizing Air Traffic Control, etc. The FCC would not have been in the Constitution because there were no airwaves to regulate. How about the NRC – where are we putting that?
Beyond that, you’d have Dept of War, the State Dept, and Commerce left along with the USPS. Could we abolish the SSA and CMS? Let’s get rid of SS and Medicare they aren’t in the Constitution.
Our most hated agencies are deemed essential the IC, DOJ, and federal cops. Essential and non-essential aren’t really determinate of need/want/ or constitutionality.
I agree, however, most of us do post our opinions…bill
That “someone who was refused the DOGE bailout” can cry us a river.
If “he” was such a superstar revenue man, maybe he wouldn’t have been “harassed” by a DOGE employee half his age, demanding to know what he accomplished each week – it should have been easy.
What a loser…
ABSOLUTELY!
Oh No! Please don’t cut thousands of useless people from the Govt payroll, what will we do? Who will continue pushing the button on that thing that we don’t know what it does?
Shut down or no shut down. The nonessential employees have been identified. Regardless of the outcome we have on 10/1, these people still need to be RIFFED.
I have empathy for Federal workers who have not already left and found jobs – the handwriting has been on the wall for some time. But, I absolutely support trimming the federal government down to size. They get really good salaries and benefits while regular Americans struggle to make ends meet. I do so hope there is a large RIF.
If they are “nonessential” what are they doing there in the first place?
I agree with BFAW. They are people too, and most of them aren’t evil. However, they’ve been a protected class while the rest of us have lived through economic turmoil since, well, forever. Perhaps those that keep their jobs will be a little more grateful and work for us, not themselves. Those that lose will survive, and maybe they’ll have a better understanding of why much of the rest of the country disdains them.
All of that said, nowhere in her post did BFAW say anything about essential or nonessential, so your strawman attack is a non sequitur.
They can’t get a job in the private sector paying what they are scamming from the government (tax-payers).
Nobody argued against that.
None of them missed a paycheck during the Covid Plandemic and enjoyed much paid time off.
Duh
It has been reported that up to 100,000 fed workers have said if the shutdown occurs, they will resign… en masse. A drop in a very large bucket.
Threat?
Or promise.
We’ll soon see (I hope).
Either way, I would smile sweetly and say Thank Ya! Eventually the drops will empty the bucket of uselessness.
Those are the employees who signed up for the severance program offered by Musk last April. It’s probably 99% retirement eligible employees!
👍🏻
Fingers crossed. I was a child when the DC beltway opened. Everything on the outside was farmland. Now you have to travel at least 30 minutes outside to escape.
Those are people who already took the proffered buyout.
This is their last date of employment & they’ll continue to be paid for 1 year.
I thought they already stopped going to work and were to get paid up through today? That’s how it was presented last February.
Yes. They get automatic COLA based on inflation plus merit increases. No private sector I know of gets that. Just merit if you’re lucky.
The complete opposite of the way it used to be.
Private employment paid better…once upon a lonnnnng time ago.
Add in now that it is almost nearly impossible to fire a fed worker….so job security, no matter how inept or useless.
😂 merit where i I come from never exceeds 4%.
COLA & pensions are nonexistent.
This video, is what the Marxist left, want American’s to deal with. Talk about non-essential morons….
This unstable woman, Joylless Reid, The Marxist, racist idiot, is threatening everyone with a good time?
These people on the left, are dingbat, moonbats….
There are millions of useless takers in the US Goverment. They can learn to pick crops….
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1972887827492082123
I’m more of the opinion regarding the Fed drones, pardon the French, “fukkem all“.
saw this yesterday, it’s brilliant
That was a trip down memory lane! 🙂
Cafe Duran, back in the day, around the time of Juan, tasted far better…a Panamanian product.
Until the fincas sold out to big globalists coffee bean farmers in Panama….sometime after the Kissinger blunder known to Zonians, as “The Treaty”.
Speaking of “The Treaty”….no more news on the possible audits of said document that quietly now indirectly involves China….
I like ICE coffee
Central and South Americans – ICE coffee – 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Where are the “Chuck the Grillmasters,” known for cheeseburgers rare, foolish half glasses? World class putz!
Trump said “They lost the election in a landslide and they don’t change”.
People need to wake up and realize this. They may lie about what they stand for with a different lie than before but they don’t change. Never have. Never will. Stop thinking they have.
The Dims falling right into Trump’s trap.
I watched Russ Vought’s interview with Tucker a few months ago and came away with high hopes for a return to limited grubermint, something we haven’t had since 1940.
Just remember that it took decades to get to this point. It will take decades to correct it! Gonna have to suck that gut in to get the belt a little tighter!
Yes! Yes! More of THIS, YES!
Don’t stop with just the dregs in our government. There will be 40 “generals” sitting at his table. Most of whom have, in one way or another, sought to depose him.
Investigate ALL of them.
Keep the 7 cleanest ones.
Allow the few remaining cleanest ones to retire.
Demote and retire the rest.
And cancel their security clearances.
🤞
I hope to live to see a day when the Democrat Party scraps its ‘oppositional defiant’ act. It is tiresome.
I hope to live to see the day that the institutional GOP actually BECOMES an oppositional party.
I am waiting fir the fat lady to sing.
Does it have to be THE fat lady?
Couldn’t we place an ad on Craigslist and find the perfect person?
It takes a lot of body to resonate, LOL!
If the government can be shut down so “routinely,” then it probably contains hundreds of thousands of employees who aren’t needed and aren’t doing anything. I am completely cold to the notion that government service should be twenty years of doing nothing, followed by a lifelong pension. Fire their asses, and let them discover what the real world is like. It will do them good.
Ronald Reagan was once noted to say that the ‘closest thing to perpetual life is a government program’…..
🤣🤣🤣
I’ve thought all along that government workers whose jobs are considered “non-essential” should just be RIF’d. When the government can “shut down” for weeks and hardly anyone notices (except people who frequent national parks) there is something seriously wrong with the staffing of the government.
This is what I and millions of Americans voted for!!!
Many businesses try to ‘right-size’ their workforce. One benefit is lower labor costs. Another is busy people, on task, doing the necessary work.
Given that the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and other agencies have embarked on political adventures intended to promote specific political agendas, attempts to literally overthrow the elected President, and engage in a variety of partisan activities, reducing the federal workforce closer to the essential necessary numbers seems to be a darned good idea.
Now we will find out what essential is!! It’s probably5-10% and the rest is Unconstitutional Waste
75% of the essential workers are useless as well.
As a former government worker, I agree.
If they are non-essential employees they should be laid off. Permanently. Then have temporary employees fill those jobs only as needed. It’s ridiculous that the Federal Government already doesn’t do that because I know many State Government agencies do that all of the time. Year after year they keep a list of temporary positions that are only funded by the state as needed and the people who do the work are not hired as permanent employees unless they apply for and are hired for a permanent position and even then a permanent position may at some point become unneeded due to decreased work loads and then the position will no longer be funded.
If one is hunting ducks, one should probably go where their are lots and lots of ducks.
The Department of Defense, now the Department of War, has around 800,000 civilian employees. Does it really need even half of them?
I can tell you that good number of them are doing the jobs that should be done by serviceman like supply & payroll.
“go where there are”…. lol
The old axiom of “the more people under you, the more secure your job” still applies!
Good.
Please do. I’m not holding my breath, but please do.
I haven’t sympathy for any fed layoffs. Not one ounce.
I do. There are thousands of regular folks in the DC area especially who got hired by the Fed government last year…last decade…last century….to do bureaucratic stuff that they could perform, and get pad well to do.
IT IS NOT TNEIR FAULT if they are currently sitting in a job that is being targeted for elimination.
Unfortunately, Congress and the behemoth Federal government will NEVER downsize gracefully and smoothly.
So if and when thousanfpds of federal job positions are eliminated and people lose their jobs….it will hurt them.
Kudos to the 100,000 or so Feds that took the buyout and have had 7 months to transition to something else.
But for many more…..it’s going to hurt.
“IT IS NOT TNEIR FAULT if they are currently sitting in a job that is being targeted for elimination”
It wasn’t the multi-MILLIONS of private sector Americans’ fault, whose lives/livelihoods were mercilessly DESTROYED by a premeditated gov’t funded pandemic.
“They should learn to code.”
No sympathy from me. Not ever.
Letting doctors’ office “managers” have the say so on who could get in to see the doctors during COVID. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!
Shutting down the government is a good thing, and getting rid of government parasites who make much more for being in the equivalent job position as those who work in the private sector do but doing less is a Really Good Thing!
Git er done!!
I feel bad for anyone who gets laid off. I hope they have skills to find work in private sector. Y’all are mean and have no mercy. Try reading Matthew 5:3-12. Jiminy crickets people. Pray to the Lord for Trump to win then immediately turn into hateful minions of the evil one. Not cool….shame on you who take delight in others’ misfortunes.
The German’s have a word for it.
Schadenfreude
Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
In this case, it’s more like – pleasure derived from justice.
Justice – the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments
Go away. No concern for the thousands of ‘leeches’. They have no conscience if they are just ‘occupying space’ at the expense of other, hard working folks.
The trouble is, though, not all are leeches. Have you ever watched footage of ICE and BP agents battling it out with the illegals, rioters, and Antifa scum? They’re federal employees, and the shutdown will make them suffer.
Not leeches.
Not only are ICE and BP agents federal employees, but so are US Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen, etc.
Yes of course. Absolutely no disrespect intended toward my DoD brothers. And they’re now having to muck around with illegals and Antifa. But their oath includes that, enemies, foreign and domestic.
Have fun in Sun city
In the military, we referred to them as ROAD – retired on active duty.
Th 1930′ Germans had a word for that too. It was Untermensch. But we are not suppose to be like 1930’s Germans.
Which do you think is the lower form of life? Leeches or Untermensch ?
Sorry for your hurt feelings. However, I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Government does not OWE anyone a job, let alone a PERMANENT job. We the people are paying for these workers and, like any other business, we expect to get our money’s worth. No one wants to pay the freight for a government worker who is sloughing off during work hours or simply not doing their job. And, as a former government employee myself I can tell you there is plenty of joking around about people not doing their jobs. And there were plenty of people NOT doing their jobs whom we should NOT be protecting.
No hurt feelings just pity for the mercifulness souls finding joy in others misfortunes. I’m more than supportive of eliminating waste but I see no joy in the impacts. Necessary but not a celebratory occasion.
Well, not a celebratory occasion for any true Christian anyway.
You were probably not one of those kids who enjoyed puling the legs off little mice and the wings off small birds.
Get rid of the SES (Senior Executive Service). They are worse than non value added. If you threatened them with a polygraph, I think half would resign and the other half would flee the country.
” The Senior Executive Service (SES) lead America’s workforce. As the keystone of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the SES was established to “…ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.” These leaders possess well-honed executive skills and share a broad perspective on government and a public service commitment that is grounded in the Constitution. ”
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/
PROVEN POLITICAL / LIFE – LONG BUREAUCRATS ( ” Self – Licking Ice Cream Cones ” )
They have their own flag. The first time I saw one I thought it was the EU flag.
SHOWS Their Loyalty.
WHY NOT Just work UNDER The Individual Department Flag ? ie. DoW, Coast Guard, National Guard, DoV, HHS, ?
From Dictionary.com Nonessential definition: not essential; not necessary.
And there you have it. Thank you, President Trump!
I do believe this is the bill where congress gets $25,000/mo for full time security detail.
https://americafirstreport.com/government-shutdown-could-harm-democrat-federal-employees/
““Furthermore, in light of the horrendous slaying of Charlie Kirk, this CR provides members of Congress with additional protections so that they can serve their constituents. We urge all members to pass this clean CR to prevent disruptions to national security, public safety, veterans care, and social safety net programs while bringing back fiscal responsibility,” the group continued.”
NO ‘security detail’ dollars! (and since when are they serving their constituents)?
We the people should not be paying ANYTHING for these low-lifes to be protected. They make way more money than most of us do AND they have their little slush fund that was set up specifically for this purpose. NO MORE MONEY for these grifters.
And the good news is ninety plus percent of them are demonrats.
IF the government shuts down and all these layoffs are made to the non-essential workforce, what can be done to guarantee the next administration(s) won’t hire them all back? Can these cuts be made permanent?
The employees are not being laid-off permanently. It’s only for the duration of the shutdown and everyone will be paid in full retroactively as soon as the impasse is resolved.
Then why is this even an issue? If they get paid retroactively then why even lay them off? It makes no sense.
She’s wrong. Normally during a shut down, the employees that come back het retroactive pay. In this instance, PDJT is saying they are going to fire the non-essential workers. They don’t come back, they don’t get paid anymore.
That makes more sense, so thank you!
Now, is there any way to ensure the non essential fired workers won’t ever get their job back since they are non essential? Does Congress have to pass some sort of bill to keep these non essential positions out of government, or are we just SOL if the next administration(s) want them back?
Non-essential doesn’t mean what you think it means! They will all come back and get paid.
A bill passed by Congress can be ignored just as easily as a a directive by a boss when everyone wants the boss to be unsuccessful. If it is an actual business, the job itself is at risk but in the Government Job it goes on forever even when a boss leaves and the job is finished.
There is a lot of incentive to never quite finish any ‘job’ but keep collecting the money to do so. Like the addition to the DC branch of the Federal Bank thatis a billion over budget and not close to being finished.
That’s right! It makes no sense.
If they are non essential, you don’t need them.
The first cuts should be 100% of anyone in SES.
The good news is that Ukraine and Israel will still get their billions!
Only if we are stupid enough to give it to them – which we undoubtedly are.
Yep!
Thank You Chucky
I believe 75k departed ‘gubmint employment in the Jan-Feb buyout.
This round could help reduce the bloat by a total of 8-10% in an 8 month period.
Reagan wanted this, but never got it. PDJT achieves a gigantic reduction and I belive the savings per year is around 25 billion.
President GOAT!
Still don’t want anything Pfizer…
President Trump is scheduled to make an announcement this afternoon reportedly on prescription drug prices and a deal with Pfizer.
Has anyone seen a result of PJDT’s “DEMAND” to the drug barons on their ‘test figures’?
Let’s not forget that public employees have families who vote. Further, labelling all as non productive and lazy is not true and non Christian.
All true…but….
They overwhelmingly, especially in the DC area, vote Dem.
As to being productive — many are, and many arent. What is not productive are many of their jobs —- just not necessary.
Turning the other cheek & forgiveness has never resulted in ‘group improvement’…. individually, perhaps.
Certainly not all government employees are non-productive. But positions that are non-essential should be attrited.
I hope they remind them in the term letter that they are being terminated because dems won’t yield on federally funded gender transitions/abortions and healthcare for illegals.
33 million (from BB on the H1B and LI 4 article) Americans are out of work and I should be concerned about ‘non essential government employees’?
Fire these people…no ‘lay offs’….no back pay, no holiday time or vacation time, no time off to work a second gig…
The party is over.
Feels like a bargaining chip. I have a hard time believing Democrats will risk so many of their voters getting canned.
I was thinking about what’s the play that democrats are making here.
I know they’re pretty stupid but it seems that this is kind of an easy decision.
I’m expecting the dems to cave tonight.
I’ll be really surprised if they don’t.
A government shutdown is tantamount to a Christian renouncing the divinity of Christ.
Government is their god. And they will appease their god.
They cannot risk OMB taking a meat ax to government employees because they let this get past midnight tonight.
They may let it go to shutdown and then go Media Blitz to blame Republicans. It has worked for them in the past.
Looks like it will be made easy:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/100000-federal-employees-expected-quit-largest-exodus-u/
Add to the 75,000 that have already hit the bricks.
Their feel feels are hurt, just checked and still have a butt hurt form, used give it to the whiners.
I had to read this article twice…the numbers might include those who took that buyout early on in the 47 admin….leave but get a salary until 9/30/25. it might be the people who took the deal. Who knows?
This article is about the Deferred Resignation Program. Basically, it’s people who took the buyouts last spring.
It appears to me this provides perfectly for the Uniparty. The R’s can fundraise on claims they shrunk the government. The D’s can fundraise on their claims to protect the workers.
Provided all of those RIF’d and furloughed are not reinstated – with back pay – we might actually have something good happen.
This shutdown can be beautiful.
I don’t believe in limited government. I believe in minimum government.
Here’s the opening to do exactly that. Thanks, stupid Democrats.
Let’s remember though, all those ICE and USBP agents defending federal courthouses and ICE facilities are …… federal employees.
Having to go out every day and night, risking their lives and health to arrest illegal aliens and Antifa scum…..away from their families on TDY to cesspools like Chicago and Portland……..but not getting paid.
Here’s a fun fact…. if you’re ICE/BP/CBP and sent on temporary duty during a government shutdown, you’re not being paid, but you’re also not being reimbursed your travel expenses….fuel, airfare, hotel, etc, because the support personnel that process all that are considered non-essential.
When your travel card becomes due , you have to personally pay it…or face disciplinary action, even though you haven’t been paid in weeks or months.
On a long TDY that coincides with a gov shutdown, this can be thousands of dollars.
I was a helicopter pilot and on one long gov shutdown, the fuel card for the helicopter quit working. The one for our gov SUV worked still, and I found one card from a helicopter that was in pieces getting a 600 hr inspection. But using the card from the wrong machine to fuel another is a big no-no.
I was ordered to get that bird in the air, but not violate any policy. Which was impossible.
I ended up buying fuel with my personal card and hoping to be reimbursed whenever the shutdown ended. You can guess how that went.
They are considered to be essential and not eligible for layoff.
You completely missed the point. Plus, the “non-essential” admin ladies that processed our travel vouchers and made sure I could refuel my helicopter while flying from AZ to Florida to lift people off their roofs, actually is “essential”.
If they don’t come to work , *eventually* things do start crumbling and going off the rails.
It’s not that they’re “non-essential”, it’s that they’re not *immediately* essential.
Have you ever had to work, but not be paid, and also not be allowed to go find outside employment? Oh, you’re essential, you’re not being laid off, but, we aren’t gonna pay you, either.
How about 500 essential admin ladies instead of 2500 non essential admin ladies/ hurricane with 2000 admin ladies twiddling their thumbs between hurricanes/ floods/fires etc.
The mention of being enroute to a hurricane response was just to illustrate the gravity of it……that a supposedly “non-essential” support specialist that manages our fuel tank levels, fuel card balances, etc actually is “essential” after they’ve been furloughed for over a month.
Whether or not there’s a hurricane or not, they still do the same job, and are needed, whether I’m flying up and down the border looking for illegals, flying to Portland to support ICE, or going to a hurricane.
If the agency has 2500 admin ladies, you can bet they stay busy handling whatever their specialty is, payroll, building maintenance, HR, processing workman comp, whatever.
Instead of calling them “non-essential”, they could better be called “not immediately essential”. Yeah, we can make it through a 2 week shutdown without them, they’re not gun toters or stick shakers (pilot lingo) or wrench turners, when shutdowns go over a month, things start collapsing without them.
Yep! It’s Grreeeeaat!!!
Yep! You’re not being paid – but are essential.
So you show up to work, and hopefully can get a ‘G-ride’ (govt car)if you have to go far.
Otherwise, it’s your POV (personally owned vehicle) and you pay the freight.
How many of the thousands that say they are going to resign today actually have so far?
They won’t, just like Hollywood won’t go to New Zealand…
Pensions are at stake…or as we call it “trillions at stake”…
The story about the 100,000 resigning today is in reference to the DRP buyouts last Spring. Those buyouts end on 10/1 mostly.
All those resignations happened 6-9 months ago. They were then placed on administrative leave. Tomorrow they’re no longer on the books.
PDJT posted this great meme on his Truth Social account overnight:
😅😂😅
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115290424560405640
I still receive AFGE emails. The last two were calling on members to contact their representatives and senators to urge them to make a deal. They were “non-partisan” in these messages which means they KNOW it’s because Democrats are going BEYOND a “continuing resolution” by adding a bunch of crap no one wants. Otherwise, historically, they have blamed Republicans more directly.
I responded to them saying they need to support the Republican line in order to preserve JOBS — their NUMBER ONE priority. I honestly don’t think they can bring themselves to actually perform their primary function which is to support and represent the interests of government employees.
Every weird and otherwise inexplicable program or spending item by Democrats must be assumed to be more scams where they pay themselves for fraud. There’s really no other reason they would betray the government workers unions this way.
Fire the non-essentials? Be still my heart.