For the last few decades, and especially since the pandemic, federal workers have lived a fairly cushy lifestyle. They have received government paychecks, and been allowed to work from home, while the taxpayer funds billions of dollars being spent on their empty office buildings. Add into that equation all of the hires made solely for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, and you have thousands of government employees who really do not provide much.
But the second term of Donald Trump has started going after all of the wasteful spending in our federal government, and it has started to make federal employees fearful of the future. First, the President denounced DEI hiring practices and then places all federal employees that are in DEI roles on permanent leave.
Matt Margolis of PJ Media says the slashing of these jobs, especially the DEI ones, is a good start to the clean-up process.
"These are jobs that our taxpayer dollars should not be going toward anyway," he says.
Just this week as well, President Trump offered buyouts to those aforementioned employees, to get them off the taxpayer's books and out of our government. But because Democrats are the way they are, it will likely be hit with some kind of legal challenge. Even if the logic to cut the jobs is there. Because the Left and logic mix like oil and water.
But this is not the spineless Biden Administration, that would cave or not follow through with their work. President Trump is back, and he is serious about ridding us of this unnecessary waste. Now they will have to prove their worth for the first time ever.
"Federal workers have gotten used to this idea that they don't have to prove themselves, and their jobs are always safe," he says. "They are realizing there is a new Sheriff in town...but I would not be surprised if they are going to fight it."
The rhetoric with this from Democrats will surely be that President Trump is some bigoted racist, who wants an all-White government. All to drive some ridiculous narrative that just does not exist.
It is the dawn of a new, refreshing era, with a President that does not care about political correctness and wokeness. It is about proving your worth and earning your fair share. An idea on which America was built.
"Trump has made it clear the government is going to be a meritocracy, and in the end, all jobs are going to get behind this meritocracy movement," says Margolis.
Finally, after four years of woke nonsense, we have a President that is bringing America back to an 'earned, not given,' mentality. Cleaning out the bloat has been long overdue, and it seems finally something will be done about it.
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