Prez cutting more gub mint waste




10, 000 or so



Winning

the bloat needs cut but all the cuts will be a big blow to the economy and gdp.

I think the courts stopped it, bud.

A cost that must be paid for downsizing .gov.

Clinton appointed federal judge stopped the order


https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/court-blocks-trump-administrations-latest-mass-layoffs-for-federal-employees/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20think%20it'll%20get,in%20shutting%20down%20the%20bureaucracy.%E2%80%9D

4000 already chopped ......they will try though ....

John Roberts sure opened up legislating from the bench with his legislating to uphold Obamacare.

There's over 3 million civilian workers for the government. I would guess less than half of them do anything truly useful for the American tax payer. I would guess many of them are a hindrance to the American tax payer.

Keith

Should all the non-essential workers during the shutdown be furloughed:)?

Yes

it'll be no blow to the economy or gdp.

I'd bet that we could fire 1/2 of the fed. workforce and 99.9% of the people would never notice. Just think of the money saved when these employees aren't spending tax payers money on stuff like $419,470 spent to study if lonely rats are more likely to seek cocaine

If these employees are "non-essential" then why are they even there in the first place?

fire them, by definition they are not "essential".

Your interpretation of “non-essential” is misguided.

Deep State: "remember that party when you were in college? No? well, WE do. and we have pictures."

There are a list of 8 rules at the top of every trapperman forum page.

Only one is in ALL CAPS, but it's also the only one we ignore.

Short term it will reduce spending/gdp and that will slow the economy. Whe. the big employer in town cuts jobs Its hard on the small town economy. Same thing the government is the US largest spender driving gdp. Its not sustainable With out debt but will most definitely have a negative short term effect on the economy.

It might have an effect if enough jobs were actually eliminated, but that ain't going to happen.

My fear is that they are going to cut people who are actually valuable and leave people who aren’t. As a federal employee, I say nearly daily we could do the same work with half the people. In fact, there are supervisors saying that we absolutely should not do the work of people who are on furlough (even though it would be easy to do) because then the position will be viewed as not needed. The problem I see is going to be when they cut jobs to people like me who are willing to do several people’s jobs and not cut the people who barely do their own job. The funny thing is, I am considered essential, but everything in the government is so siloed that my entire team that I need to be able to do anything is furloughed.

Government workers don't produce anything so I don't see an impact on the GDP. It will affect the employment numbers and those furloughed folks will have to find real jobs.

Fasinating how easy the various non-essential is looked at as non-important. Non important to some peoples lives and how impacting they are to others. I am every bit in favor of shrinking govt and controlling costs. I did that for over 35 years as a buisiness owner and now as an employee to another construction company. My concern is the manor of which these head count reductions are conducted without a plan in place. Ya, its easy to say wipe out 1000 or 10,000 jobs and recognize the cost savings in the initial moment. But look at just one department and what that impact is. Local farm office was slashed this last spring in the early wave of head chopping. They review and varify compliance for erosion plans, fertilizers, crop rotations, and more. Farmers had all their documents in place and by April/May planting everything went smoothe. Additionlly, everything they needed for crop insurance was complete and applied for as planting was complete. This year, at this time - mid October, as harvest is upon us there are still farmers that don't have all their farmland plans even approved and complete.
Why?? Because some jack-wad swung an ax without a plan. Reducing a staffed office from 6 down to 2 doesn't work when 90% of the work that needs to be done in a couple month period of time. An intelligent leader would have departments prepared. Bring on part-time employees to cover bubbles.

I'm not saying don't cut waste, I believe a great leader identifies issues and has the right people in place to resolve them before they have a negative impact. Streamlining processes with minimizing risks is the way to reduce cost for the long term. Unfortunately we have had too many criminals at the helm of this government including the current POS.