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No, he wants to pull a Reagan part 2 and fire any government worker who goes on strike. Trump has an army of loyalists willing to do whatever he says, who would be more than happy to scab any strike to inefficacy. Even if they're terrible at the job, all that matters is that they're loyal.
They don't want the scabs either. A dysfunctional government is the goal. Then they will say, see it doesn't work. And use that as an excuse to scrap more of our government.
It really puts the federal workers in a tight spot. They are getting shit poured on them from above, and they are like one of the last lines of defense from Trump. Trump et al wants them to leave, if not willingly then on the first occasion he can fire with cause.
That really sucks. They have no moves but to hold the line.
True, another valid point.
Sure something to consider, but they can't just up and replace 3 million people with 3 million rando Trumpers that aren't likely to quit their jobs and move to another state for that anyway.
I think a full federal workforce strike would be pretty effective.
They probably can, even if it means spending billions more in the end to hire out private contractors to do the work they can't find enough sycophants for. The whole point is grift.
I mean, DOGE is already an example. They're just hiring conservative kids fresh out of college for peanuts because they believe blindly serving the Trump admin is the most alpha resume builder one could ask for. The government is basically being run like one big racist fraternity.
And if they can't find enough people to do the actual work, they just do things like give NASA contracts to SpaceX so Elon and his billionaire bros can get richer off the taxpayer dollar.
...and what's this blank spot on your resume?
Those people working at doge are practically ineligible for other jobs besides working for the gop only, no use in hiring a Nazi collaborator