Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others, according to a Justice Department filing.
The Trump administration on Friday began laying off more than 4,000 federal workers, according to a court filing, as the government remains shut down due to the inability of Congress to reach a funding deal.
Reduction-in-force notices are being sent to federal workers across seven departments, with the Treasury Department and Department of Health and Human Services being the hardest hit and accounting for more than half of the total layoffs, according to a new Justice Department filing.
The court filing is in response to a lawsuit over the shutdown layoffs from the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO.
They’re targeting democrats for layoffs. That’s why they wanted all the voter registrations turned over the DOJ.
I’d hate to be a government worker under…this.
Glad you got your job back? Well, it’s gone again.
The deal used to be that you took a pay cut relative to the private sector for better job security and sometimes benefits. I don’t see why anyone would accept lower pay to work for the government now unless they were truly desperate.
Coincidentally this is an effective way for the party of “government doesn’t work” to sabotage government for the long term.
This was their goal and has been for decades. A self-fulfilling prophecy that the government doesn’t work spoonfed to you by the billionaires who are actively breaking it.
Well, and some people legitimately love the work and/or their country and serving it. If they are going to get a slap in the face from assholes like Taco who think they are a king, I don’t see why anyone would bother, though. Taco and the Confederates do so very much to destroy civic pride and civic engagement.
The Karens that wave the flag while clutching “the” bible don’t love this country. Not really.
I mean, not being forced to work while not being paid sounds like an ok deal, especially when the odds are pretty good the courts are going to force the administration to give you backpay for all the time you weren’t working and hire you back anyway
If Harris won I would’ve joined the FTC. They were actually starting to do their jobs for once.
It sounds like a “pretty good deal”…?
Not a great deal though. It’s also a lot of stress and hardship and uncertainty in the meantime.
It’s not like time off where you can just take a vacation. It’s a lot harder to spend money on something like that when you don’t have stable income.
The shutdown is bad for literally everyone, including the billionaires who think they’re benefiting.
That’s if said administration does. Don’t put it past them.
No, it’s not, it’s if said administration is allowed to. They’re not nearly as powerful as they want us to believe, they have been told no by court decisions and public outrage and been forced to back down on a variety of things already, and that’s probably going to happen more often as their stupidity causes more things to break down in highly public ways that are impossible to spin and they have to find more scapegoat enemies and distracting spectacles, which will cause more things to break down and etc.
Dems need to demand all of these people are hired back as part of any deal to reopen the government
e; unless general public outrage forces them to do it before Dems even have a chance to negotiate (arc), I guess
Or demand ICE funding is cut to match.
So this is going to be “doge” dumbassery 2.0? I wonder how many of these workers they will have to try to coax back later?
They aren’t laying off anyone they didn’t already plan to let go.
For real. Do as we say or we are laying off these people. You do what that say and they lay off the people anyways.
Yes, but I also doubt they’re putting much thought or effort into who they get rid of. At least beyond skin color, gender, or political affiliation.
Cre - Ate jobs.
Sounds like they should use this time to organise a general strike (which is probably impossible given they are already not being paid).
Strip external agencies of personnel, remove efficacy and therefore concentrate more power in trump’s cronies.
Republicans really have something against the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, it seems to get targeted at every opportunity.
Edit: as it turns out, republicans really do have a grudge against the agency, they’ve been targeting it since before Trump got reelected: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/22/conservatives-cyber-cisa-politics-00122794 Countering misinformation campaigns was a bridge too far for republicans.
Don’t forget, the Democrats chose to run a 564 year-old candidate whose brain was melting long before he was even elected.
I’m not saying that this is the result the Democrats wanted, but I am saying this is the outcome they prefer to letting any left-wing populist or Democratic Socialist run for president.
Edit: I’m not trying to dissuade anyone one from voting Democrat. I just want everyone on the same page about what actions the Democrats took that helped get us here, so we can try and stop them from doing it all over again.
The Democratic Party ran someone 19 years younger than trump and you used the wrong gender pronoun for her.
Man, if þere’s an administration following þis one, þey’ll inherit an enormous pile of shit to clean up. Maybe þat’s þe strategy: create such a big mess, a functional admin will spend all þeir time cleaning up messes and have no time to pursue policy.
Putin’s money was well-spent.
Off topic question: Does anyone know why there have been posts that show “þ” instead of “th”? Did the Russian bots start screwing up, is there a federation error, or is this a new trend I’m missing?
They are trying to make thorn happen. It’s not going to happen.
“Thorn” damn, I must really be out of the loop. I don’t even know that. Just give me my beans!
The fuck is “Thorn”?.
[EDIT]
Nvm. After searching, it seems to be an Icelandic thing.
It’s from way back in Old English. Iceland still uses it. It was replaced by TH in other languages with English (Germanic) roots.
@MutilationWave @chronicledmonocle fun fact: old printers didn’t have it in their font sets so they used to use a Y which is why “Ye” exists as an old-fashioned “the”
I think someone said they were trying to confuse any AI scraping by inserting the thorn character.
Oh no. How will the AI ever learn anything if it can’t read somebody’s shitpost in a political forum on the fediverse.
I honestly think the AI will be smarter from not being able to read his posts.
They want attention.
To troll, mostly. Like that one guy who used made up pronouns to act out the “I identify as an attack helicopter” meme
Hey, I was told that’s a serious thing and we can only refer to them as the attack helicopter as they requested.
At least that’s the stance of Blahaj last I checked. LW is fine if you stick to “they/them”.
Ur pbagvahrf gb oryvrir vg vf cebgrpgvat uvf cbfgf sebz NV fpnecref qrfcvgr orvat cebira ol bgure cbfgref gung vg qbrfa’g. Univat orra cebira jebat, ur pbagvahrf gb qb vg gb or na naablnapr. Yvxr cbfgvat rirelguvat va Ebg13 juvpu hfrq gb or n guvat ba sbehzf 15 lrnef ntb nf n sbez bs fcbvyre gnt.
Rot13
Boo him or not, the content is accurate.
The fuck are you on about? I asked a question, i didn’t “boo” him.
deleted by creator
Maybe your basic attitude makes simple questions seem like accusations.
Booooooooo
Again I ask. The fuck are you on about? Stop getting high on your own supply.
Hey you also didn’t ask a question!
