Jun 6, 2025
Trump Admin SCRAMBLES After DOGE Fired Vital Workers
The Trump administration is scrambling to re-hire workers who were fired by DOGE.
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I can't wait to see what Doge will do
when the government is shut down.
If the government shuts down.
The amount of things that you can do,
that where the traps just open up,
where they can just cut even further than
they already are, just you'll find out.
And it's going to be a lot of fun.
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- How many people are enough.
- For you to get fired?
What's your goal?
How many tens of thousands do you want?
- Just fired.
- Can we, can we can we start with half?
Okay, so back in March,
when the government was facing a
government shutdown, Ben Domenech rejoiced
over the possibility of Doge firing
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as much as half of the federal workforce.
Three months later,
the Trump administration is figuring out
how to get those people back,
because of course they are.
Here are some of the details
from the Washington Post.
So across the government,
the Trump administration is scrambling
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to rehire many federal employees
dismissed under DOJ's staff,
slashing initiatives after wiping out
entire offices, in some cases imperiling
key services such as weather forecasting
and the drug approval process.
And this effort isn't just because that
Musk and Trump had a fallout last night.
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The administration has been working
to undo DOJ's damage for a while now.
So Trump officials are trying to recover
not only people who they fired,
but also thousands of experienced
senior staffers who are opting for
a voluntary exit as the administration
rolls out a second resignation offer.
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Thousands more staff are returning in fits
and starts as a conflicting patchwork
of court decisions overturn
some of Trump's large scale firings,
especially this Valentine's Day dismissal
of all probationary workers,
those with 1 or 2 years of government
service, and fewer job protections.
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However, now some former federal employees
are reluctant to return.
And who can blame them?
Many of them have moved on with
their lives, either into retirement
or they got other jobs.
Some of them don't want to work
under such.
Volatile conditions and uncertainty,
and some feel as though their lives
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and livelihoods are just being.
You know, political game pieces
for billionaire politicians to manipulate.
So what then, is the way forward
for the government?
So the administration is seeking
workarounds and stopgaps,
including asking remaining staff
to serve in new roles, work overtime
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or volunteer to fill vacancies,
according to interviews with 18
federal workers across eight agencies and
messages obtained by the Washington Post.
And again, who can blame these workers
for not wanting to go back?
As we've previously reported, speaking of
volatility, many of these cuts were bad,
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but they were so bad that they had
to be fixed or completely reversed
almost as soon as they were implemented.
So back in February, the Agriculture
Department launched a campaign
to rehire bird flu response workers after
avian influenza sent egg prices soaring.
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That same month, the Trump administration
fired nearly 17% of the National Nuclear
Security Administration's workforce,
temporarily imperiling
the safety and security
of America's 5000 nuclear warheads
before hiring them back after an outcry.
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So, similarly, rehiring have been rough
within the FDA, the IRS, the State
Department, and the Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
There have also been issues at US aid.
The National Weather Service
and the Social Security Administration
dosage has crippled
the United States government to the point
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that it has been unable to function.
And part of the narrative that we were fed
was that these workers were all lazy
and ineffective, and that their
jobs could easily be replaced with AI,
which costs far less than human labor,
which in the name of government efficiency
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was supposed to be a good thing.
We've certainly heard that line when it
comes to things like air traffic control,
and we all see how that went.
You know, none of this made any sense
from the very beginning,
not even really in theory.
And then once we saw the ways
in which Doge was going about shutting
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things down and letting people go,
the whole operation just kind of reeked
of incompetence and poor planning.
And the only way that Doge
and the Trump administration can claim
really any modicum of success here
is if they admit that the goal all along
was to create chaos and disruption,
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because that is really
what they've achieved.
And also, even if they are able
to hire back some, let alone all
of the employees that were let go.
This says nothing of all the programs and
the departments that got defunded during
the all the Doge rampages, so are those
going to come back in any real capacity?
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So two things.
Do you see a way forward here
as far as getting our government
back to a functional place,
not even asking for optimization
at this point, just functionality.
And what can we expect
from Doge in the future, assuming it will
still be a thing in the future?
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No, it won't be a thing
and they'll stop doing this.
So let me explain why.
So first, these guys come
in like jackasses
and fire all of the probationary workers.
Were they on probation
because they did something wrong?
No. That's just what they call it
in your first year or your first two
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years, depending on the department.
So they're new workers. Why?
Because they needed workers.
So they hired some.
So they just came in,
they're like, You're all fired.
But wait.
They hired them for a reason.
They were doing something.
Don't you want to check what they
were doing before you fire them?
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You morons.
And then they come in and they go,
oh, okay, we'll do buyouts too.
For the older workers.
You can just leave now and then.
So what happened was air traffic
controllers started taking the buyouts
and then we started.
Wait. No no no.
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Don't go, don't go.
We need way more air traffic controllers.
We don't have enough.
Oh, duh.
Maybe you shouldn't have done that,
you morons.
And you know, there's a couple.
There's a whole bunch
nuclear security guys.
You fired them.
They're like sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Come back, come back, come back. Right.
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Why did the egg prices go up?
It turns out the idiots fired
the people tracking bird flu.
Then we got bird flu, and then
the egg prices went up because of that.
It's directly
because of their dumb ass actions.
Guys, it's not like you
can't cut the government.
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There's giant corporate subsidies
everywhere.
I, Elon Musk pointed
this out just yesterday.
He's like, if we're cutting
the electric vehicle subsidy, how come we
don't cut the oil and gas subsidies?
God damn right.
How come we don't cut
that $30 billion a year every year?
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No one ever talks about it.
And we take money out of our pocket
and give it to ExxonMobil and Chevron
and these companies for no reason
other than deep corruption.
But, oh.
Oh, Doge couldn't find any of that.
Doge couldn't find
any of the subsidies going to Elon.
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Doge couldn't find the subsidies
going to any other corporation.
Those are supposed
to cut the Pentagon, right?
Honestly, I started that conversation.
Ellen and Don junior
and all these guys jumped in.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. We're going to cut the Pentagon.
And then did they know they added
150 billion to the Pentagon?
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These weren't about cuts.
This is all about optics.
And if people so why do they
fire all these people
that without thinking about it.
Well number one, Trump's a moron.
That's why he never thinks
through anything.
He never does his homework.
He never reads.
He's no one knew healthcare
was this complicated, brother.
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Everyone knew healthcare
was complicated except you.
Right. So, like a child, he comes in.
Okay, we're getting rid
of the weather guys.
And then a guy goes on TV the other day,
by the way, in South Florida and goes.
Yeah, we can't track
the hurricanes anymore.
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They fired the people
tracking the hurricanes.
So good luck to you guys.
Hurricane season is about to come.
- Here.
- Yeah.
Yeah, it is here. Yeah.
Can't wait.
Looking forward to it
here on the Gulf Coast.
Yeah.
And by the way, a lot of Republicans
on the Gulf Coast, I know they don't care
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about the rest of us, right.
And also a lot of Republicans
in tornado areas.
Oops.
They're not able to track the tornadoes
anymore because they cut like morons.
And they did it so that everybody
would talk about the cuts.
Was it because they really wanted
to have a more efficient government?
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No, it was so they could pretend
they didn't have cuts
to give away $4 trillion to the rich.
That's what this budget bill is about.
That's what all the what was why
the maniacal tariffs.
Okay.
So that Trump could say, oh don't worry
because the tariffs because of Doge,
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we already raised so much money,
you won't have to pay attention
as we give 4 trillion to the rich.
Right.
So that's what this was about.
So to be more specific in my answer to,
yes, Doge and and even the tariffs
after the tax cut bill passes,
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you won't hear about them again.
They'll have you served their purpose and
and they'll put them away
and you'll never hear of it again.
Brett, what do you think?
Yeah, you've been saying that for a while.
Yeah. So here's the other thing.
Yeah, I agree with all the stuff you said.
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The other thing is, like he says,
how Trump shows up,
as you say and says, like, no one knew
that this stuff was this complicated.
Fine.
On your first day, hell, your first term.
But, bro, this is your second term.
How do you still not know
how this stuff works?
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Like, no.
They said that Hillary Clinton was
the was the most experienced person
running for president in the modern era.
Well, Trump had already been president
when he ran this time.
So everything that he's messing up,
he has the least excuse
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of everyone in the world.
So everybody, everything he said the first
time is like, oh, it's so unfair.
I can't believe people are being unfair.
No, no, no, buddy,
unfair is out the window.
This is your second go around.
You're back at your old job.
How do you still not know
how this stuff works?
And then the only other thing I'll say
with the subsidies
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that they're trying to cut, like the thing
that you haven't mentioned yet,
we haven't mentioned yet,
is like, we're also subsidizing like,
Walmart and McDonald's.
Like we're we're handing out subsidies to.
And that's the stuff
that they want to cut the subsidies.
It's like the untold subsidies
that we have to Walmart.
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Right.
So like we pay Snap benefits
to Walmart workers.
That is our way of subsidizing Walmart
because they don't pay
those workers enough for them to, like,
eat food with even the falling of prices.
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Right.
So the the crazy thing is, rather than
cutting subsidies to to industries
that can afford it, what they're doing is,
is cutting subsidies that help
their they want to cut subsidies that,
help the workers of Walmart
who aren't getting paid because Walmart's
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so goddamn greedy that they're
not going to pay you a living wage.
I find that absolutely reprehensible.
That is the one government subsidy
they are willing to cut that that helps
corporations only because it it goes
directly into the pockets of consumers.
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Yeah. Yeah.
And like here in Texas, like,
I'm not going to lie, like my biggest
concern right now is the weather stuff.
We've had already some
very crazy weather this year.
It's been a very active spring for us.
They're predicting that it's going to be
a very active hurricane season.
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And I really just don't know
what to expect.
And that in and of itself is unacceptable.
Right.
We should have a better idea of what's
coming because we have that technology,
because those experts are out there,
because the people who are supposed to be
doing those jobs want to do those jobs,
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but they just said, no, just go home
and sit there and do nothing instead.
It's really unacceptable.
It's doing a disservice to so many people.
It's going to cost so much money also.
And they're already, you know,
they've already made cuts not just
to NOAA and the NWS, but also to FEMA.
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So the whole Gulf Coast, the East Coast,
we're all in for a hell of a time
this summer and into next year,
and hope I don't know
if things can or will get resolved
before any meaningful disaster happens,
but I mean, I really, really hope it does.
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Last thing.
So they also cut the staffers at the FDA,
the Food and Drug Administration.
Then they realize, oh, now we don't know
if the food and drugs are safe.
Oops.
So we're the richest country on earth,
and we can't afford to check the food
and drugs to make sure they're safe.
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We can't figure out, the whether things
as basic as that, but we have enough money
for $30 billion for oil companies
that comes out of your check.
You see how deep the corruption is
and how Doge was never about waste,
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fraud and abuse.
It was just a marketing trick
to get more tax cuts for the rich.
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