Hundreds of federal workers who lost their jobs thanks to Elon Musk and Doge staffers earlier in Trump's administration, are now being asked to return to work. Oops. So the Associated Press actually got a hold of an internal memo [00:00:15] from the General Services Administration. GSA, which of course, manages many of the offices and buildings used by federal agencies. Now, as the AP reports, starting in March, thousands of employees left the GSA [00:00:32] as part of programs that encourage them to essentially resign or take an early retirement. Now, hundreds of other others were dismissed as part of DOJ's, I would say botched downsizing and cost cutting efforts, [00:00:47] which didn't really amount to much in the first place and caused all this dysfunction in the government agencies. But nonetheless, those employees didn't show up for work, but some continued to get paid. Now, overall, overall, the administration slashed GSA's headquarters staff by 79%. [00:01:06] Its portfolio managers by 65% and facilities managers by 35%. And that's according to a federal official briefed on the situation. Now, it turns out that that was in fact, a bad idea. And now this new memo indicates that the GSA is asking about 400 employees [00:01:24] who were laid off to. Please come back. Please, Jack, don't let go. Come back. Now, they've been given until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement. Those who accept must report for duty on October 6th, after what amounts [00:01:40] to a seven month paid vacation. Sounds like we're spending taxpayer money. Well, during which time the GSA, in some cases racked up high costs passed along to taxpayers, of course, to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination [00:01:57] or were allowed to expire. Now, Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official, says that ultimately the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed. They didn't have the people they needed to carry out basic functions. [00:02:12] And firing too many people wasn't all Doege did. In an attempt to dismantle GSA. A small cohort cohort of Musk's trusted aides embedded in GSA's headquarters, sometimes sleeping on cots on the agency's sixth floor and pursued plans to abruptly [00:02:29] cancel nearly half of the 7500 leases in the federal portfolio. Now, Doege also wanted GSA to sell hundreds of federally owned buildings with the goal of generating billions in savings, GSA stated. By sending more than 800 lease cancellation notices to landlords, [00:02:48] in many cases without informing the government tenants. Geez. This is insane. The agency also published a list of hundreds of government buildings that were targeted for sale. And that was also quickly dialed back. So more than 480 leases that were supposed to be terminated by Doge [00:03:07] have since been spared. Plus, as a result to as a result of the internal turmoil, 131 leases expired without the government actually vacating the properties. The situation has exposed the agencies to steep fees, because property owners have not been able to rent out those spaces to other tenants. [00:03:27] So just a complete and utter disaster. Not only did Doge fail to provide the tax savings that Americans desperately wanted by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, it turns out that their actions led to costlier issues [00:03:43] and problems for the federal government. - Jank. - Yeah. So we covered this when it was first happening. And what do we tell you guys? We said, wait, how do you know which guys to fire? You had no time to study this. [00:03:58] You can go back and watch the videos of ours. So do I want cost cutting? Especially if it's waste, fraud and abuse from the government? Of course. Right. So. But somehow they missed, for example, $35 billion in oil subsidies. You couldn't find that? I found it. [00:04:13] Rokana found it. He's got a bill to get rid of it. I don't know, he has a bill on everything. Right. And then Trump put in $18 billion more of subsidies. So even the overinflated numbers that Doge gave for how much they saved [00:04:28] is in a fraction of that. So if you actually wanted to cut waste, fraud and abuse, why are we paying the most profitable companies in the world out of our tax dollars? It makes no sense at all. And I've got 100 examples like that. And they said they'd cut the Pentagon the most fraudulent, wasteful department there is. [00:04:44] Instead, they added $150 billion. But when it comes to GSA and some other departments, they're like cut, cut, cut, cut. But what are you cutting? What are you. Okay, let's get rid of that building. How do you know if we should get rid of the building? Did anybody study? Hey. What does what do the people in that building do once they realize later? [00:05:01] Oh, some of them were giving out Social Security benefits, and we have to still give out benefits. So we got to rehire them, get a new lease, get a new building, etc.. Oh, we fired a bunch of people that were working at the IRS. Now they can't audit the wealthy. Oh golly gee, I guess that was a mistake. [00:05:21] This had never had anything to do with waste, fraud and abuse, and it was done by a bunch of jackasses that had a different agenda and obviously butchered the whole thing. Most obvious thing in the in the world. And by the way, if you're a right winger and you wanted to get rid of waste, [00:05:36] fraud and abuse, they screwed you, okay? Because they didn't get rid of it at all. And instead they made the project of getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse look silly and dumb because they did it in a dumb way. I totally agree. Look. [00:05:51] And also When you think about I'm going to read the last graphic here. So Doge's wall of receipts, which once boasted that the lease cancellations alone would save nearly $460 million, has since reduced that estimate to 140 million by the end of July, [00:06:08] according to Becker, the former GSA real estate official. Trump just approved another $6 billion for Israel 6 billion versus 140 million. This is a joke, guys. It's the whole thing is fraudulent. You want to find waste, fraud and abuse? [00:06:26] This this Doge was nothing but marketing shtick. So that you would forget that corporations and foreign governments own our country and not only own our government. Right? What did we save? 140 million? Besides, I read the whole story in through several outlets. [00:06:43] No, you don't even save that because the idiots let a bunch of leases expire. Now we're going to have to pay more to get new leases that cost way more. Yeah, but they sold some buildings at a loss. Now we're going to have to buy buildings at more expensive. [00:06:59] They did payouts so that people would retire. Now they're bringing them back. So the payouts are gone and we have to pay them. And for a lot of them, for the last seven months, we've been paying them all along. So not only did we not save money, it looks like we wasted extra money on top. [00:07:15] Oh, right. Because I'm not gonna. Look. I don't care who's right or wrong. I don't care who has a job that is worthwhile and who has a job that's, you know, wasteful. I'm just gonna fire them all. Duh. Bunch of idiots. And so now we can't go after. Now everybody's like, oh, that's it. [00:07:31] No more going after waste, fraud and abuse. - It didn't work. - Yeah, totally squandered an opportunity. But, hey, you know, the tech tech bros got our personal information for their own purposes, so that's great. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings. [00:07:48] Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.