Good day all. President Trump has been in officer for a couple of weeks and we’re seeing things we’ve never seen before, even during President Trump’s first term. One of those things is blind panic and absolute denial of what is happening and going to happen to the Federal Bureaucracy.
President Trump has already ordered the shutting down of all things DEI. Any Federal Employee who was doing DEI crap was sent home with pay and benefits while their future was being determined. (The ATF decided, surprising no one, to ignore the order and is Fucking Around. Stay tuned for the Finding Out part) All the contractors were let go and all their contracts canceled. Now the other shoe is dropping. Here are some of the details from Fox News:
The Trump administration is offering buyouts for nearly all federal employees, including those who work remotely, as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to get employees back into the office, but they only have until Feb. 6 to opt-in.
One of President Trump’s orders to the bureaucrats was to “Get their Ass to Mars the office.” This has upset many of the lazy, good for nothing federal employees. A large percentage are pushing back, thinking that they actually are the people in charge. President Trump and his team have made it plain that workers refusing to return to the office will be fired.
During Trump’s first week in office, he issued several directives to the federal workforce, including a requirement that remote employees must return to in-person work.
“After four years of incompetence and failure, President Donald Trump is committed to making our government efficient and productive again,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Tuesday. “American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers.
“If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months,” she added.
Out here in the “Dreaded Private Sector,” when employees are offered buyouts, it usually means that the next step is layoffs. It’s common knowledge that Americans think that the federal government is to large and unaccountable to the Administration, Congress or the American Taxpayers. President Trump agrees with this sentiment, hence the back to the office order.
On Tuesday, a government-wide email was sent out to ensure all federal workers were on board with the Trump administration’s plan.
Who cares if they’re onboard with the administration’s plan? This isn’t a discussion, it’s orders. You, the federal bureaucrat will report to your office or you can start looking for another job in the fast food industry.
“The government-wide email being sent today is to make sure that all federal workers are on board with the new administration’s plan to have federal employees in office and adhering to higher standards,” a senior administration official said. “We’re five years past COVID and just 6 percent of federal employees work full-time in office. That is unacceptable.”
I’m assuming that the 6% going into the office are those who really don’t have a choice or actually prefer to. I’m one of the latter in my Real World Job. However, so few people wanted to go back, (I was one who was in almost every day after we were told we could come back), that when the lease was up on our office space, the company moved to a much smaller office location. I still go in on occasion, but I don’t like the new smaller office set up and very few of my Real World Coworkers go in that often either.
“Going forward, we also expect our physical offices to undergo meaningful consolidation and divestitures, potentially resulting in physical office relocations for a number of federal workers,” the email read.
One of the things that the Trump Administration is looking into is the amount of office space that the Federal Government currently uses. Most is owned outright by the Government, other spaces are leased. One of the plans is to close out the leased spaces wherever possible and get rid of any surplus to needs office space or buildings. That will probably save the taxpayers billions every year.
For those who returned to office, the Trump administration thanked them for their “renewed focus” on serving the American people. But the future of their position could not be guaranteed, according to the email.
Yep, we’re looking at major layoffs.
For those who do not want to continue in their role with the federal workforce, the Trump administration thanked them for their services, informing them they will be provided with a “dignified, fair departure from the federal government utilizing a deferred resignation program.”
This is another way of saying:
The program begins on Jan. 28 and will be available until Feb. 6, and should a federal employee choose to resign under the program, they will retain all pay and benefits, regardless of workload, and will be exempt from their in-person work requirements until Sep. 30, 2025.
Not every federal employee is being offered this buyout.
The buyouts do not apply to military personnel of the armed forces, the U.S. Postal Services, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security, and any other positions specifically excluded by the agency the federal workers are employed by.
In other words, people and position that have been determined to be “Critical to needs.” A fair number of these positions are probably going to be expanded, especially the Military and Immigration services. That should tell you just how important the “Rank and file” bureaucrats actually are.
“To be clear, as it was with President Trump’s executive order on Day One, implementation of return-to-work policies will be done by each individual agency in accordance with applicable law,” the senior administration official said. “We expect 5 to 10 percent of federal employees to quit, and it could lead to $100 billion annually in savings for federal taxpayers.”
I think that would be just the start. Canceling leases, closing unused offices and either selling off or leasing unused buildings would probably bring in billions more. Then there is all the nonsense regulations these clowns create. That could be tens to hundreds of billions more.
One of the things I saw elsewhere is that the salaries for all these bureaucrats has already been funded, but that nothing has been funded for any replacements. Whoever wrote that didn’t seem to get the memo from the last election. People don’t want the Swamp drained, they want it nuked from orbit. Getting rid of hundreds of thousands of these useless drags on the economy is just what we wanted.
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