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This is a JOKE. A DISGRACE. A SHAM. 

Trump is actively sabotaging our federal government... let alone obliterating our federal workforce. 

His Big Beautiful Loser bill is going to create a $5T deficit while these idiots have managed to save $19B since this government took office. Are these 50 million who elected them now understand how embarrassing and utterly disgusting this looks now?

Cy_098

This will literally kill people as their insurance runs out during the court proceedings.  Can the plaintiffs ask the court to mandate the government to continue paying for their part of the insurance while the case is ongoing?

thieh

Once again... The Nazi test: Ask Google AI: 

"Did the Nazis cut their Federal work force?" You won't be disappointed.

williamgman

That will derail their plans for a dictatorship as fast as anything else does, Without a functional government they won't even be able to supply their own gestapo and turncoat army! Let alone hold onto the whole country. 

Countries this size are potentially always a few days from anarchy without careful management of absolutely everything!  If groceries stop arriving for a week?  Boom! may as well have set off a nuke in every city.

Same with power, the financial system, water, communications etc.  A million little things have to work fairly well because anything not working can lead to a failure of something vital, Maybe even a cascade failure where systems start falling like dominos.

literallytwisted

*Republicans on the SC ignore the Constitution yet again..

StrangerFew2424

This is an 8-1 decision and liberal Sotomayor actually criticized KBJ for being the lone dissenter for what it’s worth.

Prior-Tower7118

They approve of something that they know has not yet been determined to be legal.  SCOTUS is insane.

mhouse2001

yoppee

I think it’s about time we go ahead and stop with the “supreme” business. Sure, yes, you’re a court. But you’ve made yourselves just another group of assholes. Call yourselves the “Big Great Court of Smart People,” who cares, but come on with “supreme.”

freakdageek

Reduce further??? A retired lawyer told me this is the BEST time to cheat on taxes.

Junior-Advisor-1748

RxDrOctopus77

At a certain point you must ask, why do I even pay taxes?

warjack20180

downsizing the federal workforce sounds neat until essential services grind to a halt.  

cutting jobs blindly isn’t saving money; it’s creating chaos.

Hot-Chemist1784

Cutting federal jobs sounds good to some people but a lot of stuff just stops working right when you gut agencies.

cleodivina4

in other words, cripple it and break it, so you can point at it and say "see! it doesn't work!"    
Then they privatize it so you have to pay from your pocket to theirs for the services you need!  

Too bad some of those services are water, food and product safety!  Pesky regulations get in the way of profits.  Drug efficacy and safety?  What you talkin' about?  You get the drugs that offer the highest profit margins for the wealthy!

Practical-Bit9905

People are fooling themselves when they allow these court injunctions to give them hope.
  
Rescue is not coming from the judicial branch.

Searchlights

Seems like a terrible plan but the vote was 8-1

mcotter12

The bigger story is that only Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. With friends like Kagan and Sotomayor you dont need enemies. Another stark reminder that the only way out of this is by putting leftist fighters in positions of power who wont bend.

Oldschoolhype2

Now the power of the congress is overturned again. They allocate the funds, Trump takes it away.

Primary-Pianist-2555

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Vote in 2026 like your life depends on it.

ChinookKing

Ah yes, nothing says “Make America Great Again” like firing the park rangers, gutting public health, decimating education, and shutting down science offices - but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of budget for deportations and border crackdowns. Who needs a functioning government when you can have a dystopian fanfic instead?

darrylxxx

Do we know if these are in addition to the positions lost to the two DRPs? Or were these RIF plans filed before the second DRP numbers came in?

Mus_Rattus

Excuse my French but fuck this orange asshole

“U.S. President Committed to Increasing Unemployment”

cyvaquero

How in the living hell can NPS and Fish and Wildlife take any more cuts, especially this deep

ammoniteintheshell

Ruckit315

How the F is the NPS going to even exist with 30% cuts??? Jfc

1691bunsenburner

They are carrying out a fascist take over and more P2025 stuff.

SpawnofPossession__

Cutting NPS positions doesn't encourage tourism.  Oh, silly me!  When TACO tariffs take effect, none of us will be able to afford vacations.

Separate_Basis869

Crazy to witness our country crumble around us in real time. What a joke.

RainDownAndDestroyMe

Is that 38% of Ed including the people already laid off but stuck in the injunction? Or 38% of the remainder?

DogsBucolic

19% of treasury in FY26? 

Like after we lose 30-40% this year?

megacommuteloser

Dsarg_92

NASA is taking a 60% cut in budget. Which means my gf will most likely get RIF’d and have to relocate to a different state than me :( 

Most kids grow up dreaming of working for NASA at least once and the orange conman is destroying it. Destroying the very fabric of what made America so great.

Bulky_Dog_826

Cut SBA - then tell states they need to handle their own disaster relief- which heavily relies on SBA!!!

PossibleFederal1572

Amazing you elect a domestic terrorist to be POTUS and didnt expect him to run on an anti American and anti American jobs platform. Terrorist Trump hates American jobs and Americans. Plain and simple

Elon_is_a_Nazi

The fed gov is COOKED, America. Great job in November everyone! 🤦🏻‍♂️💩

keen_observer34130

This is not factoring in DRP. Some line items are Fy 2024…

https://preview.redd.it/d1wkjb9s9r4f1.jpeg?width=828&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=1b6ad944a29973793f916581f76564fd97b16c01

Look at the employment summary of relevant sections

Dear_Original_8253

This is a grave I cannot WAIT to piss on.

2010_12_24

All this and the national debt will still increase!!!  Yet, we’ll have less of nearly every social service, and likely be faced with a luke warm (at best) economy, while our standing in the world view erodes.

To those “on the fence” voters last fall who made up whatever justification for Dump, and those who couldn’t muster a vote for a coherent woman: FUCK YOU

Mental_Worldliness34

people need to treat IT like it's critical infrastructure... wait until they see what happens when there's no one to maintain IT networks, system and services... everyone thinks IT is a magically set and forget type of system when it's not at all.

definitely-not-fed

GreyLoad

Good thing we have a system of checks and balances. /s

Oh wait-

Cultural-Bear-6870

So anyways, is there any word on the cost of living pay increase for 2026? Would love to see the 2026 GS tables soon.

Pineapple_with_tajin

The dildo of repercussion’s rarely arrives lubed. Ask around the office who voted for trump and there you have your sacrificial lambs. They should get cut first IMO.

Rude-Location-9149

I feel like this is already happening… A better question is “Will Trump even remember to do this by next year”.

Party_Use4138

I feel like whatever doesn't cut muster in the courts will eventually be resolved by the push for Schedule F and "suitability" tests. The absolute WORST part of this whole thing is that they are plunging our country deeper into debt just so they can eventually enrich themselves via privatization. Many, many things going on in the executive branch are criminal, but wasting all of this money in addition to setting us up for failure is immoral. The hypocrisy is infuriating.

Really need MAGA people to turn into mainline conservatives and become angry about all of this.  There is a difference between "less government" and a dysfunctional government while DOGE gets to promulgate about the promise they kept (no silly, not the $2 billion promise) about making millions of dollars in cuts while tax cuts go through.  I remember after 9/11 Dems and Republicans seemingly coming together to deal with an outside threat.  Well, the call is now coming from inside the house, and as much as they want to point to borders being overrun with bad people, the actual bad people are causing this chaos.  I need a drink.

JustOkIsOk

This is all stemming from Vought’s wet dream. This vile individual behind it all needs to be exposed so Americans know who this rodent is.

Sharp_Leadership_836

A lot of this is predicated on Republicans holding both chambers next election. Make sure you vote.

FavRootWorker

They’ve left out something, the budget for NPS has Inventory &amp; Monitoring (biology not office supplies) at zero. This is catastrophic and we must speak out so it’s not overlooked. The way it’s worded; it’s easily missed.

AbbreviationsOk5483

Call your Senators, this is a maybe unless successful in changing law, budget constraint or courts completely acquiesce.

It cd all happen but lots of uncertainty.

Bright-Credit6466

FWS with a workforce of ~6100? this is insanity So more than 1000 more will be fired….?

No-Nature7955

Fuck this rich piece of shit just playing games with our lives. Jesus Christ somebody do the thing.

fourbutthick

YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTED FOR. The black woman sounds nice right about now?

scions86

Something tells me most of America will be going BLUE in the next elections.

Organic-Ad9675

https://preview.redd.it/97z0m7wutq4f1.jpeg?width=960&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=2b5e2ebcbff45fa9a22b56e970582fb505c8fd5e

Pedophiles are like that

Yowiman

I hope this will stop all the "now that things are cooling down" or the "I regret DRP because......" We're nowhere close to being out of this.

hereforthecray

all of this because some people just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman (an accomplished, experienced, knowledgable woman)

PepperLander

tactical_potatoo

Wait. There's going to be a next year? Because I was reading through Project 2025, there is no mention of 2026.

EntropicInfundibulum

hi_im_eros

80,000 from The Veterans Affairs Department, they really care about the troops! /s

jsc1429

This is devastating to hear… I was hoping in vein the worst has passed…

AccomplishedPay7433

We're holding SSA together with superglue right now and he wants to shed another 3,500 employees next year?  Presumably they won't be public facing employees.  Ok cool...I'm sure that'll work out fantastically well.

No_Relation_2508

The Government will all but halt.  AI cant do everything!

DigDoug70

Oh Jesus Christ! Never a good sign when the agency you work for is mentioned by name.

TenYearsGone0

Is that based on pre DRP numbers or current?

lol HUD is easily down 50% after DRP2. So another 20%?

LegalBeagle6767

I think the budget request is gonna be less because they have already gotten rid of people so obviously next years budget for personnel is going to be lower. I’m in GSA and PBS has already lost about 50% of its workforce. I’m not sure how they can cut more next year.

Simple_Party72

Does this serve a purpose??? I don't get why

Ragdollmole

Christmasismafav

Neat-Bet-9275

WITAF?? Thousands and thousands of more reductions?? Americans who voted for this have no idea what they’ve done.

IndividualChart4193

Cool_Tea_6179

Trump has been failing big league! We’ve all noticed the gloom and doom atmosphere. Something bad in the news every day week by week. This doesn’t feel like positive change. This sucks regardless of the layoffs. FAA employee.

Thirsty-Pilot-305

Friendly reminder to take that day off, use your sick leave. Fuck this administration.

hamverga

Vote ANY party other than Republican.  As they’ve demonstrated over and over and over, the GOP is the enemy of average, working class Americans.

Ok-Badger2959

Bc why would NASA need STEM Engagement? 

&lt;deep exhausted sigh&gt; this just makes me want to cry. For the people potentially losing their jobs and for the VERY NECESSARY services these positions provide.

Perpetually_Cold597

Slash his job.  He does nothing and is unqualified

Apprehensive-Cup-912

How another 20% at Labor??? They already lost over 26%

DonutLove47

Is this a joke? Just trying to break us down further?  Or he is he really getting rid of all of us? It’s appalling how many lives he’s already ruined.

jamisonian123

Education only had 4200 or so employees to begin with in January.

SmokeMcgoats

It would be very very funny if after the cuts people quit in mass. Imagine the headlines “Trump hires 20k workers in X department” or “X department cannot operate anymore due to mass terminations”.

KingKookus

This is antithetical to a strong economy. Because of all the uncertainty, I've stopped any discretionary spending in my local economy. All this wholly caused by greedy idiots only to traumatize Feds and make billionaires richer when they contract out my job, cost tax-payers more in the end.

Anyone cheering to fire Feds who owns a small business is shooting themselves in the foot.

ReloAgain

From the brilliant minds that brought you Project 2025, see Project Esther!

Civil-Fail-9775

The real question is who is Trump going to blame when this whole experiment blows up in his face.

Alarming_Tourist_728

In my experience as a federal employee the President’s Budget Request has always been viewed as “not what is actually going to happen” but more of a wishlist or messaging strategy about priorities. I get that now he has an obsequious Congress (with a narrow majority) but still think it’s important to keep in mind the funding levels specified in ties budget request are not destined to become a reality. It is still concerning due to some of the above.

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Two issues. 

As soon as a Democrat wins the White House and purges everyone hired under Trump, the Supreme Court will reverse their decision. 

When Trump purges the vast majority of federal employees, those in red states are going to suffer mightily. Hurricane season is upon us.

Interesting-Risk6446

Wonder what jobs numbers the WH will come up with after this begins?

ctguy54

"Downsize" certainly was...*a* choice that could have been made in that headline.

AwesomeBrainPowers

Yeah, let’s not do that at the FBI, the  national weather service, the FAA and many other critical divisions.

But let’s say for a moment, that cuts in less critical departments are necessary to balance the budget.  Well then, why aren’t we balancing the budget?  Why are we rolling out big tax breaks and raising the deficit $2.6+ billion?

128-NotePolyVA

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President [Donald Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/)’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.

The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the [Department of Government Efficiency](https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-doge-donald-trump-962778979dd35ea79d6092df9cb2cb56).

The court said in an unsigned order that no specific cuts were in front of the justices, only an executive order issued by Trump and an administration directive for agencies to undertake job reductions.

yahoonews

The SCOTUS cannot understand why we need so many federal workers when they already gave the current POTUS the power to do everything

dutchmen1999

The U.S. Supreme Court has approved President Trump's initiative to downsize the federal workforce, enabling mass layoffs and agency restructuring.

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