Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to cut 75% of federal agencies, reducing them from 428 to 99, in collaboration with Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), led by Vivek Ramaswamy.
Johnson’s agenda includes defunding PBS, Planned Parenthood, and curbing the “administrative state” through legislation and executive orders under Donald Trump.
Critics warn such cuts would impact jobs, healthcare, and essential services.
Backed by recent Supreme Court rulings limiting agency authority, Johnson and DOGE aim to reduce federal regulations, sparking significant debate over these drastic proposals.
Isn’t that like several hundred thousands of employees? Suddenly unemployment will be sky high and you think health care CEOs are going to be looking over their shoulders now? Just wait. Mike will need his own presidential security detail to just look outside.
You won’t have any agency recording unemployment levels, so there will be no details about it. All you need to know citizen is that the Trump leadership is flourishing as it enters its 6th term, and all your problems that you experience are because of minorities.
There are roughly 2 million US government employees. So 1.5 million people unemployed? Which wouldn’t send unemployment sky high, but pretty high.
1.5 million in direct unemployment, but consider the knock on unemployment for all the services those workers won’t need. Coffee shops, dry cleaners, parking lots, Uber/Lift drivers, childcare, etc. Employed people pay for services while employed that are directly tied to that employment and those businesses will also layoff their workers when these jobs disappear
The DC economy would shutter.
1.5 million people who know how the system works hell bent on fucking over one shitty human.
You gotta add the state agencies who are supported by federal agencies. So like 50 -100k for every red state.
Does that 2 million include contractors?
No, though I imagine they would rather hire a ton of contractors and end up paying them more
I think it’s privitazion that will be their preferred option. The government workers will be offered jobs in the private sector at less pay while the privatized company will charge more.
They’ll probably even have another company that will manage leasing office space. The We Work guy is probably waiting for his comeback.
The private sector is not equipped to absorb millions of people. Most of these government workers are highly educated and highly specialized. These people aren’t going to just replace the millions of jobs Trump is planning to deport from the labor force.
You know that, I know that and I’m sure the people calling for these cuts know it. The difference is they don’t care.
Could always do the UK model (Currently being used on the NHS) The workers keep their jobs and the state/public still pay for everything but the workers are now magically actually employed by a private company that extracts profit by charging the government for stuff it was already doing without providing anything whatsoever.
That is basically what I was saying. It’s just a means to transfer money from the federal government to private corps.