Trump creates new "department" whose goal is efficiency and cutting down government waste

[mspart]

7 minutes ago, red viking said:

Which government workers should have been laid off due to covid? 

Btw you are wrong though. I personally know govt workers that were laid off due to covid but you have no clue and make baseless winger claims like this. 

So you are refuting using anecdotal evidence?   Inadmissible.   Just a little research shows me no evidence of recent federal government lay offs. 

Which ones should have been laid off?   Probably none and I can find none.  A good number should have been fired outright for making up policies and saying they were based in science.  Fired for lying to the American public.   Fired for getting media companies to censor and lie about it.   Just about everything they censored and caused to be censored is now clearly known as truth.  

mspart

[1032004]

1 hour ago, mspart said:

No need to even look it up.  Zero government employees lost their jobs.   Thousands private sector workers lost their jobs.  

mspart

This report from the Census Bureau (ironically just released yesterday) disagrees with you.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/11/pandemic-effects-on-employment.html

 

[mspart]

How many of those are because the worker wouldn't take the jab.   There were quite a number here in WA that were /are in that boat.   In fact many of the Ferry workers were let go because of this.  

Plus this was talking about federal employees.  Your site only talks about state and local employees.  

Next.

mspart

[Lipdrag]

2 hours ago, red viking said:

Which government workers should have been laid off due to covid? 

Non-essentials.  We were very quickly able to categorize people into that category.

[1032004]

2 hours ago, mspart said:

How many of those are because the worker wouldn't take the jab.   There were quite a number here in WA that were /are in that boat.   In fact many of the Ferry workers were let go because of this.  

Plus this was talking about federal employees.  Your site only talks about state and local employees.  

Next.

mspart

Fair enough on the federal point.

TBH, I’m not sure what @ionel was even getting at with that question.  The earlier chart was per capita spending, not payroll.   It was probably unemployment payments which drove the increases during the recession and pandemic, so laying someone off but then paying them unemployment probably doesn’t save a ton of net tax dollars.

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