At the verge of a potentially devastating government termination, Trump spent his day with Pete Hagset Harangung at the summit, which was to be an email.
President Donald Trump talks to media members on the South Law of the White House before planting to the Marines in Washington, September 30, 2025.
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When I write this, the US government is in the early stages of another shutdown, and it is caused by republican refusal, Funding subsidies in healthcare retaining insurance within the reach of tens of millions of low -income Americans.
Trump’s response was confrontational – to put it mildly. Over the past week except publication Racist memes As for the minority leader of the House of Hockey Jeffrist, the president justified the chance that the shutdown gives him the dismissal of a huge number of federal workers – this is above 300,000 who have already gone to the federal government since January. They will not be temporary layoffs and differences, Trump NBC News said, but “on a permanent basis“
This is not good political negotiations; This is a hostage situation. Do exactly what Trump wants, Democrats say, either hundreds of thousands of workers and their families will lose their careers, livelihoods and foods on the table.
For Trump, these families are harmful in his power games. But for the people who have oath to serve the American people, it is a potential catastrophe. Despite the fact that Trump and Musk claim bureaucracy and overpaying workers, the vast majority of federal employees are not wealthy. A Average salary The federal worker is $ 97,000, and most starting salaries pay much less. Studying my future book about the dismissed federal workers, I interviewed the IRS employee whose task was to talk to taxpayers by phone eight hours a day, a young USGS researcher and NOAA contracts. Their wages were closer to $ 50,000 than $ 97,000.
In other words, such people whom Trump sacrifices for power are uncertainly sitting in the US middle -class base. Like most Americans, they live salary for salary. Their savings, if they have, are scanty. Their ability to cover accounts if they missed the payment cycle or two, at best. If they are fired because Trump uses the shutdown for further introduction of the government, they will enter the sour labor market, saturated with former federal employees and contractors who compete for the same jobs. A lot of people I talked to who lost work in the first round of Doge Purges who applied for hundreds of positions without success. They are the history of reducing mobility and growing uncertainty about their US government’s courtesy.
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But it is not just federal workers who will suffer. Everyone in the United States, who relies on public services – to a large extent, everyone in the country will feel consequences. State institutions, which have already affected the DOGE cuts and attacks on science, diversity and any effort to introduce social justice priorities in the government, will be increasingly able to deliver basic goods, whether it will be FEMA reaction to the crash or checkpoints at airports that do not come for many hours.
And how did Trump spent the day in the government shut off?
He and his friend-Magnit Pitt Hugset convened an unprecedented meeting of the main brass military from all over the world-concept, which, according to conservative assessment, will cost taxpayers a lot of million dollars. Trump watched as Jesette spent the morning Destruction of generals and admirals About “waking up” ideology in the military, “fat” soldiers, the need for troops to go to the “Etos Warrior”, urgency of liberation of the military from the rules that prevent it from committing military crimes, and the demand for recruits to comply with “the highest level of male fitness”. He even took the time to protect the ritual rituals for recruits.
All this bile of macho, one could say equally good album, faster, equally offensive in an email or through a safe video conference. The only possible purpose of the flight of hundreds of leading military commanders and their staff to Virginia was that the Minister of Defense could support their belongings on a small screen. Perhaps if you have saved money without accepting this disorderly meeting, they could pay some of the counted men and women who do not receive salaries during government shutdown.
Never yield a spotlight, Trump decided to speak At the summit too, and he again showed his conciability to the Constitution and the law on the Committee, this time, believing that he could use the “dangerous cities” of the country as training for military recruits. (It would be so illegal that even this Supreme Court could think of his greens.) He called for troops in those cities to “hit” protests, telling them that they could do whatever they wanted against the people who spat on them or damage their vehicles. He threatened the military leaders who disagreed with him, saying that when they refused to obey him and quit: “Your title goes, your future goes, but you just feel nice and free, okay?” He teased the idea of creating the fleet of advanced linear ships of the early 20th century. And he explained to the audience of four-star generals, including the African Latuna, whom hegets had not yet been bypassed, that there were two “H-flats”, which he was not allowed to think; The first, he said, was “nuclear”, as if the largest nuclear superpower in the world, and the only country that has ever abandoned the atomic bomb in the war, incorrectly accepted the Japanese pacifist foreign policy. Second … Well, he left the word in the fantasy of his audience.
Yes, Trump could not hide his disappointment if he was not allowed to use the offensive epithet in his public reprimands. Like its inappropriate, obviously old, “speech”, they could not hide their disappointment that his applause was met mainly by the relentless, stony silence. It turned out that the generals and the Admirals did not buy what he was selling; They didn’t think it was funny, the commander-in-chief joking about the N-word.
But don’t worry. It turns out there are many other ways to introduce racial animus into American life. In his search again, to make America white again, Trump and his minions made it clear that the deportation machine would continue to sing regardless of the shutdown of the government. In fact, while Trump was engaged in generals, and federal agencies were preparing for the closure of national parks and cut off funds for food banks and medical centers, The ice was busy deportation More than 100 people who escaped from the Iran regime to Iran. It was, The New York Times Dry is the rare moment of the detection between Trump and Mulas. And so, in the break with the previous US policy, so as not to deliver dissidents into the hands of governments, which will probably watch in prison, torture or even kill them, the United States flew out of the unfortunate asylum, back to Tehran. The crowned achievement of Trump is morally shocked by the United States. He and his Minister of Defense Fetishize war crimes, and his administration destroys the Federal Government Security Agency. It is a legacy of unresolved shame and degradation.
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