Trump’s Firing Frenzy Is Hitting the GOP Where It Hurts

Thursday morning opened the news that Donald Trump says he is the sharply department He is accused of restoring houses and infrastructure after major disasters – think about the Hurricane Helen and California Forest Fires – 84 percent. And the banner agency 936 employees will be reduced to 150.

This is not a federal emergency agency that has already lost 200 employees, but an office in the housing and urban development department that helps FEMA. One of many irony: The office also helps prevent false claims and abuse. What do you think Dage Elon Musk would like.

But it is clear that it is not about reducing waste, but a reduction in programs to finance tax reduction for billionaires and subsidies for Moscow companies.

One month after Trump’s inauguration at least 200,000 federal “testing” staff threatened to dismiss, but they have not yet taken place. Approximately 75,000 employees have accepted DOGE’s ransom, although some have found that they were not being honored to compensate for the compensation they signed.

Sweater Has the best list of specific agency cuts today. They include:

• approximately 400 Employees of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
focused on research, science and administrative support;

• near 3600 healthcare workers and human servicesincluding
At least: 750 Disease Control Centers (CDC)
Employees at least 1000 national healthcare professionals,
and 750 people in nutrition and medicine administration (FDA);

• at least 400 internal security officersincluding 200
Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA)
staff;

• near 2300 in the interior departmentincluding 800
In the Bureau of Earth Order and 1000 in the National
Park service;

• more than 3,000 forestry staff in the department
agriculture;

• more than 1,000 veterans’ affairs professionals;

• at least 300 Environmental Protection Agency workers;

• more than 1500 NASA employees (10 percent agency
labor force)

Of course, some mistakes were made during these mass firing. The Agricultural Department fired people working on bird flu, who needed to hire back, and Dodge dismissed 300 people at the National Nuclear Safety Agency, but had to hire most of these people because … nuclear security is important. As long as.

This will eventually hurt hundreds of thousands of people – and many of them are Trump’s voters. It turns out that military veterans are disproportionately represented among the DOGE cuts because they are disproportionately working on federal work. Two -thirds of veterans He voted for Trump in 2024.

I gave up jokes about “leopards that eat a party of people.” We want to help these people and welcome them in the coalition rather than mock them.

Luke Graziani, a 20-year-old army veteran, learned on Friday that he lost work at the Bronx Veterans Hospital, despite excellent performance reviews.

Other veterans choose to remain unknown, including one in North Virginia who confessed to the radio station that he and his wife voted for Trump. “I voted for Donald Trump. But that’s not what I expected,” he said. “We didn’t think they were going to pick up a chainsaw for a silk carpet.”

Democrat Hudson -Valley’s Democratic spokesman Pat Ryan has the right idea. On Tuesday, he appeared with veterans in his area to protect the closure of veterans’ affiliations for 20 beds to veterans who suffer from addiction.

But the Democrats in Congress slowly relate to the direct resolution of the consequences of these cuts, the champions of the victims and make their stories visible. At one point, I heard it partly because many people wanted to remain anonymous. But more and more named persons are protruding with the media.

On Wednesday, Politics There was a story about Anthony Gardner, whose brother died on September 11. Since then, he has devoted his career to smoking the memory of those who have lost their lives, including the first respondents. Last week, it was one of 20 percent of employees who fired after reducing the CDC World Center Health Program.

He wrote that he was fired because “your abilities, knowledge and skills do not meet the agency’s current needs, and your work was not sufficient to justify further work in the agency,” although he had a history of sacred reviews.

In a joint statement, the Senators of the New York Chuck Shumer and Kirsten Gilibrand wrote: “Trump administration should come clean with any dirty deal less.”

But why are they not in front of cameras with cute victims such as Gardner, what makes these stories brighter?

The red states also feel a thicket. In Idaho, where seven national forests live, staff fired protested on the Draconic Forest Service cuts On Monday, together with nationwide protests, “not my president’s day”. Idaho officials do not comment.

Usually GOP was obedient in these cuts – though they Speech for special treatment For their voters. Senator Alabama Katie Britus protested against the reduction of research that has been universities by the state. Susan Collins Meng expressed concern about the reduction of the services in the forest and the park, as well as to the research institutes. Western Virginia Senator Shely Moore Capa also protested against the reduction-their disproportionately low-income state is one of the most dependent on federal costs. But they did not unite to resist clearly unconstitutional reduction of federal costs, even if Congress has a glorious “purse”.

You might think that North Carolina’s Senator Tom Tilis will make a noise of approximately 84 percent to help restore his state after Hurricane Helen. But Tilis was last quoted by saying allies that he did not oppose Trump with -wa ‘reliable threats of death“Against him for criticizing Trump’s office.

I expect more from the Democrats in Congress, but they are slowly absorbed. The House of Democratic Leader Hockey Jeffrist He urges his members to bring some of these victims of dismissal as guests when Trump appeals to Congress on March 4, but it causes me risky and some delay. Such addresses are usually big news for the president, mostly, and it is difficult to find out how much attention the “guests” will receive in lighting.

As more federal workers pursue their own protests – from Washington, Colombia County, Portland, Oregon, Philadelphia and, Aido – and also talk to the media, using your names, feel more opportunities direct the real grassroots. Luft. The cattle goes behind the technological proverb to “move quickly and break things.” But, so quickly, creating the victims of real life of their cruelty, it gives the Democrats the opportunity they need to take advantage.