US civil service workers: Congress must fight Trump layoffs
In the offices of the United States Senate, newly fired civil service employees have been gathering regularly to lobby Congress into doing more to fight President Donald Trump's apparent war on government workers.
Wherever you look, there's chaos, and I ask Congress to just pick a battle and fight it.
Either care about your constituents and the people who have lost their jobs, their livelihoods, their careers, look at the rampant abuse of power that is being perpetrated by Elon Musk, who is accountable to no one, answerable to no one.
That is Congress's job to step in, to look at what is happening, and they're nowhere to be found.
Alma Aliaj, USAID Ex-employee
Trump’s initial agenda calls for more tax cuts for the rich and corporations, and to pay for that, there will likely be hundreds of thousands of job cuts by the new Department of Government Efficiency, headed by billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk.
This has required a propaganda effort which labels government employees as lazy, absent, parasitical and not smart enough for the private sector.
But civil service workers know that those types of ideas are foolish.
I know that me and my colleagues are extremely hard working and dedicated. We do what we do out of love. We take a pay cut to do it.
You know, in the private sector, people doing the same jobs get paid about 25% more. You know, we take that pay cut because these jobs offer stability overall …, of course, these policies are changing their reputation.
And we do what we do because it makes me happy. I mean, I myself follow the childhood dream to be a wildlife biologist. I wanted to follow this career since I was five years old, and I had it for one year when it was suddenly ripped away from me for no reason.
Ben Vizzachero, USDA Forest Service Ex-employee
The vast layoffs will likely push the economy into a recession and drastically affect the few but critical government services still provided for in American liberal democracy.
What do government workers do? The shortest answer may be a little bit of everything and often quite a lot of it.
They are now caught in the crossfire of the West's almost two-century ideological war between top down, small government Liberal Democrats and bottom up, big government socialist inspired Democrats.
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