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.
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.
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.
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.