Trump administration offers roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign
www.nbcnews.com
An email went out to the federal workforce Tuesday evening, with a subject line that had ties to Elon Musk.

lol, lmao even

Been said before, but a speed run of the collapse of the American Empire was supposed to take years, not months. This is next level tech and hopefully we can see a Project 2025 ghoul at this year’s SGDQ

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    84·
    2 days ago

    People are missing the actual point of this. It is a bribes based government purge. It is actually pretty brilliant and also terrifying.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      56·
      2 days ago

      More or less.

      This is how a lot of companies these days avoid ‘layoffs’, they offer things like this where people who know they will be fired, or who are close to retirement, or who want to go elsewhere, take the severance because it’s better than just being canned (or leaving) anyway

      • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        49·
        2 days ago

        The goal is to “drain the swamp” of all federal workers to both reduce the size and capacity of the federal govt, to of course be replaced by the private sector, and purge the federal government of non-loyalists so that he can replace them with loyalists.

        By doing all he’s done this past week - forced return to office, freezing funds and communication, freezing travel and just generally making it impossible for people to do their work, he gives them a reason to want to leave. He then sweetens the deal by offering buyouts to those who leave. So either stay at your job and deal with roadblocks and a toxic work environment, or take a buyout and get pay and benefits through September.

        Edit: btw he did this to the USDA in his first term. Decided to move parts of the agency out to Kansas City. Many with lives and families in DC didn’t want to go. So now those offices of the USDA have been gutted. No buyout, but a similar goal, find a way to force federal workers to leave.

        https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2020/south-carolina-republican-party-silver-elephant-gala/530539 at 40:06