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.
You know how people look back at history and go “the situation back then wasn’t perfect, but the idiotic way some in power tried to fix it just made it soooo much worse!”…
Yeah, this is the next step up in the current cycle of this. In centuries to come anyone who is
aboutable to reflect on things will not look at Johnson et al at all favorably.start with yourself, cunt.
Calling him a cunt is an insult to cunts.
Depth, warmth, etc
Isn’t that like several hundred thousands of employees? Suddenly unemployment will be sky high and you think health care CEOs are going to be looking over their shoulders now? Just wait. Mike will need his own presidential security detail to just look outside.
There are roughly 2 million US government employees. So 1.5 million people unemployed? Which wouldn’t send unemployment sky high, but pretty high.
1.5 million in direct unemployment, but consider the knock on unemployment for all the services those workers won’t need. Coffee shops, dry cleaners, parking lots, Uber/Lift drivers, childcare, etc. Employed people pay for services while employed that are directly tied to that employment and those businesses will also layoff their workers when these jobs disappear
The DC economy would shutter.
1.5 million people who know how the system works hell bent on fucking over one shitty human.
You gotta add the state agencies who are supported by federal agencies. So like 50 -100k for every red state.
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.
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.
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.
Sounds like a CEO move. Anyone on his street?
When does he get finished with his shareholder meeting?
If this happens there would be a blue wave that took over and would spend the next 4+ years trying to reduce the bleeding which is long enough for many non politically engaged people to forget it was the republicans that started it, who would then blame the Democrats for screwing up the economy .
The wrong people will die due to how callous, and/or stupid the trump administration will be.
Ah yes the old “government so small they can drown it in a bathtub” plan. They want all this cut. But also want to police abortion and trans people. Small but only in the areas they want.
There are people who, disturbed by “big government” today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand “less govern- ment.” Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.
—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981
Easier said than done. Dems can use the fillibuster and a lot of gutting of federal agencies require going through a budget committee as well. Things move slow in congress and they have 2 years to slash everything…
Who are the Dems? Never heard of them
I think that’s the party that is paid to loose…
Cool. So, like the ATF, the DEA, the IRS, and the NSA?
What, not those agencies? Curious.
Seeing as how there’s a growing dissent toward politicians and health-care CEOs, maybe bringing up axes isn’t the smartest thing right now?
Of course I’m joking, but 75%? Why not an equally plausible number like 120% of federal agencies?
This is typical melee weapon escalation. First they came for my axe. Then they came for my zweihänder. Finally they came for my quarter staff.
Ax thyself firstly foul hypocrit
Republicans wanted Milei style austerity and American voters wanted Republicans.
We all get what America voted for and good luck with that economy there.
It’s a libertarian wet dream…. That will fuck over regular people for decades…
If they actually start doing this, none of them will be in office in 4 years.
I don’t think they’re planning to have elections again…
I agree. I didn’t mean they would be voted out.
You’re probably waiting for someone smart to do something though, right? You can’t. Family job etc… not worth the risk?
There is still a good chance their plans will fail due to incompetence or greed. If that doesn’t happen, there will be a lot of people without much left to lose.
MAGA Mike can eat my Johnson.
