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Trump Admin Offers Severance to Every Federal Employee
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People are missing the actual point of this. It is a bribes based government purge. It is actually pretty brilliant and also terrifying.
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
Am I just clueless
but what do you mean? Do you mean, bribing people who will stay on???
No, it's bribing people to leave without making a fuss.
Ah right I think I understand
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
He also moved the BLM headquarters from DC to some mining town in Colorado
Buying goodwill from people you would have fired anyway