If you work for the federal government, there’s a good chance you could get the pink slip — or at least a severance package before you’re shown the door to the new Trump administration, On The Money has learned.
In a move to tame the leviathan known as the large federal workforce, President-elect Donald Trump created a “Department of Government Efficiency,” headed by Tesla chief Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
The dynamic duo — charged with hacking $2 trillion in waste and abuse costs — has set its sights on eliminating some of the government jobs deemed untouchable because of civil service rules, people close to the matter said. .
They are looking at ways around these rules. During Trump I, Donald signed an executive order designed to give the White House the power to fire civil servants if it does so en masse; you have to hit entire departments and not individual jobs to avoid civil service rules.
They are also weighing private sector methods that include awarding severance packages. Businesses do this all the time of course; for some short-term pain in terms of initial costs, you gain greater savings in the future.
But it’s unusual for the public, and the cuts are sure to be met with resistance; That’s why Trump advisers are weighing severance deals — paying wages and benefits for several years — to lure people out before their jobs are eliminated, people close to Trump tell On The Money.
We all know how much Trump hates the so-called deep state — those supposedly nameless, faceless bureaucrats who wield enormous power in government. In reality, these people have faces and names, and there are literally tens of millions of them who hold powerful positions in various federal agencies who really don’t know anyone in the White House.
Musk and Ramaswamy were Trump’s top economic advisers during the campaign, and both believe the federal government is more wasteful than any business they’ve ever seen. Elon is particularly adept at cutting inefficient jobs; remember after he bought Twitter and renamed it X, he eliminated over 80% of the social media platform’s workforce without much trouble.
No one likes to be fired, especially a government employee who can call him from home most of the time. That said, this could get messy, but Trump’s people say the fight is necessary. And they have the right people to lead the effort.
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