The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.
With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.
Workers preparing to leave government as part of the resignation program – one of several pillars of Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce – have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.
“Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,” a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. “That’s why I left.”
The total resignation program is set to cost $14.8bn, with 200,000 workers paid their full salary and benefits while on administrative leave for up to eight months, according to a Senate Democrats’ report in July.
So, think about how satisfied people are with the current state of federal public services. Now remove hundreds of thousands of workers and add them to the competition for work in a fake job market.
Oh boy, 200,000 more people looking for work, surely this won’t negatively impact the job market. Or like, decrease consumer spending in an already unstable K shaped recovery.
Complete collapse is the goal. Then we’ll put up with anything for shelter and meagre rations.
This weekend, I noticed that global news and some American news stations were both reporting on estimated mass job loss due to AI.
Ford is estimating 50% white collar job losses, but of course, they also say that job creation will also happen.
Interestingly enough, the thing these networks did mention was that it was uncertain where the concentration of wealth would go. I thought that was interesting as usually these sources of news often have a right lean. Admitting it is unclear where the excess wealth would go and seems to go against the right wing narrative.
So in the somewhat near future, we’ll also see mass job loss? I wonder how this will play out. Like they have to do something, otherwise society won’t be able to function
We had four mass shootings in half a day. I’d not exactly consider that a functioning society.
Playing coy about where the money is going isn’t impressive journalism; quite the reverse. Some place it’s been going for decades.
