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“They wanted to show they were gutting the government, but there was no thought about what parts might be worth keeping,” said one FDA staffer who was fired and rehired. “Now it feels like it was all just a game to them.”

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Who knows, maybe you have more decades of federal service than me which incentivized you to learn more about past events affecting the federal workforce…

      But I’m often right about this stuff.

      Quick edit:

      In case youre out righting doubting the Clinton reduction and made the comment instead of googling:

      According to testimony from Elaine Karmarck, the director of Clinton’s initiative, it eliminated 426,200 federal roles between January 1993 and September 2000.

      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-trump-federal-workers/

      trump won’t match those numbers, because Feds trusted the programs under Clinton. No one left in the Fed trusts trump to hold up his end of any programs.

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        1 month ago

        There’s a shit ton of nuance that you’re leaving out. According to the article you posted, it took 6 months just for the review process to see what could be done. Then years later for that number to be reached. Even states in the article that both aren’t similar.

        It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s that you’re presenting it poorly.