"The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to fire Federal Emergency Management Agency staff who have worked on addressing climate change or promoting equity and diversity, according to interviews and emails obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News — on top of the hundreds of probationary employees it removed during Presidents Day weekend."

~ Thomas Frank

#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #FEMA #workers #firings #economy
/2

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/19/fema-email-firings-affect-majority-staff-00204779

"Best estimates are now that around 200,000 federal workers have lost their jobs due to DOGE and Trump. An estimated 75,000 more have accepted buyouts."

~ David Pepper

#Musk #Trump #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy
/3

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/a-letter-from-ukraine

"I doubt many voted for Trump (none for Musk, certainly) because they wanted to increase aircraft accidents and food poisonings while holding back medical science—let alone because they wanted to increase unemployment and shrink the economy. But that is what they are getting—it’s what we’re all getting.

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #PublicHealth #AirSafety #medicine #research
/5

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/they-broke-it-they-own-it

"You should see the DOGE debacle in tandem with what looks like a looming budget crackup in Congress. Republicans took control of Congress screaming about the evils of budget deficits, but also determined to ram through huge tax cuts for the wealthy."

~ Paul Krugman

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #EconomicElites
/6

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-explosion-of-lies

"Twice this week Trump vowed to end Social Security for 'millions'—believe him."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #EconomicElites #SocialSecurity
/7

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/twice-this-week-trump-vowed-to-end

"Despite troubling headlines about disease outbreaks and pushback from the medical community, Trump and his newly confirmed health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have moved quickly since Friday to terminate thousands of highly trained employees at the CDC and other Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies tasked with protecting public health."

~ Mike Ludwig

#Musk #Trump #RFKJr #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #PublicHealth
/8

https://truthout.org/articles/bird-flu-looms-as-trumps-mass-firings-unleash-chaos-at-public-health-agencies/

"While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for their agency — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to nearly $40 million, ProPublica found in a review of Office of Management and Budget records."

~ Avi Asher-Schapiro, Andy Kroll, Christopher Bing

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #EconomicElites
/9

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-trump-musk-funding-foia-congress-transparency

"A lot of the people who have been fired have been Trump voters or relatives of Trump voters, who — like so many Trump-voting relatives and spouses of undocumented immigrants — thought they would get a pass. ...

'I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting,' one anonymous disabled veteran from Virginia who lost his job at FEMA told WTOP News."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Musk #Trump #destruction #firings #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #EconomicElites
/10

https://www.wonkette.com/p/when-republicans-said-they-wanted

"It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020."

~ Jesse Rothstein

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #chaos #destruction #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #EconomicElites
/11

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/is-the-next-trump-recession-about