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Mass email tells federal employees not to blame Trump for government shutdown (federalnewsnetwork.com)

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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 64 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Uh, yes he is. He and his shadow daddies even had a contingency plan in place to do more damage even faster in the event of a shutdown.

Russ Vought's directive to fire federal workers during a shutdown is illegal

This might come as a surprise, but it turns out the group of wealthy conservatives that have been planning to destroy America for decades, is definitely to blame for destroying America now that they're in charge of everything and are slashing and burning this entire country to the ground.

Everything is so awful, and it's because it's going according to their plan. This is exactly what they wanted, but they can't even fucking own it.

[-] Substance_P@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago

[-] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 days ago

All those people saying they wanted trump to run the government like a business. Whelp, the dude couldn’t keep a casino solvent, and now has shut the federal government down yet again. Let’s hope shit gets fixed faster than it did in 2018.

[-] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 22 points 5 days ago

Well I don't work for the gov, so I'll blame him several times over to make up for a couple.

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This article is crazy it is just covering major newsworthy stuff in like a paragraph because it is the GOP and they are much more organized on messaging

Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday afternoon that he’s in favor of shutdown-related RIFs to the federal workforce, and that “when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs.”

“We’d be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected,” Trump said. “They’re going to be Democrats.”

“A lot of good can come down from shutdowns,” he added. “We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want.”

And

A mass email assigning blame to congressional Democrats is an unusual step for agencies to take ahead of a funding lapse, and marks an escalation in rhetoric.

Aka they are telling us they are firing a lot of Democrat employees but it's okay.

[-] AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

It's almost funny seeing the unblinkimg sycophants working the same idea across the media spectrum the past few weeks in preparation.

Honestly primary these guys.

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