The Department of Transport is panicking after experiencing a much higher amount of voluntary resignations than expected.

The Department of Transport is scrambling to retain its staff after thousands volunteered to resign.

About 4,700 people applied for a second resignation offer, amounting to around 9% of the agency’s total workforce.

The vast majority of offers are said to come from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Employees facing resignation have been forced to attend a series of “career transition” workshops, described as “insulting.”

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I don’t understand how Trump is firing so many people and still spending a lot more money than previous presidents?

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Employee salaries make up like 5% of the federal budget

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Because he picked a single apple off the highest part of the tree, instead of the low hanging fruit that the DoD/Pentagon currently has on full display.

Climbed right past them, all the way to the top, to pick the smallest fucking apple that hurts the most people.

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Hurting people was always the point.

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Doesn’t help that dod pentagon is so big because the USD is so strong. Kinda bad for national defense if the dollar loses value.

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Doesn’t help that dod pentagon is so big because the USD is so strong. Kinda bad for national defense if the dollar loses value.

Looks at the USD forex over the last month. Umm, I think I have some bad news…

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To answer the question you wrote:

I don’t understand how Trump is firing so many people and still spending a lot more money than previous presidents[; explain] ?

It costs money to move or get or toss people. Doge is spending a LOT on this ‘churn’ cost with no idea whom it should fire and why it shouldn’t fire so many. Because they’re kids led by an idiot, and not much comprehension in the group.

So they pay severance and kick the people out with no transition. And planes fall out of the sky. And when they realize they fucked up, or the courts tell them how they fucked up, they need to beg people to come back. I think they do not get their severance money back.

Dotcoms trying to run a gov is just tragic comedy.

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It would be prohibitively expensive to bring me back. I’d be paying taxes in the top bracket and my signing bonus would be 7 figures.

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Increases in defense spending and increases in tax cuts for the rich (which isn’t really spending more, but reduces government revenue which thereby increases budget deficits.

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It wasn’t about cutting spending, DOGE has three objectives:

  • seize control over our institutions
  • collect data that could be used to blackmail people
  • cut pesky investigations that were bothering elon
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I’m gonna need to see the math on that second point.

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You forgot increases in travel expenses so that he can line his heavily inflated golf club coffers with lovely taxpayer lucre.

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Increases in other contracts that funnel tax money into oligarc pockets but provide no value to tax payers, decrease in revenue collected to offset expenses due to IRS cuts and tax code changes, and the other big one is from judicial fund settlements that have already surpassed pre trump levels.

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Trump’s a s*** show

FTFY

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“I’ll come back when Trump is in jail, and the GOP are not in office”

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Career Transition workshops after you resign… Lol capitalist are some of the dumbest people. You don’t want people that already resigned to actually leave, but don’t improve working condition and pay. Just a few meetings about how shitty the job market is and how leaving would turn your old job into hell on earth. My two we resignation would quickly become two weeks of doing fuck all but work.

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Lol eat shit loser. Should have thought of that before you got in bed with a fascist.

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