Summary

House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to cut 75% of federal agencies, reducing them from 428 to 99, in collaboration with Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), led by Vivek Ramaswamy.

Johnson’s agenda includes defunding PBS, Planned Parenthood, and curbing the “administrative state” through legislation and executive orders under Donald Trump.

Critics warn such cuts would impact jobs, healthcare, and essential services.

Backed by recent Supreme Court rulings limiting agency authority, Johnson and DOGE aim to reduce federal regulations, sparking significant debate over these drastic proposals.

105 points

It just blows my mind how evil these people are. They put all this destructive effort into everything they can think of 24/7, with little to no creation of anything with benefits.

They’re little evil toddlers just smashing everything they can get thier mitts on.

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11 points

Evil is relative

They’re pretty good on team Russia

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You know how people look back at history and go “the situation back then wasn’t perfect, but the idiotic way some in power tried to fix it just made it soooo much worse!”…

Yeah, this is the next step up in the current cycle of this. In centuries to come anyone who is about able to reflect on things will not look at Johnson et al at all favorably.

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47 points

in the centuries to come, the beings that replace humans won’t know who the fuck mike johnson was.

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6 points

My original comment was supposed to say ‘able’ not ‘about’. Because I had the same thought as you.

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4 points

Nah humans will exist, we are cockroaches.

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29 points

They’re not trying to fix anything, just keep people down while they rape and plunder.

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56 points

start with yourself, cunt.

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38 points

Calling him a cunt is an insult to cunts.

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22 points

Depth, warmth, etc

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50 points

Isn’t that like several hundred thousands of employees? Suddenly unemployment will be sky high and you think health care CEOs are going to be looking over their shoulders now? Just wait. Mike will need his own presidential security detail to just look outside.

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18 points

You won’t have any agency recording unemployment levels, so there will be no details about it. All you need to know citizen is that the Trump leadership is flourishing as it enters its 6th term, and all your problems that you experience are because of minorities.

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5 points

There are roughly 2 million US government employees. So 1.5 million people unemployed? Which wouldn’t send unemployment sky high, but pretty high.

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1.5 million in direct unemployment, but consider the knock on unemployment for all the services those workers won’t need. Coffee shops, dry cleaners, parking lots, Uber/Lift drivers, childcare, etc. Employed people pay for services while employed that are directly tied to that employment and those businesses will also layoff their workers when these jobs disappear

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2 points

The DC economy would shutter.

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13 points

1.5 million people who know how the system works hell bent on fucking over one shitty human.

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2 points

Does that 2 million include contractors?

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7 points

No, though I imagine they would rather hire a ton of contractors and end up paying them more

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2 points

You gotta add the state agencies who are supported by federal agencies. So like 50 -100k for every red state.

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40 points

Sounds like a CEO move. Anyone on his street?

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