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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by suzzer99 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:58AM (#43066856)
If I spend 90% of my budget on mandatory items, and I cut 10% of my discretionary spending, I've shaved 1% of my total budget. Have I really accomplished that much? Is that going to keep me out of the poor house if something goes wrong? Is it worth a massive sacrifice to obtain?

Probationary employees means not just the new hires, but any federal employee who changed jobs internally in the last year. Who's going to want to work for the Federal government after this bloodbath? No one with any talent, which I'm sure is either the goal or a happy by-product.

This is about Trump and Co. destroying govt institutions they don't like, and weaponizing other institutions with loyalists. Just look at what's happening in the DoJ.

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by derangedHorse on Sunday February 16, 2025 @07:50AM (#43067607)
Most mandatory spending is on healthcare, social security, interest payments on debt. For anyone who values anything other than those things, every penny should be accounted for. The percentage of the total budget now becomes irrelevant.
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by johnnyanmac on Sunday February 16, 2025 @06:07PM (#43072727)
>For anyone who values anything other than those things

Nah, we'll cut those too: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/gop-targets-88...

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by somenameforme on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:08PM (#43075030)
As mentioned elsewhere, this is literally impossible. Directly cutting mandatory spending would require new laws which, in turn, would require a supermajority in the Senate due to the filibuster, meaning the DNC would also need to be all-in on it. On the note, keep this in mind the next time some party, which can't see past tomorrow, tries to eliminate the filibuster.

Checks and balances are very important and I'm very happy to see the GOP making 0 effort to end the filibuster in spite of it currently being rather liberally used by the DNC.

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