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***** OFFICIAL PURGING OF THE DEEP STATE *****
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2025 will end with biggest decrease in federal workforce in decades, 300K fewer. Breitbart:
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In what is being called the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II, 2025 will end with 300,000 fewer workers employed by the United States government.
New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told several news outlets, most recently the New York Times, that the federal workforce will drop from 2.4 million to 2.1 million employees, largely as the result of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts.
In a lengthy interview this week with Washington, DC, station WTOP, Kupor said that up to 80 percent of the reductions come from federal workers choosing to access buyouts or another program that paid them while they looked for other work.
nortex97 said:
2025 will end with biggest decrease in federal workforce in decades, 300K fewer. Breitbart:Quote:
In what is being called the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II, 2025 will end with 300,000 fewer workers employed by the United States government.
New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told several news outlets, most recently the New York Times, that the federal workforce will drop from 2.4 million to 2.1 million employees, largely as the result of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts.
In a lengthy interview this week with Washington, DC, station WTOP, Kupor said that up to 80 percent of the reductions come from federal workers choosing to access buyouts or another program that paid them while they looked for other work.
All those workers who didn't take the deal Trump offered at the beginning of his term are kicking themselves right now.
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nortex97 said:
2025 will end with biggest decrease in federal workforce in decades, 300K fewer. Breitbart:Quote:
In what is being called the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II, 2025 will end with 300,000 fewer workers employed by the United States government.
New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told several news outlets, most recently the New York Times, that the federal workforce will drop from 2.4 million to 2.1 million employees, largely as the result of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts.
In a lengthy interview this week with Washington, DC, station WTOP, Kupor said that up to 80 percent of the reductions come from federal workers choosing to access buyouts or another program that paid them while they looked for other work.
If they averaged $100,000 per year in compensation, that's a 30 billion dollar a year savings. Add that to the cut in programatic funding, and you're starting to talk about some real money.
It was smart to move Musk out and let DOGE continue its work without all the media attention and politicization. They need to keep it going full throttle 24/7/365 until 2028. Hopefully, the next president will be a Republican and keep it going for another 4-8 years. Given the extent of the problem, it will probably take that long to identify all the WFA and run the perpetrators off.
nortex97 said:
2025 will end with biggest decrease in federal workforce in decades, 300K fewer. Breitbart:Quote:
In what is being called the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II, 2025 will end with 300,000 fewer workers employed by the United States government.
New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told several news outlets, most recently the New York Times, that the federal workforce will drop from 2.4 million to 2.1 million employees, largely as the result of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts.
In a lengthy interview this week with Washington, DC, station WTOP, Kupor said that up to 80 percent of the reductions come from federal workers choosing to access buyouts or another program that paid them while they looked for other work.
300,000 I call that a good start.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
techno-ag said:nortex97 said:
2025 will end with biggest decrease in federal workforce in decades, 300K fewer. Breitbart:Quote:
In what is being called the largest single-year cut in civilian federal employment since World War II, 2025 will end with 300,000 fewer workers employed by the United States government.
New Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told several news outlets, most recently the New York Times, that the federal workforce will drop from 2.4 million to 2.1 million employees, largely as the result of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts.
In a lengthy interview this week with Washington, DC, station WTOP, Kupor said that up to 80 percent of the reductions come from federal workers choosing to access buyouts or another program that paid them while they looked for other work.
All those workers who didn't take the deal Trump offered at the beginning of his term are kicking themselves right now.
Yeah. They are going to find this is actually the parable of the vineyard workers in reverse. He offered a very generous severance for vineyard bureaucrats to leave on the first and second pass but after the voluntary attrition is over, a lot more are going to be cut with minimal notice and minimum legal severance (and of course a chorus of leftist federal judges will issue TROs but we know how it ends).
Beautiful piece from Thomas Lifson about "Five Eyes" dimming.
Really, we shouldn't share any intelligence with the UK/NZ/Australia/Canada, imho. They are run by largely hostile governments and infiltrated with many/increasingly muslim elements. Maybe Trump could offer to sell them some intel. Subject to approval by someone at the White House.
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But, to the shock of many, the Trump administration is cutting them out of key areas of interest. Politico's European edition reports:Quote:
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is blocking America's closest intelligence allies from receiving updates on Russia-Ukraine peace talks in a shock move that upends decades of tight cooperation.
That effectively cuts America's Five Eyes partners the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand out of the loop, stunning the intelligence community that has relied on the network since the end of World War II.
In a July 20 directive signed by Gabbard, reported by CBS, the U.S. intelligence community was given orders to classify all analysis and information related to the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations as "NOFORN," or no foreign dissemination, meaning the information cannot be shared with any other country or foreign nationals.
There is no love lost between President Trump and the collective Deep State of the Anglosphere.
In concert with Deep State operatives embedded in the US intel community, spooks from half of the other four members collaborated in trying to bring down President Trump's first campaign and then successfully hobble his first term in office.
Remember Trump campaign aide young George Papadopoulos being set up -- to provide an excuse for electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign in a night of "heavy drinking" in a posh London wine bar? In that operation, top level Aussie diplomat/politician/spook Alexander Downer was joined by a comely undercover female FBI agent who called herself Azra Turk, who has never been publicly identified.
Thefemme fatale delivered the question that yielded the statement that became the alleged basis for spying on the 2016 Trump campaign. (A New York Times 2017 article that has not aged well, deadpanned:Quote:
It was not, as Mr. Trump and other politicians have alleged, a dossier compiled by a former British spy hired by a rival campaign. Instead, it was firsthand information from one of America's closest intelligence allies.
That was the very beginning of Russia, Russia, Russia as a global conspiracy to prevent Donald Trump from becoming President of the United States, and once elected, to sabotage his presidency. It was a collaboration of agencies from 3 of the 5. When the spooks decided to control who got to be president, half of the other 4 eyes were in on it from the start.
Really, we shouldn't share any intelligence with the UK/NZ/Australia/Canada, imho. They are run by largely hostile governments and infiltrated with many/increasingly muslim elements. Maybe Trump could offer to sell them some intel. Subject to approval by someone at the White House.
We have far too many goods shipped via trucks long haul vs. rail/sea.
It's all from politics. This also has helped grow the illegal alien truck driver 'population.'
Everyone tells me that shifting cargo from roads to rivers is too costly.
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) August 24, 2025
I say remove the unbelievably expensive (mostly hidden) trucking subsidies & rivers will be a MUCH cheaper option for all.
Much safer too. Moving heavy cargo to rails & rivers would save countless lives. https://t.co/mkqUY0oDH2
It's all from politics. This also has helped grow the illegal alien truck driver 'population.'
nortex97 said:
We have far too many goods shipped via trucks long haul vs. rail/sea.Everyone tells me that shifting cargo from roads to rivers is too costly.
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) August 24, 2025
I say remove the unbelievably expensive (mostly hidden) trucking subsidies & rivers will be a MUCH cheaper option for all.
Much safer too. Moving heavy cargo to rails & rivers would save countless lives. https://t.co/mkqUY0oDH2
It's all from politics. This also has helped grow the illegal alien truck driver 'population.'
Rail? Still needs to be trucked from the railheads.
Rivers? A) subject to unreliability due to floods or droughts; B) still need to be trucked from ports.
I have a railroad about 2,000 feet from the ranch house. No stops, no place to unload squat within 70 miles.
Uhm not gonna work in a country as large as ours.
Not sure what you are interpreting there but there is no 'perfect' modality for long haul freight, nor can riverine transport replace trucks entirely of course. Still, we subsidize trucks to a large degree. It's unfortunate.
The railroads have unused capacity for multi-modal freight. Railroads have invested in MM terminals where containers and semitrailers are offloaded on one side of the tracks and loaded on the opposite side in minutes.
If you can move freight for the majority of the distance from the factory to the customer on rail abd use trucks for the last 1-50 miles there is a lot of potential cost avoidance. Rail can achieve 420 ton-miles per gallon and the most efficient diesel trucks are ~90 ton miles per gallon IIRC.
If you can move freight for the majority of the distance from the factory to the customer on rail abd use trucks for the last 1-50 miles there is a lot of potential cost avoidance. Rail can achieve 420 ton-miles per gallon and the most efficient diesel trucks are ~90 ton miles per gallon IIRC.
Wow- popped in this thread to see how we're going to defeat the deep state.
Got caught up in an argument over freight hauling methods.
Solid.
Got caught up in an argument over freight hauling methods.
Solid.
Drain. The. Swamp. https://t.co/tWyafVuNjM
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) August 24, 2025
Now if we can get rid of these traitors in black robes pulling TRO's out of thin air to stall, stall, stall Trump could really get busy
The best way to keep evil men from wielding great power is to not create great power in the first place.
CLAWBACK $7.4 BILLION
— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) August 25, 2025
The Biden administration created a new entity called Natcast as a slush fund, siphoning billions in taxpayer dollars at the expense of American innovation and national security.
Commerce is clawing back more than $7.4B in tax dollars from this illegal,… pic.twitter.com/iHOBUI1C4j
CatD11Ag said:
Why am I not surprised?Paul Pelosi took out two PPP COVID relief loans for $711,708 and $996,392. Both were forgiven. pic.twitter.com/fehbwxCNTP
— SULLY (@SULLY10X) August 18, 2025
Fraud had to be involved, need a thorough investigation.
Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
"The Fourth Branch has fallen. This is the legal decapitation of the administrative coup that's hijacked power for decades. What comes next? Terminations. Restructuring. Loyalty enforcement."
"Trump is set to unleash the largest purge in American political history. Those who've betrayed the republic from within will no longer hide behind titles or obscure agency walls. The President now holds the sword and he's swinging."
"A top Trump insider put it bluntly: "This ruling doesn't just restore executive power it clears the battlefield."
"Every traitor in federal government just got marked. The days of unelected tyrants mocking the will of the people are over. The mask is off. The time for war inside the system is here. And Trump just got the green light to take them all down."
"Trump is set to unleash the largest purge in American political history. Those who've betrayed the republic from within will no longer hide behind titles or obscure agency walls. The President now holds the sword and he's swinging."
"A top Trump insider put it bluntly: "This ruling doesn't just restore executive power it clears the battlefield."
"Every traitor in federal government just got marked. The days of unelected tyrants mocking the will of the people are over. The mask is off. The time for war inside the system is here. And Trump just got the green light to take them all down."
txags92 said:akm91 said:
40% workforce = $1B+ savings? How big was ODNI and or how much was the avg salary??
Emily Kopp tweet above says they are going from 2000 to about 1300. Probably a lot of other costs saved with not having to office and provide services for 700 folks. Likely plenty of graft built into those groups too based on who started them and what their role was.
And the associated grift that was handed out?
Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
captkirk said:
Glad she's on our side
Glad she believes in the truth and justice.
Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
As usual, the swamp created some NGO entity to dole out tax dollars to slime ball democrats. I'd never heard of 'Natcast.'
More at the link. Utterly disgusting, as per usual from the Biden administration.
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick canceled an Biden administration agreement Monday to distribute billions of dollars for semiconductor research through a nonprofit set up and staffed by former political appointees, according to a letter obtained by The Post.
The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act provided for $11 billion in semiconductor research and development funding to be given out by the Commerce Department's National Semiconductor Technology Center.
"Rather than establishing these operations within the Department, however, Biden Administration officials spent significant time, effort, and resources creating an unaccountable, outside entityNatcastto administer taxpayer funds," Lutnick wrote Natcast CEO Deirdre Hanford.
Four days before Biden left office on Jan. 20, Lutnick noted, the Commerce Department agreed to set aside $7.4 billion in "advance payments" to Natcast after spending nearly two years setting it up and tapping administration officials, advisers and allies to fill out positions.
That arrangement both effectively removed the incoming Trump administration from being involved in the process and provided "virtually all" of Natcast's funding prompting incoming Departments of Justice and Commerce officials to take another look at the Sunnyvale, Calif., nonprofit.
"These actions do not just give the appearance of impropriety; they flout federal law," Lutnick told Hanford, pointing out that no provisions in the CHIPS Act authorized an outside entity like Natcast to distribute semiconductor research funds.
"The GCCA [Government Corporation Control Act] plainly prohibits agencies from establishing a corporation to act as an agency without specific authorization, and the January 16, 2025, agreement does nothing other than set forth the terms of the Biden Administration's attempt to do just that."
Natcast's selection committee included Biden White House alums like Jason Matheny, former deputy director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Kendra Wilkerson, the CEO of a nonprofit that "promotes greater equality for women and nonbinary professionals in technology fields," according to the Biden Commerce Department.
More at the link. Utterly disgusting, as per usual from the Biden administration.
I think everyone knew there was waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds, but the scale of it being revealed is just unbelievable. Absolute fleecing of the American people by a political class that believes they are entitled and unaccountable. Disgusting is right.
nortex97 said:
We have far too many goods shipped via trucks long haul vs. rail/sea.Everyone tells me that shifting cargo from roads to rivers is too costly.
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) August 24, 2025
I say remove the unbelievably expensive (mostly hidden) trucking subsidies & rivers will be a MUCH cheaper option for all.
Much safer too. Moving heavy cargo to rails & rivers would save countless lives. https://t.co/mkqUY0oDH2
It's all from politics. This also has helped grow the illegal alien truck driver 'population.'
So, this guys solution to reduce trucking and encourage barges is to make traffic miserable for everyone?
I mean, I know economics is hard, but, aren't you going to consider the lost time for the average worker who can't take a boat to their jobs every day because traffic sucks?
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
nortex97 said:
Not sure what you are interpreting there but there is no 'perfect' modality for long haul freight, nor can riverine transport replace trucks entirely of course. Still, we subsidize trucks to a large degree. It's unfortunate.
I don't want to open the door for a milage fee for Truckers. Good idea for a responsible Federal government. The problem is, there is no such thing as a responsible Federal government.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
I'm not sure what your argument really is here. The 'average worker' isn't heavy cargo Konrad sees as better delivered via ship. It's getting those trucks off the road he is talking about. The PA turnpike **** show is all about Democrat politics though, covering up their fiscal disasters going back nearly 20 years at this point.
I don't really want to debate cargo modality further however on this thread. It's use by Democrats to find subsidies for their 'team' is easy to document, but it's often at the state level, so probably too far astray from the thread which has been fun to see evolve otherwise. There's no real 'trucking' deep state.
— YetiPersisted (@YPersisted) August 25, 2025
I don't really want to debate cargo modality further however on this thread. It's use by Democrats to find subsidies for their 'team' is easy to document, but it's often at the state level, so probably too far astray from the thread which has been fun to see evolve otherwise. There's no real 'trucking' deep state.
Ulysses90 said:
The railroads have unused capacity for multi-modal freight. Railroads have invested in MM terminals where containers and semitrailers are offloaded on one side of the tracks and loaded on the opposite side in minutes.
If you can move freight for the majority of the distance from the factory to the customer on rail abd use trucks for the last 1-50 miles there is a lot of potential cost avoidance. Rail can achieve 420 ton-miles per gallon and the most efficient diesel trucks are ~90 ton miles per gallon IIRC.
Railroad stocks have all just about quadrupled over the last decade. Railroad capacity for intermodal is expanding through capital investment.
The biggest factor in expanding rail is real estate cast and eminent domain issues, not the fact that Trucks use our highways.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
captkirk said:CLAWBACK $7.4 BILLION
— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) August 25, 2025
The Biden administration created a new entity called Natcast as a slush fund, siphoning billions in taxpayer dollars at the expense of American innovation and national security.
Commerce is clawing back more than $7.4B in tax dollars from this illegal,… pic.twitter.com/iHOBUI1C4j
If you want to leave a mark, you need to go after the personal assets of the people who signed the illegal contract. Everyone that both helped structure this deal and also received any money from this deal needs to give all that money back or face jailtime.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
now when there are still 2.1 million Feds left!!
many more most be fired.
entire departments such as Agriculture should be moved to Iowa
Interior should be moved to South Dakota
Labor should be moved to West Virginia.
many more most be fired.
entire departments such as Agriculture should be moved to Iowa
Interior should be moved to South Dakota
Labor should be moved to West Virginia.
BusterAg said:captkirk said:CLAWBACK $7.4 BILLION
— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) August 25, 2025
The Biden administration created a new entity called Natcast as a slush fund, siphoning billions in taxpayer dollars at the expense of American innovation and national security.
Commerce is clawing back more than $7.4B in tax dollars from this illegal,… pic.twitter.com/iHOBUI1C4j
If you want to leave a mark, you need to go after the personal assets of the people who signed the illegal contract. Everyone that both helped structure this deal and also received any money from this deal needs to give all that money back or face jailtime.
Hence the term "clawback"
captkirk said:BusterAg said:captkirk said:CLAWBACK $7.4 BILLION
— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) August 25, 2025
The Biden administration created a new entity called Natcast as a slush fund, siphoning billions in taxpayer dollars at the expense of American innovation and national security.
Commerce is clawing back more than $7.4B in tax dollars from this illegal,… pic.twitter.com/iHOBUI1C4j
If you want to leave a mark, you need to go after the personal assets of the people who signed the illegal contract. Everyone that both helped structure this deal and also received any money from this deal needs to give all that money back or face jailtime.
Hence the term "clawback"
Yes, clawback from the NGO's coffers. But, all that money paid from the NGO to the Director of the NGO, that needs to get clawed back too.
Sorry, Mr. Rich man North of Richmond, we have a special unit in the Department of Treasury that is going to prove you paid for that yacht with this illegal contract that you signed. That yacht now belongs to Treasury. Feel free to sue us and prove that the yacht is innocent if you want it back.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
BusterAg said:Ulysses90 said:
The railroads have unused capacity for multi-modal freight. Railroads have invested in MM terminals where containers and semitrailers are offloaded on one side of the tracks and loaded on the opposite side in minutes.
If you can move freight for the majority of the distance from the factory to the customer on rail abd use trucks for the last 1-50 miles there is a lot of potential cost avoidance. Rail can achieve 420 ton-miles per gallon and the most efficient diesel trucks are ~90 ton miles per gallon IIRC.
Railroad stocks have all just about quadrupled over the last decade. Railroad capacity for intermodal is expanding through capital investment.
The biggest factor in expanding rail is real estate cast and eminent domain issues, not the fact that Trucks use our highways.
The class I railroads, particularly CSX and NS, have thousands of miles of unused railroad right of way. A lot of this rail has been dormant since the end of WWII or simce the automobile replaced the horse. You can see it in satellite imagery overgrown in forest but also in cities. Many cities have taken RR right of way under eminent domain for parks and green spaces or simply to sell it for development that will grow the tax base.
A large portion of the potential for replacing trucks with railroad freight is not with the class 1 railroads but with "short line" railroads that serve niche markets carry heavy dense freight less than 100 miles from field, mine, or quarry to where it is processed into useful material. Short freight train with 10 cars still replace ~50 truck loads and drivers. The trucks being replaced are more likely dump trucks than semitrailers.
Ulysses90 said:BusterAg said:Ulysses90 said:
The railroads have unused capacity for multi-modal freight. Railroads have invested in MM terminals where containers and semitrailers are offloaded on one side of the tracks and loaded on the opposite side in minutes.
If you can move freight for the majority of the distance from the factory to the customer on rail abd use trucks for the last 1-50 miles there is a lot of potential cost avoidance. Rail can achieve 420 ton-miles per gallon and the most efficient diesel trucks are ~90 ton miles per gallon IIRC.
Railroad stocks have all just about quadrupled over the last decade. Railroad capacity for intermodal is expanding through capital investment.
The biggest factor in expanding rail is real estate cast and eminent domain issues, not the fact that Trucks use our highways.
The class I railroads, particularly CSX and NS, have thousands of miles of unused railroad right of way. A lot of this rail has been dormant since the end of WWII or simce the automobile replaced the horse. You can see it in satellite imagery overgrown in forest but also in cities. Many cities have taken RR right of way under eminent domain for parks and green spaces or simply to sell it for development that will grow the tax base.
A large portion of the potential for replacing trucks with railroad freight is not with the class 1 railroads but with "short line" railroads that serve niche markets carry heavy dense freight less than 100 miles from field, mine, or quarry to where it is processed into useful material. Short freight train with 10 cars still replace ~50 truck loads and drivers. The trucks being replaced are more likely dump trucks than semitrailers.
So is the mining and quarrying the connection to the "deep state"? Because I am not seeing how any of this discussion belongs on this thread?
No, it went back to the observation (https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3523575/replies/70689968) that the number of illegal alien truck drivers receiving CDLs from deep state bureaucrats was related to an overreliance on highway trucking vs. rail and barge. It went off on a railroad tangent at that point.
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