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Sen. Tim Kaine:

When you fire #veterans working for the US government, fire staff & close programs for #Vets at the #VeteransAdministration, this is a war on veterans. And they can't claim this is accidental.

Amy McGrath's theory: DoD is currently lead by a guy who has wanted to privatize the #VA, and so the idea is to gut it, make it worse so there's an outcry against it [Me: and artificially create support for #privatization].

#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge

#VMI's 1st Black superintendent says ouster's based on politics, not job performance
https://apnews.com/article/vmi-black-superintendent-cedric-wins-virginia-544bb0d267f915e78f7ad890300a6ee7

VMI is an official #Virginia State institution. #VAgov Youngkin's fingerprints are all over this move motivated by #Trump/ MAGA's racist anti-#DEI fever dream.

#Racism #TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #DOGE #DOGEpurge

Alex Witt/MSNBC:

All 80,000 #HHS employees, incl MDs, have rec'd an UNSIGNED letter offering them a payout if they resign. Many, if not all, are leery of it since they have no idea who or where it came from &/or don't believe they'll get paid in the end anyway.

#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #RFKjrPurge #RFKjr #Trust #Health #Healthcare

About 30% of #CivilService employees in the federal government are #veterans, & many have lost jobs in #Trump’s drive to cut federal spending. Trump & #ElonMusk, who is leading the *cutbacks*, have fired about 20,000 workers on probationary status — & about 6,000 were veterans.

#TrumpPurge #TrumpCoup #Musk #DOGE #kleptocracy #plutocracy #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #idiocracy #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/veteran-firings-trump-musk-democrats.html?smid=url-share

The #Trump admin has told #FederalAgencies leaders that they can ignore the public decree from #ElonMusk to effectively fire employees who do not send in bullet-point summaries of their work last week, according to 3 people familiar with the matter, a break with the billionaire who has exerted significant power to slash the 2.3-million-person federal workforce.

#TrumpPurge #Musk #DOGE #law #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/24/musk-email-government-confusion/

Take action to save public services at
savepublicservices.com.

#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #TrumpCouo #MuskCoup

The #Trump Admin Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets #FederalWorkers

A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpPurge #DOGE #Musk #USpol
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth

Jake Auchincloss to Ayman:

#DOGE firing employees is misdirection: it does NOT reduce the budget.

Federal employees account for about 5% of the federal budget.

#MuskTrumpPurge #TrumpMuskPurge #MuskPurge #TrumpPurge

Seen on 🦋:

"Power always thinks it has a great Soul, and vast Views, beyond the Comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws."
- John Adams

#TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #TrumpFreeze #MuskCoup #MuskPurge #MuskFreeze #TrumpMuskPurge #TrumpMuskChaos #MuskTrumpPurge #MuskTrumpChaos

The #DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun

It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.

#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #TrumpMuskPurge #MuskTrumpPurge

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-brain-drain-has-begun-science-government-cuts-budget-researchers?utm_medium=email

Oopsie!

#TrumpMuskPurge just wrecked an NIH org championed by #GOPers, who once lavished praise on #NIH center that deals w/#Alzheimers. Donald Trump & Elon Musk are hobbling it.

What will those Republicans say now?

Hope you like the sound of crickets. https://newrepublic.com/article/191702/trump-musk-national-institutes-health-wrecked

#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #MushTrumpPurge

US Citizens:

If you haven't already been alerted, you might want to check this page from #SSA to see what the current status of your local #SocialSecurity office is:
https://www.ssa.gov/agency/emergency/?utm_campaign=emergencypage&utm_content=ctabtn&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#V

#TrumpPurge #MuskPurge
#TrumpMuskPurge

From @jeremy_kress on 🦋:

The #FDIC is funded by fees paid by banks.

Firing FDIC bank examiners saves zero taxpayer dollars and puts the whole #economy at risk.
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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/fdic-fires-probationary-employees-amid-continued-agency-cull

#Banking #TrumpPurge #MuskPurge #DOGE

US Catholic bishops sue Trump administration for halt in funding for #refugee settlement
https://apnews.com/article/catholic-bishops-lawsuit-refugee-resettlement-trump-administration-09477d766651a940ae53840ce3bd9c6e

Yesssss...!

#CatholicTwitter
#CatholicChurch
#Asylum
#Immigration
#DOGE
#MuskTrumpFreeze
#TrumpFreeze
#MuskTrumpPurge
#TrumpPurge

Trump/Musk know their hatchet job on #USAID #Medicaid #SocialSecurity #Medicare #VA etc will cause the death of many. Not only do they not care, it's most likely their intent.

This is #ProLife?

Confirms #GOP's false claim #Obamacare provided for "death tribunals" to be the insincere & malicious disinfo it transparently always was.

#TrumpPurge #TrumpCoup #TrumpMuskPurge

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on State of The Union tells Dana Bash that the emails Dem legislators are getting from constituents are evidence they can use to combat the Evil (my word, not hers) Musk/Trump/#GOP Axis (likewise, my term, not hers).

Keep sending those emails to your members of #Congress!

Especially those emails detailing any adverse effects &/or harms caused by the Trump/Musk/#GOP kneecapping of the Federal govt.

#TrumpChaos #TrumpPurge

US District Judge Ana Reyes, appointed by Biden, refuses to immediately reinstate #InspectorsGeneral fired by Trump, excoriating their lawyers for waiting 3wks to file emergency relief.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/politics/trump-inspectors-general-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU4.JfSI.BEZVYlCS99z3

Won't link to the conservative Washington Examiner gleeful report. No doubt RW media will be all over it.

What might acct for Judge Reyes' unnecessarily humiliating words?

Maybe she feels a target on her back? You bet the judge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_C._Reyes

#Musk/TrumpFirings #TrumpPurge

Interview: I Was Fired by Trump in his Anti-DEI Purge, Gutting of Agencies

Karla Gilbride from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was fired by Trump along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the workplace.

The EEOC was created as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is tasked with investigating discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex & other characteristics.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/5/trump_purge

#TrumpPurge #Musk #BoughtGovernment #USPol .