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Eugene

(66,418 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:40 PM Tuesday

After cost-cutting blitz, Trump administration rehires hundreds of laid-off employees

Source: Associated Press

After cost-cutting blitz, Trump administration rehires hundreds of laid-off employees

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and RYAN J. FOLEY
Updated 5:49 PM EDT, September 23, 2025

MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.

“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”

Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had gone too far, too fast.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-gsa-fired-employees-ce18553b281fbf5816ec2fd491d79b78

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Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)
1. So it ended up costing quite a bit of money to the taxpayer to save money.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:47 PM
Tuesday

GSA racked up high bills covering the increased costs of no management and no employees.

All a giant expensive mess.

yellow dahlia

(3,175 posts)
6. I just changed it to "We" told you so.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:43 PM
Tuesday

It has really been a lot of us out here sounding the alarms. It truly is a WE.

But none of us take pleasure in it. The damage is so painful to watch.

Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)
9. Yes YD. It is one of those times where it is very painful to be right.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:50 PM
Tuesday

So very painful to watch the destruction of everything we hold dear.

Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)
5. No doubt that was part of the plan.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:41 PM
Tuesday

Fire everyone. But keep the loyalists on the payroll, a nice vacation,
then bring only them back.

Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)
10. If they just did nothing at all, the world would be a better place.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:53 PM
Tuesday

But yes imagine their time and energy going to good.
It would be a heaven like planet.

I always told my daughter, try to be a plus on the planet.
For god's sake don't be a minus.
And being a zero is not a great goal either.

But in the case of Trump and his pals, being a zero would be a blessing.

IcyPeas

(24,296 posts)
13. And timing might be interesting... trump and musk are pals again:
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:01 PM
Tuesday

They were seen sitting together at the charlie kirk memorial.

Trump and Musk make up

Molly Ploofkins (@mollyploofkins.bsky.social) 2025-09-21T21:24:52.071Z


Elon got the message, he's back in the open again, he never left Trump he just needed to remove himself so people would stop sinking Tesla with protests.

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T11:02:28.144Z


Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)
14. Yes did we get played? Play acting to save Musk's ass.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:04 PM
Tuesday

Tesla was sinking like a stone.

So we had a high school level skit about their "feud."

yellow dahlia

(3,175 posts)
7. Oh - of course. I hadn't thought of that.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:45 PM
Tuesday

Just like they will destroy agencies, and then recreate them through privatization.

pat_k

(11,888 posts)
15. Unless they hire back the estimated 154,000 who took the "not a buyout," buyout...
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:07 PM
Tuesday

those people will hit the October jobs report like a tsunami (they are technically employed through 9/30, so the job losses won't be reported until the Oct report comes out in early November).

Won't be a very happy holiday for the state of the economy.

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