their true mission is PURE CORRUPTION

Eventually, this'll all come out.

that is said about a lot of repuke corruption but it doesn't always seem to happen, seems like voters often hold Dems accountable for repuke garbage

I’m not at all convinced it was “savings.”

The post office is in shambles, shipping times for letters and packages are WAY up. NOAA and the Natl. Weather Service have been badly hurt, because of cutbacks in data gathering forecasts are far less accurate. Customer service at Social Security is now horrendous. The VA is falling apart. And on and on.

My personal opinion is that repukes want to ransack all of these agencies in order to justify "saving" them through privatization.

all the people thrown out of the workforce. And I'm not just talking about the direct Federal workers stripped of their jobs, but the dominoes down the line, too. For every contract supposedly cancelled, there are multiples of workers who were either tossed out of their jobs, or were never allowed to start them. These actions happened whether or not the money was supposedly stripped, even if it's just sitting in a coffee can in the department, commission, etc. waiting to be spent. No doubt it will be repurposed for something more important than the people and the expertise that were so important prior to all this crap happening. And that doesn't mention the crisis all these people feel as they struggle to find something with which to support their family in a country that is losing vast numbers of good paying jobs. Is it any wonder so many who can are finding jobs in research facilities elsewhere in the world? It seems that just about any place is better than the United States.

I think the mess they made will cost far more to clean up than any "savings".

He always marked up the amount if he had to "undo" what someone else who had undercut him initially had already done. It ALWAYS takes more money and more labor to undo a bad job than to a good job from the very beginning. This is something our government has always been fighting. Something about penny wise and pound foolish, I think the saying goes...

is that anyone would believe any of it.

It's a huge cost when you consider mistakes and time lost from other activities, until the replacement workers get up to speed.

What? The Repukes didn't tell you that? Well of course not ... because it spoils their little fairytale about how much money they "saved."

If I stop going to the dentist, I haven't "saved" the cost of my dental care. In fact, I've probably increased it wastefully by assuring more expensive care will be needed later.

We need to stop accepting their idiotic framing. Yeah yeah, the headline is required. Whatever. Pick a better headline for the same story.

When you look at all the damage they did to all those Federal Agencies, the final tally could easily exceed $1 trillion over the long run.

I came to post this thought! Agreed! And well-expressed.

That is what is was really about. Investigations into StarLink, SpaceX, Tesla...

I am a fed on the DRP. I have been collecting a paycheck since April and not working. I led a team in charge of huge and complex contracts including emergency response. We. All. Quit. Or. Retired.


The loss of institutional knowledge is staggering. The costs have not yet been realized.

They just found places where they and Trump could exploit for their own gain

and cripple multiple Federal agencies that Cons have ideological hostility towards.

The "savings" were irrelevant.