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Elon Musk is turning people Democrat with his mass firings as they rush to join a progressive political group, the organization’s founder has revealed.

Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, said she anticipates that many of those joining the organization, which supports and recruits Democrats under 40 to run for office, will be federal workers fired by Musk and the Trump administration.

said that the organization has seen 20,000 new sign-ups since Election Day and 10 percent of those were in the last week.

“Can confirm: @runforsomething.net has seen a *huge* spike in people signing up to run for office since Trump & Elon started illegally firing public servants,” Litman said in a post on BlueSky.

The spike in sign-ups comes as more than 20 Department of Government Efficiency staffers have resigned after refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

“I expect we will see some candidates this year and next year who will talk about how Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired them while they were working for the American people,” Litman told Politico.

Democrats are pinning their hopes that widespread anger over Musk’s DOGE could give them some momentum as they prepare to recruit for the midterms.

Former federal workers could be a key target given they are “already inclined toward public service,” Liman added, but are now “liberated from that constraint” of being nonpartisan. They are “furious and looking for action,” she added……..

Millions of Americans are more likely to be ripped off by scammers and thieves as a result of a bid by the Trump administration to defang the top US consumer watchdog, former officials have warned.

Donald Trump has indicated he wants to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was set up after the financial crisis to shore up oversight of consumer financial firms, prompting critics to accuse him of setting the stage for “one of the biggest cons” in modern memory.

The billionaire tycoon Elon Musk, engaged in a government-wide “efficiency” blitz with the president’s blessing, has suggested the agency is already dead. Only in a court filing late on Monday did Russell Vought, the CFPB’s acting director, clarify it would continue to exist – albeit in a “more streamlined and efficient” form – under the new administration.


With the CFPB incapacitated by layoffs, work stoppages and widespread confusion over its future, the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, who played a key role in setting up the agency, held a forum on its future on Capitol Hill on Tuesday alongside other Senate Democrats.

Lorelei Salas, who resigned as the CFPB’s director of supervision earlier this month, came with a stark message for consumers: the agency is “no longer able” to defend them. The threat of another financial crisis has risen, she cautioned.

“You, your family and the economy itself has become less safe, secure and stable,” said Salas. “Your parents are more likely to see their retirement threatened by scammers and fraudsters. Your kids are more likely to be ripped off, or given the runaround by their student loan company.

“Your sick spouse is more likely to be harassed by a debt collector for a medical bill they do not even owe. Your nephew who’s getting ready to be deployed overseas is more likely to be targeted by a predatory lender that sees them as just another dollar sign in a uniform.

“These are hard things to hear, but it is the truth. Millions of Americans are more likely to get ripped off because the CFPB was essentially fired from doing the job Congress gave it.”……….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agencies must develop plans to eliminate employee positions, according to a memo distributed by President Donald Trump ‘s administration that sets in motion what could become a sweeping realignment of American government.

The memo expands the Republican president’s effort to downsize the federal workforce, which he has described as bloated and impediment to his agenda. Thousands of probationary employees have already been fired, and now his administration is turning its attention to career officials with civil service protection.

Agencies are directed to submit by March 13 their plans for what is known as a reduction in force, which would not only lay off employees but eliminate the position altogether. The result could be extensive changes in how government functions.

“The federal government is costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt,” said the memo from Russell Vought, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, which functions as a human resources agency. “At the same time, it is not producing results for the American public.”

Trump foreshadowed this goal in an executive order that he signed with Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who is advising Trump on overhauling the government.

The order said agency leaders “shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force,” or RIF.

Some departments have already begin this process.

The General Services Administration, which handles federal real estate, told employees on Monday that a reduction in force was underway and they would “everything in our power to make your departure fair and dignified.”

The memo came as Trump prepared for the first Cabinet meeting of his second term. He planned to include Musk, who oversees the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE.............

My girlfriend was told that layoffs could be up to 50%

That was the rumor mill nothing official but we’re still very worried

Optimus Prime said:

My girlfriend was told that layoffs could be up to 50%

That was the rumor mill nothing official but we’re still very worried

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If you want to literally break the government, that's one way to do it.

DaveXA said:

If you want to literally break the government, that's one way to do it.

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Yep. No one to keep an eye on things and ensure that laws are followed - A wet dream for billionaires and scammers.

Here is what JUST happened within last 3 weeks re EBOLA

Musk is a liar.

efil4 said:

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Musk lying? Say it ain't so! Lmao. What a despicable piece of .

“AIDS funding cuts kill”

GOP: AIDS infected, mostly minorities in mostly poverty stricken third world countries. What’s the problem?”
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Fired USAid employees and advocates for people with HIV staged a protest in a Capitol office building on Wednesday, warning that Donald Trump’s drive to dismantle the agency tasked with implementing Washington’s foreign aid agenda imperils the fight against the virus.

Wearing white T-shirts that read “Aids funding cuts kill” and chanting “Congress has blood on its hands, unfreeze aid now”, around three dozen protesters lay down in the rotunda of the Cannon House office building, home to the offices of representatives from both parties. Capitol police said about 20 arrests were made of demonstrators who defied their orders to disperse.

“What we are demanding of Congress is that they stop behaving like doormats in the face of this attack on humanitarian assistance that truly is highly effective and life-saving,” Asia Russell, executive director of Health Gap, a global advocacy group fighting against HIV, said prior to the protest.

“It’s very hard to overstate what’s at stake regarding humanitarian assistance.”……..

SC has reversed lower court ruling on UsAID.

After seeing Elon Musk’s X post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies began talking on an encrypted app about how to respond.

Employees on a four-day, 10-hours-a-day schedule wouldn’t even see the email until Tuesday – past the deadline for responding – some noted.

There was also a bit of snark: “bonus points to anyone who responds that they spent their government subsidy on hookers and blow,” one worker said.

Within hours, the network had agreed on a recommended response: break up the oath federal employees take when hired into five bullet points and send them back in an email:

“1. I supported and defended the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

“2. I bore true faith and allegiance to the same,” and so on.

It was only the latest effort by a growing and increasingly busy group banding together to “expose harmful policies, defend public institutions and equip citizens with tools to push back against authoritarianism”, according to Lynn Stahl, a contractor with Veterans Affairs and a member of the network.

Increasingly, the group is also trying to help its members and others face the thousands of layoffs that have been imposed across the federal government.

Calling itself #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts, most of which bear the names or initials of federal agencies, aimed at getting information out to the public – and correcting disinformation – about the chaos being unleashed by the Trump administration.

With 40 accounts to date, their collective megaphone is getting louder, as most of the accounts have tens of thousands of followers, with “Alt CDC (they/them)” being the largest, at nearly 95,000 followers.

The network has also formed a group and a series of sub-groups on Wire, the encrypted messaging app, to share information and develop strategies – as played out on Saturday…….

efil4 said:

SC has reversed lower court ruling on UsAID.

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Don't know what to make of this. Essentially the Court has two days to review the case and parties suing to respond with their arguments by Friday. My guess is they'll uphold the lower court's decision. It just seems like a layup to me, but stranger things have happened, so idk.

Shelters Await Billions in Federal Money for Homelessness Providers
Providers that distribute this aid have not received formal notices about the awards, according to several local and national housing organizations. The office that distributes the funds is currently experiencing job cuts as part of the Department of Government Efficiency's broader effort to slash spending, multiple sources say, leading to questions about the future of critical shelter funding.

So, government is actually much more efficient than people give it credit for. It always has been. Sure, there are individual instances of slowness but that is common to any bureaucracy, private or public. The current actions of Eloon and VP Trump are making government less efficient. Their goal is privatization and government by fee which has at its core the doctrine of one dollar, one vote.

Storm the headquarters.

Federal Employees take an oath to the Constitution, and regardless of what you forking morons in MAGA think, most of them take that oath seriously.

This is why you get whistleblowers at low levels, and never at higher levels. Those higher level people are all sycophants or they never would have gotten the job.

Contractors and "Term" employees do not take an oath to the Constitution, and have very few labor rights, so they can be fired on a whim, so anyone seen as a potential "boat rocker" could just be summarily fired.

AI doesn't take an oath to anything.

Keep this in mind when you start hearing these forking morons pitch ideas to fix all the shirt they are breaking.

First time hearing about this

Then you’ll have the fear that if your agency moves halfway across the country, you’ve been a government employee and DC metro resident for decades decide to relocate only to be fired a month later
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The Trump administration has given federal agencies until mid-April to submit plans detailing where they will move their offices outside of the nation’s capital.

Heads of all departments and agencies on Wednesday were told to submit “any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, D.C. and the National Capital Region to less-costly parts of the country” by April 14.

The directive was part of guidance sent from leaders in the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management, which outlined how to comply with Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency “workforce optimization” executive order that vowed to eliminate “waste, bloat, and insularity.”

To achieve this, Elon Musk and DOGE have made sweeping staff cuts, slashed contracts, and initiated plans to downsize the federal government’s real estate holdings in D.C.

There was no mention of the likely massive costs in making such moves, or the inefficiency and possible funding drain of selling property or paying off leases only to have to replace property with other purchases or leases.……

Ending government leases in the city could have widespread implications for its economy, some argued.

Diana Parks, chair of the National Federal Development Association, told The Washington Post it “would be devastating to most commercial landholders in the D.C. market.”

She continued: “For all of it to hit the market in a short time, it’s just a supply-and-demand issue that’ll drive down the value of that real estate considerably.”………

Optimus Prime said:

First time hearing about this

Then you’ll have the fear that if your agency moves halfway across the country, you’ve been a government employee and DC metro resident for decades decide to relocate only to be fired a month later
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The Trump administration has given federal agencies until mid-April to submit plans detailing where they will move their offices outside of the nation’s capital.

Heads of all departments and agencies on Wednesday were told to submit “any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, D.C. and the National Capital Region to less-costly parts of the country” by April 14.

The directive was part of guidance sent from leaders in the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management, which outlined how to comply with Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency “workforce optimization” executive order that vowed to eliminate “waste, bloat, and insularity.”

To achieve this, Elon Musk and DOGE have made sweeping staff cuts, slashed contracts, and initiated plans to downsize the federal government’s real estate holdings in D.C.

There was no mention of the likely massive costs in making such moves, or the inefficiency and possible funding drain of selling property or paying off leases only to have to replace property with other purchases or leases.……

Ending government leases in the city could have widespread implications for its economy, some argued.

Diana Parks, chair of the National Federal Development Association, told The Washington Post it “would be devastating to most commercial landholders in the D.C. market.”

She continued: “For all of it to hit the market in a short time, it’s just a supply-and-demand issue that’ll drive down the value of that real estate considerably.”………

Getting out of DOGE? Federal agencies given deadline to come up with plans to exit DC

‘You go around Washington and see all these buildings with the Department of Education. We want to move education back to the states, where it belongs,’ Trump said at a Cabinet meeting

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Fear? They will most certainly do it.

The only thing Republicans want is the federal government to run the military. Of course, even there they want contractors involved as much as possible.

Everything else would be by private sector which increases by an order of magnitude the potential for waste, fraud and abuse.

Not to mention the impact on state government.

This schlitz show is just getting started.