Back in October of 2022, when Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he sent an email to all employees with a subject line, "A Fork in the Road."
In the email he told Twitter employees that they could either choose to return to work in the office or they could pretend to work somewhere else.
That email, along with Musk personnel decisions, cut about 70% to 80% of the Twitter workforce.
President Donald Trump appears to have been impressed by this Musk innovation.
Trump sent an email to all federal employees with the same subject line, but a more generous solution.
This is, after all, the federal government where the employee is always right.
An appalled NBC News has the story."President Donald Trump's administration is offering federal workers the chance to take a 'deferred resignation,"' which would mean they agree now to resign but get paid through September.
"American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees, and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
"If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months."
A Trump administration official expects between 5% to 10% of the feds to take the offer and look for a sinecure elsewhere.
We’re also assuming that number doesn’t include the "workers" who will be filing lawsuits claiming it’s their right to shop from home on government time.
This is the second innovation on the personnel front this week from Trump 2.0.
He also ordered the defense department to reinstate all the military members who refused to take the clot-shot during the pandemic (make that panicdemic) and grant them back pay and the rank they held before discharge.
That’s quite a revolving door.
Sensible, committed conservatives come in while lazy, entitled government paycheck collectors exit.
We think this is an excellent start, but it needs to be applied more widely.
This is the way for Trump to abolish entire useless government agencies. Cancel the worthless indoctrination factory known as the Dept of Education and give every employee six months of severance.
During that time, they will be moved to another vacant federal office building (Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, call your office) where they won’t have access to computers and thereby avoid vindictive damage.
And they won’t have access to grants, so they can’t reward other leftists with patronage spending, as they hit the door.
The furloughed folks can spend their time looking for work, learning to code or hitting up past grant recipients for a new make–work job for themselves. And six months is a humane sendoff that will still save the taxpayers in the long and short run.
Ideally, Trump would abolish two or three useless agencies simultaneously and thereby not allow the Regime Media and elected leftists to focus their outrage on a single casualty.
Sure, this will require the cooperation of the combover conservatives in Congress, but we're hopeful that Trump will soon impress upon them that there are serious consequences for going against the elected president and the promises he made to win the election.
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