Hardworking Americans speaking out against Republicans

[TrailGuy 552]

Many members of the House skipped holding large, public events while out of Washington this week. But the Republicans who did hold town halls back home got an earful.

At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, House Republicans faced sometimes-hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are carrying out.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/town-halls-republicans-feel-heat-trump-musks-firing-cutting-spree-rcna193164

Nice to see regular middle class workers holding Republicans accountable for their mass layoffs and illegal funding cuts.

Americans are hurting and we're headed into recession led by Donald Trump.

[Horseman 2,363]

Speaking of hard worker.

 

[Red White and Blue 81]

Buyer’s remorse.  

[Tree of Knowledge 1,701]

37 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

Many members of the House skipped holding large, public events while out of Washington this week. But the Republicans who did hold town halls back home got an earful.

At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, House Republicans faced sometimes-hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are carrying out.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/town-halls-republicans-feel-heat-trump-musks-firing-cutting-spree-rcna193164

Nice to see regular middle class workers holding Republicans accountable for their mass layoffs and illegal funding cuts.

Americans are hurting and we're headed into recession led by Donald Trump.

Paid Soros disruptors trying to paint a false narrative for Deep State News to peddle to mouth breathers.   Patriots LOVE what Father Trump has accomplished in a month.   
 

SAD

[weepaws 3,156]

When will he start helping those that struggle with financial problems based on prices being to high , looking to get worse.  

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

2 minutes ago, weepaws said:

When will he start helping those that struggle with financial problems based on prices being to high , looking to get worse.  

It hasn't even been 2 months.  Are people really this dumb?

[TrailGuy 552]

3 minutes ago, weepaws said:

When will he start helping those that struggle with financial problems based on prices being to high , looking to get worse.  

Never.  That was the lie.

[TrailGuy 552]

2 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

It hasn't even been 2 months.  Are people really this dumb?

Look at everything he did in 6 weeks.  Not one thing to help people.  Who's the dumb one?

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

3 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

Look at everything he did in 6 weeks.  Not one thing to help people.  Who's the dumb one?

I have and it's been great.  It's about time someone starts trimming the fat.  This happens every day in the business world, why should federal employees be protected from it?  You shouldn't be ok with wasteful spending of our tax dollars.  You are the dumb one if you are ok with it.

[Red White and Blue 81]

Americans don’t love this? Get out.  

 

DOGE's Elon Musk says federal employees must document their work or resign

By Paulina Smolinski

Updated on: February 24, 2025 / 8:22 AM EST

Washington — Federal workers received an email on Saturday instructing them to document five things they accomplished in the past week, and Elon Musk said those who don't reply would risk losing their jobs.

The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, had the subject line, "What did you do last week?" It instructed recipients to reply with five examples of what they got done last week, excluding any classified information, and asked workers to include their supervisor in their response.

Musk, who is overseeing the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, said in a post on X that "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." He said the directive was "Consistent with President [Trump's] instructions." The email itself did not include the threat of forced resignation.

The deadline to reply is Monday at midnight, according to the email. However, at least three agencies told workers to ignore the request and not to reply, raising doubts about the enforceability of Musk's threat. Federal workers outside of OPM do not report to the agency, and it cannot dismiss employees directly.

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[Mike Hunt 261]

56 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Speaking of hard worker.

 

Trailguy is 57??? 

Dam, I thought he was in his late 20s or close to that with his emoji use.

[weepaws 3,156]

29 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

It hasn't even been 2 months.  Are people really this dumb?

Mmm people keep posting about how he’s done in just two months, but he hasn’t done anything about prices.  Seems like helping out Americans would be top priority, but I think it’s an after thought up to this point, he would be praised so much like he has been.  It’s a game of pride with trump.  Shame. 

[TrailGuy 552]

23 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I have and it's been great.  It's about time someone starts trimming the fat.  This happens every day in the business world, why should federal employees be protected from it?  You shouldn't be ok with wasteful spending of our tax dollars.  You are the dumb one if you are ok with it.

How has this helped you?

[HB Localboy 121]

No remorse here!

Sounds like more FAKE NEWS!

I am beyond excited about everything that Trump and Elon are doing to Make America Great Again!

The swamp is getting drained

The FBI is getting fixed

The border is secure

The Military is purged of WOKE!

Ft Liberty is Ft Bragg again!

We will be getting $5000 DOGE checks

War in Ukraine is almost over

SO MUCH WINNING!!!!   

[Horseman 2,363]

9 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

How has this helped you?

It's going to pay for extending the tax cuts and more tax cuts for the rich.  

[Horseman 2,363]

17 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

Trailguy is 57??? 

Dam, I thought he was in his late 20s or close to that with his emoji use.

I wonder if he's paid off those student loans yet? 

[HB Localboy 121]

1 minute ago, Horseman said:

I wonder if he's paid off those student loans yet? 

Like he went to college!  

[CaptainObvious1 324]

10 minutes ago, Horseman said:

I wonder if he's paid off those student loans yet? 

He can't even afford 24 carrots

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

38 minutes ago, weepaws said:

Mmm people keep posting about how he’s done in just two months, but he hasn’t done anything about prices.  Seems like helping out Americans would be top priority, but I think it’s an after thought up to this point, he would be praised so much like he has been.  It’s a game of pride with trump.  Shame. 

Let's just stop and use some common sense here.  There are some things that can be done right away, like trimming the fat.  Then there are other things that are a longer process, like lower prices.  This isn't rocket science.

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

41 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

How has this helped you?

He hasn't.  I'm thinking long term though, and I think what he's been doing is going to help in the long term.

[TrailGuy 552]

I addition to Republicans getting heat at town halls, the polling shows that this is not what America wanted

Approval of Trump's first month: 43%

Gone above authority as president: 57%

Approval of Musks role: 34%

Shuttering USAID: 40%

Shuttering DEI: 46%

Transgender bans: 47%

Tariffs on Canada and Mexico: 40%

Economy is good: 26%

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-poll-unpopular-post-ipsos/

 

[Red White and Blue 81]

Elon is running the government like a business. Unfortunately, the business is one of those crappy private equity firms that doesn’t produce anything and lays off a chunk of the workforce to turn a short-term profit. The other problems are that he’s got conflicts of interest all over the place and the federal government isn’t a business.

Everything is great!  

[TrailGuy 552]

3 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

He hasn't. 

Thanks for the honesty.  This is the problem.

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

Just now, TrailGuy said:

Thanks for the honesty.  This is the problem.

What is the problem?

[TrailGuy 552]

4 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

What is the problem?

People aren't getting help.  They're actually getting hurt by loss of jobs and loss of funding.

[supermike80 1,803]

2 hours ago, TrailGuy said:

Many members of the House skipped holding large, public events while out of Washington this week. But the Republicans who did hold town halls back home got an earful.

At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, House Republicans faced sometimes-hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are carrying out.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/town-halls-republicans-feel-heat-trump-musks-firing-cutting-spree-rcna193164

Nice to see regular middle class workers holding Republicans accountable for their mass layoffs and illegal funding cuts.

Americans are hurting and we're headed into recession led by Donald Trump.

Are they gonna protest Starbucks too?

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/starbucks-to-lay-off-1100-employees-this-week-as-ceo-aims-to-deliver-on-turnaround-135518008.html

Microsoft?'

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/meta-approves-plan-for-bigger-executives-bonuses-following-5percent-layoffs.html'

John Deere?

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2025/02/21/john-deere-layoffs-ankeny/79437187007/

[jbycho 590]

What other ways can liberals say they don't like Trump? 

As if anyone cares. 

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

2 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

People aren't getting help.  They're actually getting hurt by loss of jobs and loss of funding.

Loss of jobs happen every day.  Not all jobs are needed.  Those people will all continue to receive pay while they get a new job.  No different than everyone else.

What funding that was cut do you think needs to remain?

[TrailGuy 552]

1 minute ago, supermike80 said:

Are they gonna protest Starbucks too?

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/starbucks-to-lay-off-1100-employees-this-week-as-ceo-aims-to-deliver-on-turnaround-135518008.html

Microsoft?'

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/meta-approves-plan-for-bigger-executives-bonuses-following-5percent-layoffs.html'

John Deere?

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2025/02/21/john-deere-layoffs-ankeny/79437187007/

You're really comparing the US Govt to a private business?  Taxpayers fund the govt and vote for representatives to represent their interests.  Citizens have the right and duty to question the people they vote for and the decisions they make.  Citizens have the right to protest the govt.

Of course people can protest private business as well but I really have no say in how starbucks runs their business.  I don't fund starbucks.  I don't even go there.

[shadrap 220]

14 minutes ago, Red White and Blue said:

Elon is running the government like a business. Unfortunately, the business is one of those crappy private equity firms that doesn’t produce anything and lays off a chunk of the workforce to turn a short-term profit. The other problems are that he’s got conflicts of interest all over the place and the federal government isn’t a business.

Everything is great!  

defending large government & government slackers.  also as a result defending higher taxes because of bloated & corrupt spending.

Party over common sense

[Fumbleweed 516]

Partisans on both sides are quick to say it's working or it's not working...

Some things need time in order to determine whether something is going to work or not and current happenings certainly qualify as that. The rest of this is just back and forth noise. 

[supermike80 1,803]

6 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

You're really comparing the US Govt to a private business?  Taxpayers fund the govt and vote for representatives to represent their interests.  Citizens have the right and duty to question the people they vote for and the decisions they make.  Citizens have the right to protest the govt.

Of course people can protest private business as well but I really have no say in how starbucks runs their business.  I don't fund starbucks.  I don't even go there.

Of course I am.   Seems the entities I posted in my reply were very concerned about this or that person being laid off.  Yet no profiles from other places?  Hmmmm  I wonder why that is?  Is the media saying that only those laid off from government jobs are impacted?  everyone else will be A-OK?

[jerryskids 6,564]

1 hour ago, Red White and Blue said:

Americans don’t love this? Get out.  

 

DOGE's Elon Musk says federal employees must document their work or resign

By Paulina Smolinski

Updated on: February 24, 2025 / 8:22 AM EST

Washington — Federal workers received an email on Saturday instructing them to document five things they accomplished in the past week, and Elon Musk said those who don't reply would risk losing their jobs.

The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, had the subject line, "What did you do last week?" It instructed recipients to reply with five examples of what they got done last week, excluding any classified information, and asked workers to include their supervisor in their response.

Musk, who is overseeing the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, said in a post on X that "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." He said the directive was "Consistent with President [Trump's] instructions." The email itself did not include the threat of forced resignation.

The deadline to reply is Monday at midnight, according to the email. However, at least three agencies told workers to ignore the request and not to reply, raising doubts about the enforceability of Musk's threat. Federal workers outside of OPM do not report to the agency, and it cannot dismiss employees directly.

Link

Government employees are being asked to write a weekly report?  The horror!   

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

9 minutes ago, Fumbleweed said:

Partisans on both sides are quick to say it's working or it's not working...

Some things need time in order to determine whether something is going to work or not and current happenings certainly qualify as that. The rest of this is just back and forth noise. 

Exactly.  I don't like Trump but I'm willing to give him time here.  If this all blows up in our faces, I will have no issues criticizing Trump and admitting I was wrong.

[TrailGuy 552]

7 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Loss of jobs happen every day.  Not all jobs are needed.  Those people will all continue to receive pay while they get a new job.  No different than everyone else.

What funding that was cut do you think needs to remain?

Disagree on people getting paid while looking for another job.

Issues I have with the process is it's chaotic.  They are firing people that shouldn't be fired.   They fired people that are in charge of nuclear weapons.  Then realized they shouldn't have fired them and tried to hire them back.  They are firing people if they ever took a DEI training before, some took DEI training under Trump 1.0 and now are fired for it.  Others fired based on performance but have gotten positive performance reviews or no performance reviews at all.  Inspectors being fired whose job it is to identify waste, fraud and abuse the very thing they are telling you they are fighting.  Firing IRS agents who are a net positive cash flow on the govt which makes zero sense unless the reason for firing them was so that people can get away with tax evasion and fraud.

Funding?  Farmers who lost out on selling their crops for USAID.  People who had approved govt grants for their small businesses that now got them revoked and may go under.  Research funding for diseases that result in lost jobs and lost scientific advancements.  These scientists finding jobs overseas reducing the role of the US as a scientific leader in the world.

None of this was thought out or planned.  You have a drug addled idiot waving a chain saw around on stage cheering on his complete dismantling out the US.  People like you think it's all good.

[Red White and Blue 81]

2 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Government employees are being asked to write a weekly report?  The horror!   

By a non-governmental agency on a Saturday afternoon via an email that says failure to comply = resignation. You think DOGE is going to read these bullets? They’re just trying to harass federal employees into quitting. Everyone knows it.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,237]

31 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

I addition to Republicans getting heat at town halls, the polling shows that this is not what America wanted

Approval of Trump's first month: 43%

Gone above authority as president: 57%

Approval of Musks role: 34%

Shuttering USAID: 40%

Shuttering DEI: 46%

Transgender bans: 47%

Tariffs on Canada and Mexico: 40%

Economy is good: 26%

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-poll-unpopular-post-ipsos/

 

those are amazing numbers!!! from the leftist rag WAPO, imagine how the real Americans would poll

 

[TrailGuy 552]

9 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

Of course I am.   Seems the entities I posted in my reply were very concerned about this or that person being laid off.  Yet no profiles from other places?  Hmmmm  I wonder why that is?  Is the media saying that only those laid off from government jobs are impacted?  everyone else will be A-OK?

I don't know how the media is treating any of these people differently but anyone that loses their job is a shame, especially people that live paycheck to paycheck.

 

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

4 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

Disagree on people getting paid while looking for another job.

Won't they be able to get unemployment?

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

1 minute ago, TrailGuy said:

I don't know how the media is treating any of these people differently but anyone that loses their job is a shame, especially people that live paycheck to paycheck.

 

How many people that got fired from government jobs do you think were living paycheck to paycheck?