The bureaucrats are fighting back against Trump’s attempts to rein in the bloated federal workforce. The mainstream press is starting to publish articles about the pain that Trump’s policies are causing for federal workers.
Trump’s order to halt all DEI projects caused some bureaucrats to shut down all communications. Reporters for mainstream media outlets immediately began writing articles that Trump’s edict could endanger funding for health research.
This hysteria is typical of Democrats and government employees. Think about the practical application of this Democrat assertion. The bureaucrats are telling the gullible press that if they cannot discriminate in favor of less qualified minorities, health research will suffer. I call bullshit. Trump is asserting that research grants should be based on merit and not skin color or gender preference or pronoun alphabets. This should lead to better research results.
One mainstream article reported that federal job offers had been pulled from two interpretive park rangers. The horror! We have too many federal employees and we cannot rein in the bloated federal workforce without cutting back on the hiring process.
Democrats refuse to fire government workers or reduce the federal workforce. The taxpayers understand that Democrats are intellectually challenged in this area. We have seen this locally in our county when Democrats and RINOs wet their panties when Republicans attempted to reduce the government workforce.
We are a nation that is deeply in debt and the problem will not be solved without reducing the bloated federal workforce. Start with the workers who never go to the office. More than half the federal workers never go to the office.
Trump will make significant changes to how we deal with federal workers. We the taxpayers must ignore the pitiful cries of the bureaucrats who lose their jobs. As Obama said many years ago: let them learn to write code.

Bob Spencer
Publisher
Manatee Herald
publisher@manateeherald.com