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BumRushDaShow

(160,724 posts) Sun Sep 28, 2025, 07:36 AM 1 hr ago

US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts

Source: The Guardian

Sun 28 Sep 2025 07.00 EDT
Last modified on Sun 28 Sep 2025 07.01 EDT

The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program. With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.

Workers preparing to leave government as part of the resignation program – one of several pillars of Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce – have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.

“Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,” a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. “That’s why I left.”

The total resignation program is set to cost $14.8bn, with 200,000 workers paid their full salary and benefits while on administrative leave for up to eight months, according to a Senate Democrats’ report in July.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/us-mass-resignation-federal-workers

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US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 1 hr ago OP

What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of America. Doodley 1 hr ago #1

Agree. It is deliberate and hateful, but we have become a country of hate. Lonestarblue 1 hr ago #2

This is the culmination of an entire history of hate... ananda 56 min ago #4

For eight months ? Yeah, right ! Watch them cut people off after the first check, saying it''s wasteful. nt eppur_se_muova 58 min ago #3

Sadly, you make a good point. taxi 52 min ago #5

Vought..."We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected" Leghorn21 33 min ago #6

Doodley

(11,424 posts)

1. What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of America.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 07:42 AM

1 hr ago

Lonestarblue

(12,941 posts)

2. Agree. It is deliberate and hateful, but we have become a country of hate.

Reply to Doodley (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 08:04 AM

1 hr ago

If we had decent media not owned by billionaires who value their personal low taxes over the future of the country, their daily headlines would be calling for Trump’s impeachment and for Republicans in Congress to do their jobs. They would be pointing out the corruption, lawlessness, and lies in big, blaring headlines. I no longer subscribe to the Washington Post, but today’s NYT is just more of the same bland coverage that Trump indicted Comey, sent troops to protect Portland, and ICE arrested the Des Moines schools superintendent. In other words, all is normal.

Except one curious opinion piece about Roundup! “Spraying Roundup on crops is fine. Really.”

Roundup has been linked with cancer for decades, yet the Times thinks they should be promoting its safety!

ananda

(33,318 posts)

4. This is the culmination of an entire history of hate...

Reply to Lonestarblue (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 08:22 AM

56 min ago

beginning with slavery and genocide.

The hate embedded in the south never abated,,
and it has managed to spread like a cancer.

I guess we're in the metastisis stage now.