Almost Half of Layoffs This Year Caused by Trump

Monday, May 05, 2025

Nearly half of all layoffs so far in 2025 have been driven by cuts related to the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) efforts ...

Posted by censored at 09:33 PM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

DOGE Accounts For Nearly Half Of All 2025 Layoffs, Report Finds https://t.co/vVNIK9alqr pic.twitter.com/xvjFg5si2S
" Forbes (@Forbes) May 2, 2025

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Illegal firings to intentionally crash the stock market. So Trump can profit by shorting stocks at the expense of everyone else.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-05 02:48 PM

"But I didn't vote for this."

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-05 02:50 PM

Well duh - we voted for this. The federal government needs to be slashed and the lazy, unproductive workers let go. On top of this, the spending on things like USAID and the Department of Education are actually either fraudulent or actually accomplish the opposite of their charter - such as the DOE destroying public schools. Here is a little hint for you liberal turds, you cannot grow the size of government indefinitely.

#3 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-05 06:41 PM

"The federal government needs to be slashed and the lazy, unproductive workers let go."

Curious how many government workers you know, to be calling so many of them lazy.
Or can you tell they're lazy just by looking at the color of their skin?

I was a Temp for the Federal Government phone banking for FEMA after one of the big California earthquakes. Nobody was lazy. I had to get my ass downtown to the conference room in the Marriott in sub-zero DC weather every day. The Marriott had hot spiced cider which I helped myself to every morning. That was back before the Green Line connector and you had to wait on the windy platform to switch trains.

Maybe government workers are as lazy as you are in your own country.

But here in America, people usually tend to work pretty hard at what they do, and don't mind putting in the hours if they think they're getting things done.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-05 06:49 PM

"Curious how many government workers you know, to be calling so many of them lazy.
#4 | Posted by snoofy"

I know many of them and not a single thing would change if their jobs were eliminated. You -------- said the same thing when Musk gutted the useless people at Twitter - how the site would collapse, etc as these people were necessary and doing hard work. Here is a little secret for you - there is not a single organization in the world with over 500 people that could not cut 10% of its workforce and see no drop in productivity. It doesn't matter if you are talking Nvidia, Apple or the Federal government. The problem is just way more severe in government where the number is probably 30-40% vs. 10% in the private sector.

#5 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-05 07:27 PM

I am an old man who lives in low income senior and disable housing, and I wonder how many millions of people in this country are like me, watching Trump's attack on the administration of social security, the IRS, The Veterans' Administration, and other agencies that help those at the bottom third of the economic pyramid, and fear for our future.
A government is either for the support of a very few oligarchs, like in Russia, or it is to support all the people, including the poor.

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-06 07:10 AM

Hey there, Scotty:
I look forward to the day soon enough when your locality will not have money to repair roads or failing bridges, where addicts again wander the street because Medicaid-funded treatment has ended, where there is much less airline traffic because not enough controllers are available, when your neighborhood gets damaged by a tornado or hurricane that could not be tracked accurately because of cuts to NOAA, where your children cannot get student loans so get to fight for low-wage, dead end factory jobs, and where your environment gets warmer but your local electric utility responds by burning more coal in power plants. On that day you will attempt to blame Diamond Joe Biden, but the truth will be taht your tangerine-colored god brought all of this upon you, and thus made America worse again...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-06 09:40 AM

#3 | Posted by ScottS

The stupid is breathtaking.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-06 10:23 AM

Here is a little secret for you - there is not a single organization in the world with over 500 people that could not cut 10% of its workforce and see no drop in productivity.

Here's a little secret for you.

Getting and keeping people gainfully employed and off the streets and welfare rolls etc is good for America.

What Donnie Two Dolls is doing is obviously not good for America.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-06 10:28 AM

"Here is a little secret for you - there is not a single organization in the world with over 500 people that could not cut 10% of its workforce and see no drop in productivity."

Really.
Which organization of 500 people did you cut 50 workers from, with no impact on productivity?
It's so amazingly obvious when you lie.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-06 10:30 AM

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-06 07:10 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Get back to us when just one of your benefits is cut. All we hear from Democrats is "they are going to take away our SS, Medicaid and Vet's benefits", but haven't heard from anyone who actually lost it.

#11 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-05-06 10:40 AM

And the jobs numbers were great. It's nice to see private job growth increase more than government job increase. Hasn't happened in the last 4 years.

#12 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-05-06 10:42 AM

Get back to us when just one of your benefits is cut.

Oh please. As if you won't shovel Trump's s*&^ when things like medicaid start getting cut.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-06 10:47 AM

And the jobs numbers were great. It's nice to see private job growth increase more than government job increase. Hasn't happened in the last 4 years.

#12 | Posted by fishpaw

Thank Biden. Trump's numbers will be arriving next year.

#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-06 12:19 PM

Really.
Which organization of 500 people did you cut 50 workers from, with no impact on productivity?
It's so amazingly obvious when you lie.

#10 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2025-05-06 10:30 AM | FLAG: Actually Musk cut about 80%o Twitter staff [now 'X'] and the site is functioning well. Too many private companies, like govt over time end up with a bloated bureaucracy and if you follow business news you see when a company is 'on the ropes' fiscally, the structure down, eliminating positions and letting employees go to get lean and mean to be able to compete.

#15 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-05-06 12:32 PM

Totally worth it. DOGE has saved the government $2 trillion. No, wait... $1 trillion. Hang on, $500 billion. Ok now it's $150 billion. Might actually be $32 billion.

#16 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-05-06 12:41 PM

#15 | Posted by MSgt

Speaking of lean, how much is trump's birthday parade costing?

If responsible budgeting was the concern, why cut the IRS which BRINGS IN MORE MONEY THAN IT COSTS?

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-06 12:51 PM

Well duh - we voted for this. The federal government needs to be slashed and the lazy, unproductive workers let go.

#3 | Posted by ScottS

That's what a lot of Trump voters said until they found out that they were the lazy, unproductive workers.

Don't bother with "lazy and unproductive" crap. DOGE didn't even try to look into that. Tens of thousands have had to be rehired!

#18 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-05-06 12:53 PM

The people laid off knew what they were voting for.

Don't bother with "lazy and unproductive" crap. DOGE didn't even try to look into that.

Pfft, who needs to bother with actually doing the legwork to find out who needed to be fired.

The only lazy one I've seen is the fat blob that spends four days a week golfing and spewing constant lies on the television.

#19 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-06 01:13 PM

Actually Musk cut about 80%o Twitter staff [now 'X'] and the site is functioning well.

Uh huh. Sure. Failed math did ya?

Functioning well with an 80% loss in revenue. Brilliant!!

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter (now X) in October 2022, its value has significantly declined, with estimates indicating a loss of approximately 80%.

www.cnn.com

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-06 01:15 PM

"Actually Musk cut about 80%o Twitter staff [now 'X'] and the site is functioning well."

Twitter, as privately held company, is a Black Box. You can't claim it's functioning well. You don't even know how it functions.
www.businessinsider.com

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-06 01:20 PM

Too many private companies, like govt over time end up with a bloated bureaucracy and if you follow business news you see when a company is 'on the ropes' fiscally, the structure down, eliminating positions and letting employees go to get lean and mean to be able to compete.
#15 | Posted by MSgt

Setting aside that Twitter was a publicly traded company --
It's not a private company's own bloated bureaucracy that is creating headwinds.
It's Trump's Central Planning.

Altogether, Trump's tariffs will raise $2.1 trillion in revenue over the next decade on a conventional basis ($1.5 trillion on a dynamic basis) and reduce US GDP by 0.8 percent, all before foreign retaliation. Including foreign retaliation announced as of April 10, the tariffs reduce US GDP by 1.0 percent.

The tariffs will reduce after-tax income by an average of 1.2 percent and amount to an average tax increase of more than $1,200 per US household in 2025. Our estimates of reductions in after-tax income may understate other harms consumers will experience, including loss of choice and higher prices for substitute goods.
taxfoundation.org

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-06 01:23 PM

So, the new Canadian prime minister visited the WH today. Check out this liar who wore a devil's smile during their WH chat. No wonder no world leaders trust Trump:

When the new Canadian prime minister arrived at the Oval Office on Tuesday morning to meet with the American president, he appeared to be walking into a lion's den. But it turned out to be a house cat he found there.

"Canada is a very special place to me," President Trump purred at the top of the meeting. "I know so many people that live in Canada. My parents had relatives that lived in Canada, my mother in particular."

This was somewhat surprising, since he had just spent months growling about how he would like to gobble up Canada and turn it into the 51st state.

"I love Canada," Mr. Trump added.

It was a decidedly different tone from the one he had used just moments earlier in a post on Truth Social, when he blasted Canadians as a bunch of freeloaders who couldn't survive without the United States. He posted this just as the new Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, was arriving at the White House.

#23 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-06 06:46 PM

All those fires government employees can now get jobs left open by deported illegal immigrants by picking fruits and vegetables.

#24 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-05-06 08:49 PM

Totally worth it. DOGE has saved the government $2 trillion. No, wait... $1 trillion. Hang on, $500 billion. Ok now it's $150 billion. Might actually be $32 billion.

The purpose of DOGE was to dismantle the systems of government that actually held ------- like Musk accountable for selling defective products and defrauding american consumers.

Nothing more.

Him getting our personal data to monetize is just gravy for him.

#25 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-07 08:26 AM

All those fires government employees can now get jobs left open by deported illegal immigrants by picking fruits and vegetables.

#24 | Posted by THEBULL

Which democrat will you blame when your lettuce costs 10 bucks per head?

#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-07 12:18 PM

Which democrat will you blame when your lettuce costs 10 bucks per head?
#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

10 bucks per head!?! Her name better be Melania!

#27 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-07 04:34 PM

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