White House Orders Agencies to Prep for Large-scale Firings

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The White House is directing federal agencies to prepare for large-scale layoffs, so-called reductions in force (RIF), according to guidance sent out by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management on Wednesday.

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The federal government's personnel and budget offices issued a memo to the leaders of all executive branch agencies on Wednesday directing them to submit "reorganization plans" within two weeks and prepare for large-scale firings.

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-- CBS News (@cbsnews.com) February 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Recession here we come!

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-26 02:44 PM | Reply

Recession is optimistic. A second Greater Depression is my guess.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-02-26 02:46 PM | Reply

@#1 ... Recession here we come! ...

I'm not yet that certain about an upcoming recession in, say, the next year. Sure, likelihood of a recession sometime in the future is close to 100%.

But for the next year, I'm sitting around 35% probability.

I had been closer to 20%, but the Consumer Confidence numbers this week were not rosily optimistic. So I bumped up my odds to 35%.

Still less than 50-50, though.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 02:54 PM | Reply

You're more optimistic than me. I'm betting by fall.

#4 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-02-26 03:05 PM | Reply

... The White House is directing federal agencies to prepare for large-scale layoffs ...

It looks like once the White House determined Mr Musk seemed to be lying about the savings DOGE was "creating," the Trump admin now realizes it has to get more aggressive to come close to the goals it has announced.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 03:40 PM | Reply

Traitor In Chief Trashing Our Country TICTOC for short.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-26 04:14 PM | Reply

This is all part of Trump/P2025's plan :to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will":

The great challenge confronting a conservative President is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power"including power currently held by the executive branch"to the American people. Success in meeting that challenge will require a rare combination of boldness and self-denial: boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will and self-denial to use the bureaucratic machine to send power away from Washington and back to America's families, faith communities, local governments, and states.

static.project2025.org

#7 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-26 05:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Pretty sure no one realized the way to make America great again was to increase unemployment across the nation.

I'm looking forward to reading how Republicans blame Democrats for all the problems they're causing.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-26 05:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Pretty sure no one realized the way to make America great again was to increase unemployment across the nation.

#8 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

MAGA has already supplied one answer to that:

Nobody actually worked at a real job.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-26 05:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

There's only one way to fix this country and conservatives and Republicans will never figure it out.

Better public education, public healthcare, smarter Americans, and healthier Americans. That's what will make this a better nation.

Handing a $4.5 trillion tax cut to billionaires won't do anything but make America fail.

It's a shame conservatives are too stupid to understand this.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-26 05:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#10

FTFY ...

Handing a $4.5 trillion tax cut to billionaires, while cutting $800 billion of healthcare from lower income Americans, won't do anything but make America fail.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-26 05:37 PM | Reply

FTFY is an abbreviation for "fixed that for you". It's generally used when changing part of another posters comment.

While I do agree with your comment.

I'm not sure which part of my comment you're referring to as being "fixed".

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-26 05:42 PM | Reply

Threads Dog
threads_dog

BREAKING: 90,000 Americans lost their jobs since Trump took office.

Not a single immigrant took them - Trump did.

You've been played, again.

Trump didn't protect you. He fired you.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-26 06:25 PM | Reply

START AT THE TOP

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-26 09:19 PM | Reply

When Dotard Trumpf fires all those people, in anti-Keynesian form he will reduce demand for consumer items, house and auto loans, and higher education. America's Godzilla is ensuring that the oligarch class have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with unneeded tax cuts, while the rest of us have to look for jobs, shop for food at Dollaramas, sleep in cars or homeless shelters, find care for our elderly parents, or borrow money to pay our medical bills.

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-26 11:41 PM | Reply