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This is not a cost saving measure. This is a purge of federal employees who do not support their agenda. The first round is incentivized volunteer resignations. The second round will be forced resignations. The third round will be outright firings. This is a comprehensive takeover of the federal government by the MAGA organization. This is round one of a pervasive attack on the American Republic.
They are following the NAZI playbook from the 1930's.
The OLIGARCHY 
They are looking for cuts to pass trumps tax plan. Which will greatly enrich the rich and cripple the poor, weaken or eliminate the middle class.
What is it you think he is doing? Where do you think the money stolen from us will go? It's tax money, all our money going to the rich, 2'trillion at least. The deficitβ¦trump blew it up round 1. Round 2 he will kill the deficit. And YOU and EVERYONE you know will pay for it for the rest of our lives.
Some reasonable people too, maybe redditoids aren't beyond saving:
I appreciate you being open to the conversation. The challenge lies in your last sentence where you state "Convince me that cutting wasteful spending is a bad idea." You're already convinced that all of this spending is wasteful. We are not.
We see value in the DOE as a vehicle to assist in equalizing access to education for all. Without this funding, kids in poor areas will not have access to the resources they need to be successful in school. In the most impoverished places, property tax is not adequate - many are renting, in section 8, or perhaps homeless and the property tax collected does not scale with the student population in those environments. Do you believe that all kids, regardless of the socioeconomic class they are born into, deserve a shot at education? We do. But the states alone are not able to provide that, particularly red states who are the biggest beneficiaries of this funding.
For a chatgpt post that took me 5 minutes to write, I've so far generated at least 1000 words, I'm hoping before the post dies I can generate enough to write a short book 
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Because the point is to bankrupt America and give all the money to isreal. Also Elon is just cutting everything and just pointing to the wacky stuff to keep the chuds nice and placated. Im never getting a fricking job in research now funding for everything is cut, there are no entry level fed jobs, there is now a flood of fired federal employees in the hiring market and a no experience grad can't compete against experienced workers. Thank you BASED MUSK AND TRUMP. Im so happy to work as a lab tech my entire life for $20 an hour so schizophrenics could do more blood sacrifices to a burning bush.
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