Trump and Musk Push for Major Federal Workforce Cuts, Aim to Slash $1 Trillion from Budget:

After federal agencies already conducted layoffs, President Trump has appointed Elon Musk as the downsizing czar whilst he undertakes a key role in budget proposal talks on his first cabinet meeting. With Musk's government efficiency department deciding to cut budgets, it is no secret that federal agencies are feeling the heat.

As the federal workforce struggles to cope with the cuts, agencies are now required to submit plans for further staffing reductions by March 13. The new cuts have purposely left out a figure to go with these cuts making it much more nebulous in nature, target \on top of a already grappling restructured payroll.

By depicting this memo, Trump and Musk aid themselves more in the ongoing battle to curb government spending.

Currently, the cuts have been primarily focusing on aiding persons probationing in these jobs as they tend to have much less employment security. The next phase of budget cuts will be aimed towards the already employed and specialised bureaucrats, which constitute a much larger section of the populace.

After the cabinet meeting, Trump's claim of Zeldin Lee, head of the EPA, being able to fire upto 65% of his staff without any question came as a shock to many. He will still retain zeldin as his EPA administrator.

In a statement made on Tuesday, sources from the department of the interior reported that other departments, such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs and US Fish Wildlife Services, will also be looking towards aiming at layoffs of up to 40 percent all their staff.

Out of the 2.3 million civilian federal employees, close to 100 thousand have either been let go or accepted buyouts.

Trump made a surprising offer to Musk by personally inviting him to promote his work to the presidential cabinet. Some members had opposed his new mandate that all employees are required to justify their work, or risk being fired.

And the last time I checked, he’s not a cabinet-level official so there was no senate confirmation. White House lawyers have stated in graphic detail that he does not control DOGE, despite the fact that Musk’s aides do staff DOGE.

As cabinet secretaries listened, the Tesla and SpaceX boss – clad in a black “Make America Great Again” baseball cap and t-shirt that read “Tech Support” – stated boldly, “I can reduce the $6.7 trillion budget by $1 trillion this year.” That very achievable goal would almost certainly require vast amounts of government programmatic spending redirection.

Trump assured that he supports Musk's goal and at the very start of the meeting, he handed the floor to Musk before saying to everyone present, "Is anyone unhappy with Elon?" This statement caused laughter in the chamber.

On Wednesday, Trump put his signature on an executive order mandating that various agencies collaborate with DOGE to terminate all “unneeded” contracts and directed the General Administration Services, which controls the real estate assets of the government, to craft a strategy for getting rid of superfluous properties.

As of now, neither Trump nor Musk has managed to slow down the rate at which money is being spent. A Reuters analysis suggests that the government expenditure increased by 13% in Trump's first month in office when compared to the same time last year, mostly due to higher debt servicing payments and rising health and retirement expenses of an aging population.

Trump has also restated his pledge to continue with the nonpopular but mandatory cuts to popular health and retirement benefits that make already account for nearly half of the budget.

“We’re not going to touch it,” said Trump.

Trump is simultaneously roping Congress into extending his tax cuts from 2017 that are scheduled to be terminated at the close of the year. The 2017 cuts alone is what the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget claim is the reason that America now owes 36 trillion dollars in debt. If Congress does go ahead and prolong the tax cuts, America would be looking at an additional debt of over 5 trillion over the span of ten years.

Republicans are contemplating reductions in medicine and food assistance for low-income households to finance the tax breaks, though details remain to be seen. SOME CONFUSSION AND TREATENING Some cabinet secretaries were left scratching their heads this past weekend when members of the federal staff were sent a screenshot of an email in which they were instructed to log their week’s accomplishments, something Musk noted would lead to their dismissal if done disregard to. Some agencies directed their staff to disregard the email, which led to days of uncertainty as to whether it was possible for Musk and Trump to follow through with their threats. The richest person in the world, Musk, told the cabinet that his email was an investigation to see whether government funds were actually being paid to employees. “We suspect there are a substantial number of individuals on the government payroll who are deceased,” he stated without offering any rationale. Trump again indicated that the approximate one million individuals who chose to ignore Musk’s email could be in danger of losing their employment. The government, seemingly blindly, by Trump and Musk's new policies, aided by zero foresight, also suspended international foreign aid and interfered with building projects and with science research. On Wednesday, as per the Trump regime's hearing, the State Department was heard indicating that together with USAID approximately 10,000 grants and contracts had been canceled.

The person in consideration revealed that the GSA, which is commonly referred to as the government’s landlord, plans to terminate 1,100 leases for office space by the end of the year. This is in correlation with the data loss that occurred in October 2022.

The person went on to explain that these terminations would be focused towards so called soft-term leases, which may be vaporized at will without incurring a punishment. In total, the GSA controls about 2,800 soft-term leases, and even more “firm term” leases which require justification for termination.