there's also the termination letters people received, and the emails indicating where the orders came from to send the termination letters.

Musk's DOGE worked directly with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send out the "Fork in the Road" memo to all federal employees, and some probationary employees who took the resignation "deal" subsequently received termination letters for "poor performance" (although never having received a performance review) and despite having taking the "deal" and then terminated and told it was no longer available to them.

How's that for cruelty?

The Washington Post contacted the OPM yesterday about the DOGE total FUBAR issue, and they subsequently reinstated the deal.

That's the free press in action... holding the government accountable.

You wouldn't call Trump a liar would you?

You wouldn't have to! That lying sack of horseshit invents his own reality, and the gullible rubes begin regurgitating the utter nonsensical bullshit all over social media as if it's the gospel. It's the dumbing down of America in real time.

That's not what your dear leader said yesterday evening:

President Donald Trump Wednesday evening again asserted that he put billionaire Elon Musk “in charge” of his “Department of Government Efficiency,” contradicting his own Department of Justice, which is claiming that Musk is merely a White House adviser with no authority.

“I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge,” Trump said at a Saudi Arabian financial conference in Miami Beach, with Musk sitting in the audience. “Thank you, Elon, for doing it. And he’s doing a great job.”

You wouldn't call Trump a liar would you?

Once again... NOT FACTUALLY ACCURATE...

Elon Musk has *NOT* fired a SINGLE SOLITARY PERSON, nor has Elon Musk made *ANY* decision on slashing a SINGLE SOLITARY budget..

Whatever happened to "reality based" commentary??

This is as far from objective reality as it gets while still remaining in the same galaxy...

The Washington Post broke the story today of what exactly this is going to mean:

Ahhhh I see the problem now.. :eyeroll:

Ask no more! ;)

I have your answer.

The vast majority of them will either publicly support it and/or avoid answering questions, while behind the scenes the phones are ringing off the hook... and moreso than they already are considering the subject of defense which (as you've rightly stated) affects them all in more ways than one, regardless of Party.

Now I have a question:

What better time to begin taking a blunt sharp instrument to the defense budget than the same day Trump has doubled down on blaming our ally Ukraine for allowing a war to start in his country and for being "a dictator without elections" who conned America into helping?

Rhetorical question replete with sarcasm.

Putin's goal is (and remains ever thus) a disarmed Ukraine in subordination to Moscow. A healthy, economically powerful rival that is an actual democracy with ties to the West/EU is a threat to the long-term stability of Putin's authoritarian dictatorship. When Ukrainians rose up during Euromaidan and rid themselves of Putin's puppet in Kyiv, Putin began plotting invasion. Fast forward, when Putin's puppet in the United States lost his reelection, Putin began escalation.

Not rocket science.

The New Yorker recently ran an article about the difficulties the Pentagon is having in recruiting. Fewer young people than ever are volunteering, and worse than that, the ones that are volunteering are ridiculously out of shape and ignorant. To get them into uniform, the Defense Dept. actually runs pre-basic training 'camps' to get potential service people to lose some weight, build some muscle, and study up on the subjects in the standard aptitude tests administered to all recruits.

So we already have a weaker military before these cuts, because personnel shortages are straining the system: fewer ships at sea, fewer planes in the air, fewer fighting units ready for rapid deployment, and fewer techs to do all the support work that backs up the fighting men and women.

Imagine now, on top of this crisis, cutting the budget for military equipment and personnel by 35% in five years. Then imagine Russia invading Poland or the Baltics after it absorbs Ukraine courtesy of this administration's Munich-like appeasement of Putin. And imagine China realizing that serious US power to defend Taiwan has been tossed into the crapper. Deliberately tossed and flushed, for no apparent reason except Trump and his people don't believe in fighting for long-time American principles like a free world of free and friendly countries that will keep the US free and prosperous.

Will Congress, especially the Republican-led Congress, contest their administration on this issue? Boy I hope so. But as you say, there's no more indication of that happening than there is of the Supreme Court slapping down Musk's illegal hijacking of the Federal government's operations.