{"id":7180,"date":"2025-02-27T07:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:27:39","slug":"trump-warns-1-million-federal-workers-might-be-fired-they-are-on-the-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=7180","title":{"rendered":"Trump Warns 1 Million Federal Workers Might Be Fired: \u2018They Are on the Bubble\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said that at least a million federal workers are \u201con the bubble\u201d because they haven\u2019t replied to an email asking them to explain why they should keep their jobs.<\/p>\n

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During his first Cabinet meeting of this second term, Trump was asked what happened to the people who didn\u2019t answer the email sent Saturday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) asking them to list five bullet points of things they did in the last week.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk, an adviser to Trump and the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spoke at the Cabinet meeting and was asked about the emails sent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to send another email,\u201d Musk said. \u201cBut our goal is not to be capricious or unfair. We want to give people every opportunity to send an email. And the email could simply be \u2018What I\u2019m working on is too sensitive or classified to describe.\u2019 Like, literally just that would be sufficient. You know, I think this is just common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moments later, though, Trump interjected and said the consequences could indeed be more dire for the non-respondents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose million people that haven\u2019t responded though, Elon, they are on the bubble,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know, I wouldn\u2019t say that we\u2019re thrilled about it. You know, they haven\u2019t responded. Now, maybe they don\u2019t exist. Maybe we\u2019re paying people that don\u2019t exist. Don\u2019t forget we just got here. This group just got here. But those people are on the bubble, as they say. Maybe they\u2019re gonna be gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that Biden ran a very tight administration,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey spent money like nobody\u2019s ever spent money before. Wasted money. The green new scam, all of the different things they spent money on. And you\u2019ve seen that. We\u2019ve seen that with some of the things that I read in speeches. I read them, and people can\u2019t believe when I read them. Twenty million here, 30 million here for a little educational course on something.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The meeting took a turn when a reporter asked Trump if any of his Cabinet members had heard complaints about Musk and what DOGE was seeking to accomplish.<\/p>\n

Trump responded by saying, \u201cHey Elon, let the Cabinet speak for a second. Is anyone unhappy with Elon? If you are, we\u2019ll throw him out of here. Anyone unhappy?\u201d<\/p>\n

The room erupted in laughter after the comment from Trump.<\/p>\n

Musk also spoke about DOGE and what his team has been tasked to handle by the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple tech support here, because this is actually as crazy as accounts that that that is almost a little description of the world of the those team is doing is helping fix the gonna computer systems. Menu systems are extremely old; they don\u2019t communicate their lot of mistakes and systems. Software doesn\u2019t work so we are actually takes whole. It\u2019s it\u2019s it\u2019s ironic, but it\u2019s true,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overall goal here with the doors to is to help address the steps that we simply cannot sustain as a coterie two trillion dollar deficit. The interest rates that just the interest on the national debt now exceeds the defense department spending. We spent a lot of us problem, but we\u2019re spending like it over a trillion dollars on interest. If this continues, the country will go to become de facto background, but an optional thing, it is the central thing that that\u2019s best series of here and taking a lot of and getting a lot of death threats like spectrum up. But if we don\u2019t do this, America will go bankrupt. That\u2019s why it has to be done. Competence at this point knock on wood, like of my head,\u201d Musk joked.<\/p>\n

\u201cDollars in savings. That would be a roughly 15 percent of it\u2019s for seven trillion dollar budget and see that can only be done with the support of everyone in this room like to thank the lord for a sport. Thank you very much this. This can only be done with with your sport,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Musk continued, \u201cTo support function for the present for the agencies and departments to help achieve those savings into effect, if actually find, 15 percent reduction in fraud and waste. So like was this we\u2019ll just go to those stuck up with line. I my light on. We specify each item so. Make mistakes, we won\u2019t be perfect, but when we make mistake, we\u2019ll fix it very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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