Asked by Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business about the Trump administration’s efforts to cut government spending, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said:
“I think the biggest thing we can point to is that we’ve cut government employment by 300,000 workers. Those jobs are very high-paying and they’re gone forever!”
Trump has touted his government layoffs of hundreds of thousands of workers from their “boring federal jobs” as one of his crowning achievements.
Among the agencies hit by mass layoffs were the Department of Veterans Affairs, where more than 12,700 workers lost their jobs – including doctors, nurses and support staffers. The Department of Health and Human Services axed more than 14,400 workers, the Social Security Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency fired over 10,600 workers between both agencies.
Jacqueline Simon, policy director at the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said: “When you say 300,000 jobs, it is a nice round number, and you link it to deficit reduction, which he is lying about,” referring to Trump and Hassett’s claims.
Simon continued, “The fact of the matter is, the disappearance of those 300,000 jobs means degraded healthcare for our veterans, slower or nonexistent service at the Social Security Administration for the elderly and disabled who rely on Social Security for their income and the elimination of huge swaths of of the Environmental Protection Agency that help ensure we have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.”
“It’s cruel,” Simon said, “not only on the people who held those jobs – about a 100,000 of whom are military veterans – but the impact of the disappearance of those jobs also falls on children, the elderly, anybody who consumes agricultural products, breathes air or relies on clean water.”
“Everybody is hurt by what he [Hassett] is celebrating,” she said.
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To be clear, it was never about cutting waste. It was about diverting government spending to the military industrial complex and his cronies.
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Asked by Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business about the Trump administration’s efforts to cut government spending, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said:
“I think the biggest thing we can point to is that we’ve cut government employment by 300,000 workers. Those jobs are very high-paying and they’re gone forever!”
Trump has touted his government layoffs of hundreds of thousands of workers from their “boring federal jobs” as one of his crowning achievements.
Among the agencies hit by mass layoffs were the Department of Veterans Affairs, where more than 12,700 workers lost their jobs – including doctors, nurses and support staffers. The Department of Health and Human Services axed more than 14,400 workers, the Social Security Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency fired over 10,600 workers between both agencies.
Jacqueline Simon, policy director at the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said: “When you say 300,000 jobs, it is a nice round number, and you link it to deficit reduction, which he is lying about,” referring to Trump and Hassett’s claims.
Simon continued, “The fact of the matter is, the disappearance of those 300,000 jobs means degraded healthcare for our veterans, slower or nonexistent service at the Social Security Administration for the elderly and disabled who rely on Social Security for their income and the elimination of huge swaths of of the Environmental Protection Agency that help ensure we have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.”
“It’s cruel,” Simon said, “not only on the people who held those jobs – about a 100,000 of whom are military veterans – but the impact of the disappearance of those jobs also falls on children, the elderly, anybody who consumes agricultural products, breathes air or relies on clean water.”
“Everybody is hurt by what he [Hassett] is celebrating,” she said.
To be clear, it was never about cutting waste. It was about diverting government spending to the military industrial complex and his cronies.