Here is another tale to tell, due to DOGE cuts that should never have been made. You would think they would have learned by now about all they were losing by letting people go. But no. We have the National Weather Service to start. HHS has had to bring some people back. Let’s hear from CNN:
Federal agencies are rehiring and ordering back from leave some of the employees who were laid off in the weeks after President Donald Trump took office, as they scramble to fill critical gaps in services left by the Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to shrink the federal workforce. The Trump administration’s quiet backtracking from the firings and voluntary retirements — which are also paired with new hires to fill vacancies those departures created — comes as federal agencies are still implementing their “reduction-in-force” plans as part of a push for spending cuts.
“There are time bombs all over the place in the federal government because of this,” said Elaine Kamarck, the director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution. “They’ve wreaked havoc across nearly every agency.” Some government employees’ firings were halted by courts. But other moves to reinstate federal workers come as the Trump administration faces pressure from lawmakers, industries, and groups they serve.
Move fast and break things, alright, thank you, Elon. Thank you for being an idiot. Thank you for not thinking. Geesh! This is poor planning. Cuts, okay. But giant cuts across *everything*? That’s stupidity. DOGE didn’t take the time to really *look* at what they were cutting. They didn’t take the time to learn about the different departments.
The federal government has been scrambling for weeks (months?) to try and repair the damage. But like the Energizer bunny, it keeps going and going and… you get the idea. Starting off with firing all the people who watch over our nuclear stockpile was a mistake, and boy, did that blow the doors wide open. That was just the beginning of the scramble. Just the beginning.
With hurricane season looming, the National Weather Service — which lost more than 560 employees to layoffs and early retirement incentives earlier this year — received permission to hire about 125 new meteorologists and specialists for its forecast offices around the country, despite a federal hiring freeze. Those hires will help staff offices that had to cut back on their hours or stop staffing the overnight shift.
The Department of Health and Human Services reinstated 450 employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were fired as part of a massive reorganization in April, including workers focused on HIV and childhood lead exposure. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in May that the department had also reinstated 328 workers at the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health focused on mine safety. More than 200 employees had their firings rescinded at the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, along with 158 at the National Center for Environmental Health, an HHS spokesperson confirmed. Another 71 were brought back in the Office of the Director, and two dozen more at the Global Health Center.
Not thinking means not noticing what a mess could be caused. They caused them, alright. I’m going to behave this time, and NOT put in what my opinion of RFK Jr is, especially after taking his kids to swim in a polluted stream. And I’ll bet that indiscriminate firings will take place, then employees will be brought back, and the cycle starts again and again. DOGE will still not think. Good grief.
Max Stier, CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said the moves to eliminate, and then reinstate, many federal workers “shows the mosaic of incompetence and a failure on the part of this administration to understand the critical value that the breadth of government expertise provides.” “This is not about a single incident. It’s about a pattern that has implications for our government’s ability to meet not just the challenges of today but the critical challenges of tomorrow,” Stier said.
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It’s not poor planning. DOGE had no plan whatsoever.
It was never about saving money. If it was, the Pentagon should have been on the top of the list.
It was all about Elon and his in-cel army of doge-bags hoovering up all the data they could get their grubby paws on.