A year after Trump's DOGE cuts, workers whose lives were upended question what was saved

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thea Price anticipated changes under the second Trump administration, but she never expected her life to be thrown into such disarray.

Along with the 300 other employees of the United States Institute of Peace, Price was fired, rehired and then fired again as part of President Donald Trump’s crusade to shrink the federal government, a chaotic effort that cut tens of thousands of jobs and shrank or dismantled entire agencies.

One year later, many of those impacted are left wondering whether their pain was worth it.

“Nobody was prepared for the complete destruction,” said Price, a former program operations manager. “And for what?”

https://apnews.com/article/doge-trump-musk-savings-federal-workers-ed82cbe516fbc527b0d8392e7b8098dc

[TommyT139]

1. The real goal

...was/is the destruction of the administrative state. And that has been accomplished.

Even if we get back in power, it will be virtually impossible to reconstruct all that they have destroyed, especially while cleaning up the messes they made, wreaking justice and/or vengeance upon them and their backers, and still managing to do government well enough to be voted back in.

[czarjak]

2. What did you have to lose?

My neighbor lost his twenty year career with The USGS!! Has a masters degree in his field. Counted 4 Squat! Now drives a truck.

[ananda]

3. The key is what she means by the word "nobody."

The great majority of people knew.

[yellow dahlia]

4. The extent of the destruction will never be repaired.

It makes my blood boil.

[Norrrm]

5. DOGE saved the personal data on Americans which they took. Very valuable commercially.