Fork In The Road: 75,000 Federal Workers Accept Trump Buyout Offer

February 14, 2025 Hunter Wallace Conservatism, Deep State, Politics, Populists, Progressives 15

This is a great way to start the weekend!

USA Today:

“WASHINGTON ? About 75,000 federal employees accepted President Donald Trump’s buyout offer, which closed to applicants Wednesday night.

The final buyout tally comes after a federal judge lifted a pause on the program earlier in the day. The figure, confirmed by an Office of Personnel Management official, represents about 3.3% of the federal government’s 2.3 million workers.

That’s below the White House’s projections of 5% to 10% of the workforce who were expected to accept the buyouts.

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday restored Trump’s buyout project, dubbed “Fork in the Road,” deciding federal employees unions that sued to stop the program lacked standing to bring their challenge and that his court does not have jurisdiction to hear their complaint. …”

It will suffice to say that Trump’s second term is off to a very different start.

15 Comments

  2. Valentine’s Day 2025 sure feels different than Valentine’s Day 2017. More than a few of us already had a notion that we were getting the shaft back then. We should not forget the betrayals, and there were many across the board. It could be a case of Trump being genuinely furious at what the swamp did to him the last time around – so he’s out for revenge. Now it’s not as if 75,000 fed-goons have been fired or sent to a gulag (which most certainly deserve). Nevertheless, they’re not on the payroll any more and that’s a positive. If nothing else, Trump is buying us time – and let us make the best of it. We might not get another chance.

    One of the big flaws I see on our side is falling into the trap of thinking Trump (or Putin and Xi for that matter) is somehow going to be our savior coming down from the heavens on a white horse leading an invincible army of angels to smite our enemies – like the scene in Jackson’s LOTR film depicting the Gandalf’s charge of the Battle for Helm’s Deep. So we can all sit back and watch the latest offerings from Pedowood on the jujubox and stop doing anything concrete to protect ourselves, families and people. One thing about our enemies is that they literally never rest. They’re kind of like the liquid-metal assassin in one of the Terminator sequels. No matter how many times they are totally destroyed, they somehow reconstitute, re-brand, regroup and attack again. The ride never ends….

  3. “Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-officials-fired-nuclear-staff-not-realizing-they-oversee-the-country-s-weapons-stockpile-sources-say/ar-AA1z5wos?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=fa5413e821f44afcddbab8393750bf68&ei=19

    but what was the excuse in 1956 ?

    Apollo affair
    The Apollo affair or NUMEC affair was a 1965 incident in which a US company, NUMEC, in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Apollo and Parks Township, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200–600 pounds (91–272 kg) of highly enriched uranium, with suspicions that it had gone to Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair

  5. The hypocrisy of unelected judges labelling an elected leader who is doing what he was voted in to do “authoritarian”, is truly shocking. If they block popular government measures, there’s no democracy.

    • The irony. Activist, authoritarian judges overturned the will of the majority and imposed an unpopular leftist agenda on the majority at least since Brown v Topeka in 1954.

  6. So Trump is acting like a typical Republican. Cut taxes, cut spending. In other words, not an independently minded person who happens to run as a Republican, but he could come right out of the Reagan administration.

    • @Metal Gear or whatever… I swear to holy Jesus in heaven above that people like you are the reason we’ve never accomplished a thing until Trump came along, Trump who is no saviors but who simply wills us to power without the concern for your criticisms.

  7. As an insider who saw people actively cheer for st Floyd’s mostly peaceful riots, who saw “colleagues” say “good riddance” when Jackson’s Headquarters flag was lost in Richmond; I have absolutely zero sympathy for those kvetching over the loss of “our parks” from people who would rather lecture you about the evils of slaving slave slavocratic evil doers until the glorious precursors to the PMCs took control of the government and righted all the wrongs of the current year. The so-called guardians of Parks and history live vicariously through their “pet negro darlings” to use a 19th century phrase.

  8. Kunstler has a superb short summary of USAID’s activities. The blackrobed aristocracy is now waging full lawfare against Trump and Musk’s attempts to stop the racket now – multiple court decrees declaring Trump must keep paying the slime. It looks like Trump might actually be serious this time around. How this fight shakes out will be very important.

  9. An audio recording just came out of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamon SCATHING into “work from home” as the joke it is for lazy slackers. Lazy women jobs. I can’t believe the gall of these people who demand their paycheck keep coming without ever coming into the office anymore. My late Korean War Vet father would be rolling in his grave if he could see how degenerate and lacking a work ethic the population has become. That’s why I call them “Generation Bastard” All these females are crying about child care etc. Well, it turns out women really ARE worth only 65 cents on the dollar compared to male work. And why do all these females need male careers? Some poor guy is probably underemployed while one of these ditz bumbles around in a career that should rightfully be his. They should be wives and mothers and any extra income can come from waitressing at Denny’s not being an HHS Adminstrator.

    • I agree that most jobs should be for competent males. There are so many where this is a no brainer like the military, construction, being a CEO, a pilot, as well as many others. But there are a small percentage of jobs women are well suited for. Even before feminism there were female specific jobs that women had.

      For instance, I am glad to see that more women are using midwives again. There are a lot of women who prefer a midwife delivering their baby and I don’t think they should be denied that just because we want to completely ban women from every job except waitressing. There are a few other jobs I think women are better suited for than men but you are right that women have no business doing most jobs out there.

  10. Courtney,
    “There are so many where this is a no brainer like the military, ,”

    So right,
    Police, firemen, emt.
    Some tasks just require brute strength.
    How can a 125 pound woman break down a door and save a 250 lb man in diabetic coma.
    There are an infinity of jobs open to women, but some jobs require crude strength and the volatile agression that only men have.

  11. Think I’m taking Sanders’s side on on this. Trump’s doing it because he’s anti-worker, not because he’s draining the swamp.

    • I don’t know about that, but the media is doing a very good job of displaying some very sympathetic victims of this policy.

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