Let’s try to be a bit objective about Trump

Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming

“‘It’s a dark news day,’ a family member told me on Wednesday. What could she have been referring to? I thought maybe she was referring to the confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, but when dealing with Trump-era news cycles, you can never assume you know what anyone is talking about It’s a minefield. If I guess wrong, I could be inserting a new topic into a conversation about politics that I already don’t want to have. So I played dumb. ‘Trump is firing the whole federal workforce,’ she told me. … I responded that Trump offered buyouts to most federal employees and this was an effective and humane way to clear people out. Staffers who take the buyout get paid through September but will likely stop working much sooner than that.
It’s also not unprecedented.” (02/01/25)

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