Source: Common Dreams
by Les Leopold
“As the Trump-Musk administration takes an axe to the federal government’s budget and personnel, the Democrats have an opening to raise an issue that Musk will hate but Trump can’t ignore” private sector mass layoffs. Right now, as Acting President Musk goes after agency after agency in the name of cost cutting, the Democrats are focused on public sector job cuts. As they should, tens of thousands of jobs are at risk. But those numbers pale in comparison to the 1.8 million private sector workers who lost their jobs in December of 2024 due to involuntary layoffs. For the past several decades, more than 20 million jobs per year have been taken away from workers who did nothing wrong. It won’t be easy to convince private sector workers that cutting federal government costs is a mistake.” (02/11/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/john-deere-mass-layoffs-musk-trump