Imagine this: you’re sitting at your desk, daydreaming about vacation, when your boss walks in and offers you eight months of paid leave—just to quit. No strings attached, no awkward goodbyes. Just a fat severance check and the freedom to disappear. Would you hesitate? I wouldn’t. I’d be out the door faster than you can say “overpaid bureaucrat.”
Turns out, 40,000 federal employees didn’t hesitate either. Over 40,000 government workers have taken President Trump’s generous offer to step down, marking one of the biggest shake-ups in our government workforce to date. It’s historic, effective, and exactly what we voted for when Trump promised to “drain the swamp.”
This isn’t some minor reshuffle—it’s a full-blown cleanup. The federal workforce is finally shrinking, and unlike the empty promises of past presidents, this time, it’s actually happening.
Of course, there’s backlash. Federal workers (and their media cheerleaders) are acting like the sky is falling. Why? Because they see what’s coming. Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is handing out severance checks now, but the real mission is cutting waste and eliminating bloated programs. (Has anyone heard from USAID lately, by the way?)
Instagram moms, TikTok activists, and the usual crowd on X called it “too harsh.” But here’s the real question: harsh on whom? The taxpayers, who’ve been footing the bill for years? Or the government employees, who are leaving with eight months of pay to jumpstart their next chapter?
If they’re upset because their jobs can’t survive the upcoming scrutiny, maybe the problem isn’t the severance—it’s that their roles never should have existed in the first place.
We all know how bloated the government has become. Billions wasted on programs that don’t deliver, pet projects benefiting insiders, and positions created just because someone knew the right person. DOGE is finally ending that cycle. Is it messy? Sure. But it’s necessary.
No one said draining the swamp would be gentle. It’s loud, uncomfortable, and long overdue. And we should all buckle up—because this is only the beginning.
Welcome aboard, Honucarl
I posted these elsewhere here today but it bears repeating:
For over a century, bureaucracy has been a metastasizing cancer growing deep in the bowels of our government – bloated, insidious, lethal. The moment an agency is created or a bureau established, its focus starts shifting from its stated purpose to its ongoing existence; it is the nature of bureaucratic entities.
We now have a unique opportunity to excise a great deal of that rot. Pres. Trump is exploiting an executive department created under Obama, who no doubt envisioned a permanent sinecure for fellow travelers, and putting a sunset clause on it. The wonderful thing about this methodology is that there is very little the Deep State can do about it , regardless of their wailing & gnashing of teeth or the actions of a handful of sympathetic judges. Ultimately, the executive branch falls solidly under the purview of the presidency…in fact, the DS has worked hard to achieve just that outcome. That the DS is now being hoisted on its own petard just adds to the fun.