Typically, the primary thought somebody has after they consider an iceberg is the frozen behemoth that sank the supposedly unsinkable Titanic. We’re seeing this situation play out with the Trump administration’s streamlining of the federal authorities.
The iceberg is the federal paperwork comprising hundreds of people employed into the chief department to serve their fellow residents. Now, they’re feeling the warmth. For years, these people have been crafting and implementing insurance policies that almost all People are insulated from, all with out the specter of unemployment ought to they not carry out their duties to the perfect of their talents.
Now, the world is seeing what it appears like when icebergs cry.
The meltdown began final month, and the kicking and screaming are solely intensifying. Within the face of presidency effectivity and downsizing, some officers have taken to encouraging “civil disobedience” within the face of DOGE commander Elon Musk’s Workplace House-esque letter asking staff, “What would you say you do right here?”
It was a easy query asking what every worker achieved final week, stressing that categorized data mustn’t undergo that channel. Musk’s assumption was {that a} nonresponse was a resignation.
It’s not the sobbing we’re listening to from bureaucrats and left-leaning politicians defending and inspiring federal staff to not do their jobs, however we face an all-out assault trying to curry sympathy for the staff on the chopping block. It’s taking the type of over-the-top emotional pleas towards the brand new administration’s push for presidency transparency and effectivity.
Final weekend, in response to the Division of the Inside releasing hundreds of staff, disgruntled staffers hung an upside-down American flag — symbolizing a ship in misery — in a park. The day earlier than, there have been doom-speaking headlines with hyperbolic claims that Trump’s slicing of the federal workforce “might result in an financial catastrophe in some elements of the nation.”
Now, we’re on the “nationwide safety threat” portion of the left’s Outrage Cycle. Final week, CNN proclaimed “Our CIA Property are in Hazard from an Inside Electronic mail,” amid staffing cuts and an audit of the intelligence company, full with the “He’s Solely 25 Years Outdated!” coda that omits the truth that the legislative department is staffed predominantly by folks of their 20s.
I’d know. I used to be one. Disgrace on me for taking a congressional communications job at 23. Why ought to I’ve been on condition that stage of accountability at such a younger and tender age?
Don’t be fooled by the opalescent cries from disgruntled federal staff or their anointed guardians. That is by design. These are the ultimate mews of a dying beast that is aware of the jig is up. Whereas we every could know somebody throughout the federal workforce, it’s important to do not forget that these jobs had been by no means designed for folks to make their everlasting houses. The American folks know this, which is why they voted for change in November.
Houston Keene beforehand labored in Congress and as a journalist overlaying politics/InsideSources
