There were a lot of lies put out by the pundits and media shills about what a Trump presidency was going to be like. Members of the press claimed they would be rounded up and put in concentration camps. He was going to revoke gay and interracial marriage. Trump was going to collapse (according to the left-wing media) an already booming Biden-driven economy with a “trade war.” Politicians like Chuck Schumer claimed, with the passage of every piece of legislation, that people were going to die.
Of course, none of this has come to pass. That doesn’t stop them from pushing their hate-filled narratives, but the more they do, the more normal Americans see it for what it is -- lies. Not even well-crafted fibs at that.
Perhaps the biggest bundle of these lies was around the dismissal and early retirement of thousands of federal workers. Airports would be shut down. People were going to starve to death, or simply drop dead. Veterans and Social Security recipients were going to lose their benefits. We were told that the State Department, losing 1,300 employees out of the 77,000 employees (not counting contractors) was going to cause international harm. We were even told that the horrible customer service at the Social Security Administration was going to somehow get worse. Then came the lie that the gutting of the Department of Education was going to make our children dumber. The list goes on and on.
The reduction of the federal workforce is, thus far, between 121,000 and 250,000 personnel, with many taking the early retirement option. While the media and Democrat lawmakers assured us that there would be chaos and a body count as a result of these cuts, what was the real impact?
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