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Donald Trump switched to the limit of the working group to reduce the cost of Elon Musk, ordering his cabinet to ensure that “the most productive” civil servants were exempted from the back of the release that devastated in the US.
At a meeting in the White House on Thursday attended by state secretaries and Musk, the President hinted at the so -called billionaire Government Efficiency Department They may have been too unleelned in the mass shootings of federal employees.
Trump posted on the truth of Social shortly after the completion of the meeting: “While the secretaries learn OI understand, people who work for different departments, they can be very precise about who will stay and who will go. We say ‘scalpel’, not ‘Hatchet’.
The president’s comments come in the midst of multiple upsets among republican legislators and cabinet members due to speed and width Doge’s releasewhich affected at least 20,000 federal employees – among them veterans and cancer researchers.
“It is very important that we reduce the level to where they should be, but it is also important to keep the best and most productive people,” Trump wrote in his post. “We will have these meetings every two weeks until that aspect of this very necessary job is done.”
In an interview with journalists at the White House on Thursday afternoon, Trump went on: “I don’t want to see a big cut in which there are many good people..
Trump’s post repeated the comments of the New York Republican Congress Woman Nicole Miliotakis last month, in which she invited Doge to use “Scalpel rather than Sladgehammer” when recognizing savings “to avoid unintentional consequences and unnecessary anxiety.”
The leader of most Senate John Thune this week said that release “should be done in a respectful way”, while many of his republican colleagues gently criticized the proposed decrease in scientific research, consumption for assistance in the United States -U rejection of FBI agents.
In response to concern, Musk agreed to provide some Republican senators on Wednesday to call their personal telephone number to call problematic reductions and flags, according to someone in the room.
The President of the Mike Johnson House advised the Republican members of the Congress not to maintain personal meetings in their district, after numerous legislators were exposed to loud protests because of Doge’s cuts in the city councilors in Georgia, Texas and Kansas.
Earlier this week, Trump’s administration silently explained the directive that encouraged the release, stating that it was at the agencies to determine whether to dismiss the employees.
Last week the federal judge forbade the Office for Managing Staff of the US Government – a key remedy for Musk’s Doge project – Since the release of test workers in certain departments, explaining that the office “has no authority under any statute in the history of the employment and dismissal of employees in another agency.”
Some trial employees dismissed from the National Science Foundation last month began to repeat themselves on Monday, the agency said. The US government was also forced last month to begin employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
