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Miles Archer

(20,475 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 08:41 AM Saturday

"Trump did not provide details on what qualified the affected workers as "Democrat-oriented."..."

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Friday.

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Trump said late Friday afternoon that he plans to fire “a lot” of federal workers in retaliation for the government shutdown, vowing to target those deemed to be aligned with the Democratic Party.

“We figure they started this thing, so they should be Democrat-oriented,” Trump said, placing blame for the shutdown on Democratic lawmakers.

Trump did not provide details on what qualified the affected workers as “Democrat-oriented.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/politics/government-shutdown-federal-worker-firings

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ms liberty

(10,693 posts)
1. Someone needs to find out if the fired employees are all registered Democrats
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 08:47 AM
Saturday

Because that is a lawsuit.

EdmondDantes_

(987 posts)
3. I assume he means the departments are thought to be Democratically aligned
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:01 AM
Saturday

CDC, education, etc as opposed to military or homeland security. So our perceived priorities as a pressure tactic to get Democrats in Congress to agree to reopen the government on Trump's terms.

ms liberty

(10,693 posts)
4. Me too, but I can see them going that granular with it. The revenge and cruelty is the point, nd
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:08 AM
Saturday

It's something they could do and secretly get that "own the libs" feeling until someone put it together.

choie

(6,208 posts)
11. In other words
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 12:15 PM
Saturday

agencies that provide Americans with vital services and programs, as opposed to republican aligned agencies that are destroying our democracy. Got it.

allegorical oracle

(5,789 posts)
5. Could be mistaken, but didn't DOGE at least try to get voter registration info? Never
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:10 AM
Saturday

heard whether that went anywhere.

allegorical oracle

(5,789 posts)
12. Even political contributions don't specify that the donor is a card-carrying
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 02:10 PM
Saturday

member of a certain political party. Michael Steele admitted the other day that he's still a registered Repug, despite his anti-djt rhetoric on MSNBC.

And, yeah, my bank accounts are linked to my SS number, but my voter registration isn't. It only involved my birth and marriage certificates and proof of full-time residency via the property tax roll. My passport doesn't mention political party, either.

Swede

(37,577 posts)
7. Anyone with empathy.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 09:15 AM
Saturday

That's the difference I see in the two major parties. GOP don't give a fuck about anyone not in their immediate circle.

wiggs

(8,492 posts)
9. dems/journalists/pundits should be asking follow up questions every hour...does this mean gop
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:56 AM
Saturday

priorities don't include disease prevention, clean water, intelligence gathering, civil rights, energy production, lunches for school kids, education, medicare and medicaid, tax collection, science, research, etc????

Missed opportunity if not asked

Paladin

(31,766 posts)
10. "Democrat-oriented" is all we needed to hear from trump.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 11:12 AM
Saturday

For God's sake: please show up at one of the 10/18 protest gatherings and raise hell. We need a massive outpouring of purposeful outrage, enough to cause trump and his goons to shit themselves and to advance the process of reclaiming our wounded nation from the forces of evil.

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