Summary
The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk, has escalated its mass firing of federal workers, dismissing thousands across multiple agencies.
Union leaders condemn the purge as a politically motivated power grab rather than a cost-saving measure.
Many workers received no notice or due process, while chaotic termination notices deepened confusion.
Critics link the firings to Project 2025’s goal of dismantling government oversight, warning it will lead to corruption and benefit the wealthy.
Right wing economics thinks that the free market solves everything, and that government just gets in the way and prevents the market from solving everything. That’s why they want to dismantle the government, they think it will lead to glorious prosperity. You can see this when Musk says the future it’s going to be amazing and various other things like that from many people. Now there are a lot of other things going on, but that’s basically the origin. To them if it makes profit, then it is good in every sense by definition. And they think if it doesn’t make profit, then it is bad in every sense, again by definition. The more profit it makes, the more good it is.
And never mind those pesky externalities; those are for the poors to suffer.
To them you’re only poor if you didn’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps, again because profit good by definition. If you are poor, then you are bad by definition.