Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas said in a video posted on TikTok that a potential government shutdown could stop the Trump administration from laying off bureaucrats.
Since President Donald Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), federal employees have been laid off from several agencies, including a 50% reduction in the workforce of the Department of Education (ED) and terminating about 95% of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) workforce. Crockett admitted in the TikTok post that it meant federal employees wouldn’t get paid, but argued it would “stop some of the bleeding.”
“In my opinion, if we’re shut down, you can’t be fired, and what does that mean?” Crockett said “It does mean that people will not be paid, but it does mean that they will get their back pay. So hopefully, we can stop some of the bleeding. We just saw that the Department of Education laid off fifty percent of their workforce, so I don’t really understand why anybody would say: Oh we gotta take the high road.”
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“He is decimating the federal government and you’re talking about whether or not we’re gonna keep the doors open,” Crockett continued. “He literally is shutting down departments anyway.”
DOGE has identified at least $115 billion in savings, an average of $714.29 per taxpayer, according to its website.
“We wanted to make sure that we kept all of the right people, the good people, to make sure that the outward facing programs, the grants, the appropriations that come from Congress, all of that are being met. None of that’s going to fall through the cracks,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in a Monday interview.
Democratic members of Congress joined protests outside the headquarters of the USAID and the Treasury Department on Feb. 4 after White House senior advisor Elon Musk announced plans to close down USAID following a brief Jan. 31 standoff between USAID employees and DOGE staffers.
Trump made multiple campaign promises to close down the ED during his runs for the presidency.
The Trump administration reportedly plans to cut around 80,000 employees from the Department of Veterans Affairs, but Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins told Fox News host Harris Faulkner in a March 5 interview on “The Faulkner Focus” that no benefits would be cut.
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