Buck Brief - Trump Should Fire Most Lazy Feds

The Buck Sexton Show

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News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Buck Sexton discusses a bold move by the Trump administration to cut unnecessary government spending by offering federal employees a severance package. Buck dives into the inefficiencies of the federal bureaucracy, the proposal's potential impact, and how this strategy aligns with private sector approaches to cutting costs. He also touches on the overall effectiveness of federal workers and the importance of reducing government waste.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
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0:10.1	He said he was going to cut a lot of unnecessary spending.
0:14.0	Trump is now, according to Axios, they've got a scoop on this one,
0:18.1	offering federal government employees, lots of them, millions of them, a buyout
0:24.4	package. Now, here are the details. If they resign, federal employees resigned by the 6th of
0:31.0	February, they will be entitled to severance payments through September 30th of 2025.
0:37.8	So they've got about a week to figure out whether or not they want to get on this Trump
0:42.8	train, or I guess, get off the Trump train, I guess, as it may be.
0:46.4	And then they would get a really nice severance package.
0:50.1	I'm assuming, as somebody used to work in the federal government, you'd also have all
0:53.6	these individuals able to get paid out on their comp time, which is something federal government
0:58.7	employees have.
0:59.9	So it could be a very nice package.
1:02.5	The government-wide email is being sent out to federal workers.
1:07.6	So the idea here is 6% of federal employees work full-time in the office.
1:13.2	After five years past COVID, that's completely insane.
1:17.2	So a lot of people aren't really doing anything, and enough is enough.
1:21.2	So why don't we incentivize them to take a pretty hefty severance.
1:28.5	I guess it would be, what is it?
1:30.0	Like, we're looking at six months severance, something like that, seven months severance.
1:35.0	So, yeah, this is something that Trump is, that by the time you hear this, I think it'll
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