Ep. 3552 You Won’t BELIEVE How Many Federal Workers Trump Just FIRED!!!
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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Summary
The current government shutdown has catalyzed the largest downsizing of the federal workforce in nearly a century, with President Trump eliminating approximately 300,000 federal positions this year alone. As the federal workforce shrinks from 2.4 million to an estimated 2.1 million, the administration is leveraging unique legal authorities to create permanent reductions in federal jobs. This unprecedented move not only reshapes entire agencies but also highlights a significant shift in the balance of power between the executive branch and federal bureaucracy, all while Democrats struggle to respond to the fallout of their own strategies.
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Highlights:
- "300,000 federal positions eliminated in 2023, marking the largest decline since World War II."
- "Mass layoffs begin with permanent Reduction in Force notices, reshaping federal agencies."
- "Schedule F classifications allow Trump to fire federal employees without usual protections."
- "Democratic strategies backfire, inadvertently giving Trump the cover for unprecedented workforce cuts."
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| 0:00.0 | The liberal globalist order is at its brink and awakening a new conservative age. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Dr. Steve Turley. |
| 0:07.7 | Join me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the revitalization of conservative civilization. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Turley Talks. |
| 0:20.7 | The biggest government downsizing in nearly a century is |
| 0:25.6 | happening right now and it's about to get even more dramatic. While congressional Democrats are |
| 0:31.7 | having collective temper tantrums on CNN and MSNBC that no one's watching. President Trump and his budget chief, |
| 0:40.1 | Russell Vote, are using this shutdown as the perfect opportunity to permanently slash the federal |
| 0:47.0 | bureaucracy like never before. Make sure to stick with me at the very end of this video, |
| 0:52.0 | because we're going to see how what started out as a routine government shutdown has quickly transformed into the single most aggressive federal workforce reduction in modern American history. |
| 1:05.5 | And the numbers will shock you. |
| 1:08.6 | Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, your patron professor. |
| 1:11.7 | I am back in the studio to help you make sense of the madness |
| 1:14.8 | as the far left desperately tries to stop the unstoppable rise of a new conservative age |
| 1:20.9 | that you're making happen all over the world. |
| 1:24.0 | So if you're on a front row seat on how you're changing the world |
| 1:26.9 | in ways you never even imagine, make sure to smack that bell and subscribe button. Let's dive right in here, gang. You ready for this? As we speak, President Trump has officially eliminated 300,000 federal positions this year alone. |
| 1:46.8 | That figure comes from Scott Cooper, the director of the Office of Personnel Management. |
| 1:53.3 | That's nearly one in eight federal civilian workers, gone. |
| 1:58.2 | Now, to put this in perspective, the federal workforce is shrinking from roughly 2.4 million |
| 2:04.1 | employees in January when Trump was inaugurated to now an estimated 2.1 million by December. |
| 2:12.1 | It represents the largest single year decline in civilian federal employment since World War II. |
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