We are saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars with this buyout.

In fact, I can confirm that more than 77,000 federal employees accepted this very generous buyout

offer from the Trump administration.

That was White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt announcing the number of federal employees

who have accepted the Trump Doge buyout.

30 days into his second term, President Trump has taken aggressive steps to reshape the executive

agencies by forcing out tens of thousands of federal workers.

Part of a personnel is policy approach designed to remove those

who'd block his America First agenda.

In this episode, we speak to Daily Signals Tyler O'Neill about the deeply entrenched Washington

bureaucrats that he documents in his new book and what it's going to take to fully revamp

the federal government. I'm Georgia Howe with

Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Saturday, February 22nd, and this is a weekend edition

of Morning Wire. Joining us now is the Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neill, author of The Woktipus.

Tyler, thanks so much for coming on.

Hey, my pleasure. Thanks for having me.

So I wanted to start by noting an article that you wrote for the New York Post discussing

a concerning poll of federal employees. Can you tell us a little bit about what that poll found?

Yeah, so this was a really shocking poll.

It found that 64% of Washington, D.C., based federal bureaucrats who voted for Vice President

Kamala Harris in the last election, said that they would not follow a lawful order from Trump if they considered it to be bad policy.

I think back in the first administration, you had some Republicans or some who identified as Republicans

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