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turbinetree

(26,978 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:24 AM Jun 2025

Trump official put on the spot for saying he wants federal workers traumatized

By Tom Boggioni
Published June 1, 2025 10:23 AM ET

During an interview on CNN with host Dana Bash, Donald Trump's budget director was out on the spot for previous comments he made about wanting federal workers to be "in trauma."

Appearing on "State of the Union" to defend the current budget bill coming out of the Republican-controlled NHouse, Bash switched it up on OMB Director Russell Vought by playing a clip of him glibly attacking civil servants.

In the clip he can be heard stating, "“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”

https://www.rawstory.com/russell-vought-trauma/

Hey shit for brains its called cherry picking..................you can't even jerry pick properly.............here let me give you the definition since your a fallacy..........


Cherry picking is the fallacy of selecting evidence that supports an argument while ignoring evidence that contradicts it

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Irish_Dem

(79,782 posts)
1. Yes it is obvious that trauma of federal workers was the goal.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:26 AM
Jun 2025

Make sure no one ever wants to work for the federal government again.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
3. So be clear, are you against Bash for cherry-pickin the clip or against a-hole rethug who wants Fed workers traumatized?
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:35 AM
Jun 2025

It is often said that cruelty is the point with this trump 2.0 admin.

CBHagman

(17,431 posts)
4. The Washington Post recently ran an article on what is happening to federal workers.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:36 AM
Jun 2025

Be warned that this is very painful reading.

“White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.”
By William Wan and Hannah Natanson

https://wapo.st/3GWKK5k

The above is a gift link. Please let me know if you have issues with it.

leftyladyfrommo

(19,955 posts)
5. The Government used to be a great place
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:42 AM
Jun 2025

to work. Paid pretty well, was permanent and good insurance. I guess those times are in the past.

riversedge

(79,408 posts)
6. I think DoGE/Musk with Trumps persmission have already done this-with their slash and burn policies and
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:47 AM
Jun 2025

access to their data bases!!

Midnight Writer

(25,145 posts)
7. Government workers are the spine of our middle class. Eliminate them and you eliminate our middle class.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:51 AM
Jun 2025

Why is anyone against their fellow citizens having decent paying union jobs?

Snarkoleptic

(6,213 posts)
8. The traumatizing of FAA and FEMA employees has been an early/visible indicator of the pain from these cuts.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:55 AM
Jun 2025

Future rounds of cuts will disproportionately affect red states, but at least they got to "own the libs" for a hot minute.

FAA- Crashes, near-misses, communication outages.

FEMA- Arkansas, Missouri, and NC all denied disaster relief.
Now that we're into hurricane season, let's see how maga policy mishandles disaster declarations in Florida.
Prolly will have a massive FEMA response if anything happens near Palm Beach, tho.

tanyev

(48,659 posts)
9. Yep, the Jan. 6th attack on our government never ended.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:10 AM
Jun 2025

They temporarily retreated so they could plan out new tactics.

indusurb

(297 posts)
10. It's not just federal workers they want traumatized,
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:11 AM
Jun 2025

They want everybody traumatized and fearful. It's a classic authoritarian move, keep everybody traumatized and fearful and they are, at least for awhile, easier to rule.

orangecrush

(28,323 posts)
11. Trump wants ALL OF US traumatized
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:17 AM
Jun 2025

Like I am every month now wating to see if my Social Security posts.

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