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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25883319

Summary

IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A wrecking ball

What he voted for was a wrecking ball. It was glaringly obvious. What he expected was that this wtecking ball would only hit others: gays, non-whites, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Right. They voted for the mummified foreskin because he was gonna destroy people's lives. That was the point. Shit got off the rails when the lives destroyed were theirs.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago

Back before the 2016 election, Trump ceded that his "University' had been a scam and paid back the students who had sued him. When I pointed out that Trump was scamming his own people, a MAGoo wrote back that those people deserved to be scammed because they hadn't read the fine print.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

He must have been one of the bad ones

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

What an idiot...2 times.