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Federal workers in Washington, DC, are experiencing job instability for the first time, and the entire city is in a “panic”, according to a report.
The Efficiency Department of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s government (Dux) are cutting the expense And ending government programs from left to right, which leads to dismissals, purchases and a Shell Shock capitol, not even 3 weeks in his second mandate.
“Washington already feels like a transformed place,” wrote the senior publisher Michael Schaeffer in a Friday column. “And not only will it go back even if the crusade ends tomorrow … something essential in culture has changed.”
In his piece, entitled: “‘Are we in Detroit now? faces of the country.
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“It is a very difficult time in DC,” said Yesim Sayin, executive director of the DC Policy Center. “Uncertainties are so great. There is an entire contingent industry in federal government spending.”
“It is difficult to express how unknown it is the uncertainty at the base level in Washington,” Schaeffer said. “The city has always felt like a city of the company where the company will never disappear. While most of us do not actually work for the government, its permanence shapes our expectations, and not only in four -year increases. Assumptions about the essence of Washington reports decisions about the purchase of a house or the construction of a life. “
“It is essentially as a nuclear bomb falls and destroys all its future plans,” Sayin added.
While Trump’s movements have affected contractors, Schaeffer says that workers in the Capitol of the Nation are experiencing a “novel element for a city based on government stability: economic paranoia” and “a category of Beltway that It really didn’t exist until recently: waiting to be fired. ”
“During generations, the predictability of federal payment checks and government contracts has defined Washington’s life even for many people who do not work for Uncle Sam,” Schaeffer wrote. “Now there is a sudden awareness that these payments may not be so predictable. It is a disconcerting and vertiginous feeling: a city of industry when the industry begins to stagger.”
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The president of AFL-CiO, Liz Shuler, speaks in a demonstration against the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) outside the United States Labor Department (Dol on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kena Betancur/ViewPress)
With Trump’s mandate that federal workers accept a purchase or return to work in person, the American Federation of Government Employees (Afge) and two other unions He filed a complaintTo say that the purchase offer is “arbitrary and capricious” and that it violates the federal law.
More than 40,000 workers I have agreed the purchase, and on Thursday a federal judge promoted the deadline of the administration to accept the purchase or resign from Thursday to Monday.
As federal white collar bureaucrats worried that the city is becoming Detroit during the collapse of the automotive industry, Schaeffer spoke with Ron Fournier, a former DC journalist who returned to Motor City, who confirmed the comparisons.
The United States Capitol building is surrounded by fencing in Washington, DC, on Friday, January 17, 2025. (Fox News Digital)
Fournier predicted that DC’s workforce “is not going to recover.”
“It’s hard to go back to what you thought was a stable industry, and then wake up one day and you realize that it is not,” said Fournier. “You will always change the way people in their city look at their history and how safe they feel, and how comfortable they feel and how optimistic they feel. It is a blow to the psyche that is not going to recover.”
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