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Unemployment is off the charts and it is going keep going up at this point. Tens of thousands of government workers are being (illegally) fired, and contractors dumped, aiming at up to a million unemployed - but that's just the start. Right now 30,000 are confirmed. But OPM has mandated firing 200,000 probationary employees hired just in the last year to be let go by September, and that's not even counting contractors. Federal agencies rely heavily on contract employees, so we can expect 2-3 contractors to lose their income per federal employee lost. That's the direct workers, but there's much more: when something like HUD is dismantled by cutting 84% of the ~8000 workers, that means it simply cannot operate. HUD administers programs like LIHTC and JPIP which support over 90,000 jobs annually, primarily small businesses. With USAID shut down by cutting 14,000 employees the spending stops; billions of dollars of that spending went to farms in the Midwest that have lost their contracts, their livelihoods. 80% of that 60 billion dollar USAID budget went to US firms - it was an indirect subsidy that secured hundreds of thousands of jobs. Then there's the hiring freezes all over - not just in the government but the affected programs like university-administered medical research. There's maybe two dozen people authorized to actually administer and pay out the 30 billion dollars per year that the IRA distributes, fire them and all that goes away. It's authorized, the money is there, it just doesn't get spent. That's a lot of jobs. This isn't even taking into account the people losing their jobs to the tariffs and further trade war insanity. So are we really cool with being the next First World country slipping into Third World Territory and being left behind. DO NOT BLAME BIDEN, facts are facts and this is not the time to pretend that we all cannot see what is going on. STOP DEFENDING DOGE and TRUMP!