Where's my thinking? 2/19/2025
My research question is (answer in the space below):
What political and economic effects will the laying off of lots of the federal workforce have?
Why I’m interested in it:
It is very prominent today and directly affects my family and our country.
List of stakeholders:
My family, my cousin's family, federal employees and their families, the US economy, the US people, private sector businesses, and federal agencies.
Summary of the first source:
This article discusses the logistics of potential federal workforce cuts and how they could negatively affect the American public. It also explains that cutting federal agencies and employees will only get Trump a fraction of the way to cutting trillions in government spending.
So far from what I have read and heard in the news new cuts of federal employees and agencies won't get Trump nearly how close he wants to be in reducing government spending to keep his tax cuts in place. It will also have implications on the economy since although many of these employees who are being (and will be cut) will move to private sector jobs, many of them won't and will retire early or won't be able to find other jobs that will increase unemployment and have negative implications on the countries economy. Also, the dismantling of the foreign service and embassies will lead to the US becoming separated from global trade and discourse.
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