Trump Moves to Fire Staff Overseeing Nuclear Weapons Then Backtracks—Report
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fires-hundreds-staff-overseeing-nuclear-weapons-report-2031419 President Donald Trump's administration has laid off between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), but appeared to partly backtrack amid safety concerns.
Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Department of Energy by email on Friday afternoon for comment.
Why It Matters
The Trump administration has aggressively implemented cuts and layoffs across the federal government in an effort to trim fat and reduce spending. Trump campaigned on reducing the size of the federal government, which the public has greatly supported.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published at the end of January 2025 found that 61 percent of U.S. adults support the president's plan to downsize the federal government. The poll was conducted between January 24 and 26 among 1,034 adults, with a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.
However, Trump's means of achieving this goal has proven highly controversial: He initially ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans that would have cut billions of dollars in funding allocated to state and local governments, and the administration offered federal employees a "buyout" that would put them on paid administrative leave until September.
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Boy, if I didn't know any better, I'd think Elon Musk has no idea what he's doing and is just half assing his way through this and leaving the mess for someone else to clean up, like every project he's been involved with in the last 20 years
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>>1384103 >Elon Musk Dilettante Dunning-Kruger PR Forrest Gump man.
> 61 percent of U.S. adults support the president's plan to downsize the federal government. as long as it dont affect them, typical branewashed burger response.
Why is DOE taking care of nukes?
tRump thinks DOE should be eliminated, as big oil runs itsself.
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Dunning-Kruger NYC real estate mogul has extensive knowledge of US bureaucracy and knows what to cut and not.
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>>1384113 >Why is DOE taking care of nukes? Why is the department in charge of nuclear energy in charge of nuclear weapons? Because we build nuclear weapons with byproducts of nuclear energy and it's just easier and safer to keep all that shit under one highly classified and specialized department.
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>>1384103 >Richard Nixon >Someone with political power in 2025 Would you buy a used car from this man?
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