Trump And Musk Are Making Government Services Much Harder To Access

The size of the civilian federal government workforce is about 2.4 million workers (and is the largest employer in the country). That sounds like a lot, but it is only about 0.007% of the U,S. population.

And that 0.007% of the population provide valuable services for this country. They enforce our laws, provide support to our military, protect our environment, oversee health services for millions, give critical help to the poverty stricken, help students access a college education, provide income for seniors, and many other tasks.

One of the most important tasks is to communicate with citizens trying to access government services. 

They are already stretched thin in providing this service. Citizens needing help can wait many hours or days to actually talk to a government employee who can help them. Sadly, it is going to get much worse.

Donald Trump has authorized Elon Musk to take a chainsaw to the federal workforce. And he is slashing the number of employees in agency after agency - without taking into account whether those employees are needed or not. For instance, they cut the employees who oversaw our nuclear weapons and the employees trying to control the growing bird flu problem (and are now trying to find and rehire them).

The same heavy hand is being used to trim the workforce in other agencies - including those citizens need to access help from the government (income taxes, veterans affairs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, etc.).

It will soon be near impossible for citizens to access a federal employee who can help them - and that will be true of citizens in both red and blue states.

Currently, right-wingers are celebrating the Trump/Musk actions. That will change when they (or their family and friends) need government help and can't get it.

Thousands of people are being cut from an already stretched thin workforce. Soon the government will be unable to service its citizens adequately - and the blame will rest solely with Donald Trump and his sycophants.