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🚨 MASS EXODUS: 154,000 Deep Staters have taken Trump's buyouts to leave the federal government so far.

Trump is coming at the Swamp from every direction. And it's working.

This is the biggest civil service downsizing in history.

Here’s what it means 🧵

2/ The “Deferred Resignation Program” gave bureaucrats 8 months of paid leave if they resigned.

Critics called it wasteful. But it’s saving taxpayers $20+ billion per year. And it's gotten the Deep Staters to fire themselves.

Trump’s plan wasn’t just efficient—it was brutal.

3/ OPM Director Scott Kupor put it bluntly:

“The Deferred Resignation Program was a practical, humane, and voluntary option to accelerate workforce transitions in a system that desperately needed movement.”

Translation: Trump finally broke the permanent bureaucracy.

4/ Fewer than 6,000 federal workers were fired for cause last year under Biden. That’s out of 2.4 million.

Less than 5,000 are political appointees. Most can't be fired individually.

But you can have huge Reductions in Force. You can have reorganizations. You can have buyouts.

5/ Senate Democrats are fuming.
They say it cost billions in buyout pay.

But those were one-time costs.
The savings are permanent.

This is standard private-sector restructuring—applied to the Leviathan.

The Dems are really mad because they're losing power.

6/ More cuts are coming. More positions will be eliminated. LOTS more.

And others will be filled with Trump-aligned, mission-driven personnel.

And it's not just people. It's regulations. Trump is pushing to cut 50% of all federal rules by 2026.

7/ Trump is doing what no one else could:

Turning a $36 trillion debt train around by dismantling the real Deep State—the unaccountable bureaucratic class.

And he’s just getting started.

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