The employees and all of their knowledge will be gone – they will have moved on to other jobs or retired
Trump will have gotten rid of the buildings
I assume that the Trump administration will have destroyed paper and digital records so there will be no history or baseline to start from.
Nobody will want to work for the federal government. There is no job security. A future Republican administration can get rid of them and their work. The Supreme Court is Trump’s accomplice.
Republicans will try to block funding to rebuild agencies. Their increase to the debt from their tax cuts for rich people will also make it harder to get funding.
Absolutely this. It requires intention, infrastructure and resources. And it requires holding those who did it accountable
Supreme Court lets Trump destroy the federal govt while waiting to decide if it’s ok to destroy the federal govt. What am I missing here? How does this get put back together again? How many lives are destroyed before we find out if it’s legal? What msg to future leaders?www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p…
Thanks to @brianbeutler.bsky.social for handing me the keys to his newsletter to talk about why the anti-Trump coalition needs to be thinking now about rebuilding the government once he leaves office — and about why we'll fail if we're too timid or play conventional budget politics.
Sad! 