For decades, blue-collar workers in America were told not to worry. When manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas, when coal mines were shut down, when drilling permits were yanked—there was always a plan for them. “Green jobs,” they said. “Learn to code,” they sneered. The people whose livelihoods were obliterated by government fiat were expected to adapt, take lower pay, or simply disappear.
The truth is, the ruling class never cared. The Democrats who once claimed to be the party of the working man long ago abandoned that mission in favor of ideological purity and elite priorities. The working class became an afterthought—a problem to be managed, a voting bloc to be manipulated, a demographic to be guilt-tripped into accepting their own economic demise for the sake of NetZero and “equity.”
Here is Jen Psaki in 2021 telling oil pipeline workers that got laid off by the Biden Admin that they could go get green jobs pic.twitter.com/GDY5k5U1qW
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 24, 2025
Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s policies didn’t just disrupt industries; they deliberately crushed them. They weren’t failures of policy—they were successes of ideology. They wanted coal and oil jobs gone. They wanted American industry weakened. They wanted a dependent, desperate workforce that could be pacified with government handouts while the real wealth and power accumulated at the top.
But now, the script has flipped.
For decades, the administrative state has operated with impunity, growing larger, more expensive, and more unaccountable to the taxpayers who fund it. But under President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), that era is coming to an end.
The latest battleground? The Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—the agency responsible for overseeing the federal workforce. And it’s being slashed.
After they get fired they can learn to code 😂
According to Joe Biden it’s easy. pic.twitter.com/jMfDcnqFhb
— Daily Trite 🇺🇸 (@realDailyTrite) February 23, 2025
In just the last ten days, 50 career employees at OPM were let go through reductions in force (RIFs). The agency’s entire 40-person procurement team has been eliminated, along with half of the staff overseeing employee data protection. A 20-person communications team? Gone. A seven-member “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) team? Gone.
This isn’t just about OPM. It’s a model for what’s coming next: mass reductions across the federal bureaucracy. And that’s exactly the point.
For years, the deep state has operated under the belief that its members are untouchable—that once you’re in, you stay in, regardless of performance, cost, or necessity. That’s why federal agencies have ballooned to 2.3 million civilian employees—a workforce larger than the population of some U.S. states.
On ABC, Rahm Emanuel literally says a Biden White House should tell people laid off from retail stores like JC Penney to learn to code.
He actually said this. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/xlSnVi7445
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2020
Trump and Musk see it differently. Their approach is simple: government exists to serve the American people—not itself. And if agencies are bloated, inefficient, and wasting taxpayer dollars? Cut them down to size.
The first phase of government layoffs under DOGE was targeted at probationary employees and voluntary resignations, reducing the workforce by 95,000. But now comes the real test: cutting deep into career employees, the ones who thought they were beyond accountability.
It’s not just OPM. Emails from the General Services Administration (GSA)—the agency in charge of government real estate—confirm that RIFs are set to begin there as well. And they’re just getting started.
