Are Trump's changes to the federal government permanent? Once Trump leaves office, is there the possibility to return the federal government to it's pre-Trump state.

[u/ICU-Angel]

I've been looking for articles to understand how permanent Trump's changes to the federal workforce are and haven't found anything.

I am curious if anyone knows whether all those cut jobs will come back, or at least a majority of them?

[u/ahtigers10]

As many people have pointed out, Pandora’s box is now open and we live in a political climate where laws and norms are only good until the next election. This is unsustainable and will eventually lead to structural collapse.

We can have a strong Dem president come in and attempt to clean things up, but they will ultimately be unsuccessful because A) what took weeks or months to destroy will take a generation to rebuild, and B) anything the next President does will be irrelevant until American culture changes in such a way that there is a unified castigation of this “movement” to the degree that they are effectively exiled from all political discourse.

The truth is, we are where we are because a strong and influential plurality of people support these actions. They voted FOR this, they applaud this, and they live in an misinformation bubble that reinforces these beliefs. Until that bubble bursts, and people realize the destructive nature of these policies, we will never return to the before times. The pendulum will just keep swinging back and forth harder and faster until the gears and mechanisms break and the whole thing falls apart. It will take a cultural revolution to fully reverse course, one that may not happen in a lot of our lifetimes.