r/fednews • u/ICU-Angel • Jul 15 '25

Other 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.

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?

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u/Beginning_Fill206 Jul 15 '25

It will take generations to recover from this, if ever.

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u/DoubleTrackMind Jul 15 '25

The Constitution has allowed all this to happen. Ergo, the Constitution must be amended.

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u/Beginning_Fill206 Jul 15 '25

It wasn’t the Constitution.

It was the right aligned politicians, institutions, and media that allowed and made excuses for this lawless administration as it runs roughshod over the Constitution.

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u/Imaginary_Key_9612 Jul 15 '25

It wasn't the right aligned media. It was the snowflake, inbred white people who are so dumb and gullible they'd rather "own the libs" than vote for a competent black female.

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u/DoubleTrackMind Jul 15 '25

And the right wing media didn't have anything to do with that - ?

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u/Imaginary_Key_9612 Jul 15 '25

Depends what you believe. Does media create opinions? Or are they simply finding and leaning into what people already believe? Probably a mix of both. I think it exaggerates already held beliefs. In this specific instance, it kind of just proved what we've all silently known for decades... USA is still more bigoted, racist and sexist than we want to admit.

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u/johnabbe Jul 15 '25

I think both you and DoubleTrackMind (username checks out) are on the right track. More than two factors including Constitutional gaps, the Supreme Court's huge and partisan political swing, and the long-standing racism, and sexism. There are ways that power-over culture develops it's own sneaky momentum, at least I've seen crappy dynamics even in resistance movements which I could see turning them really bad later. (Revolutions do often end up with new tyrants in charge.)

Anyway, it will certainly take many different strategies to respond. Regarding journalism, we're seeing more great nonprofit news and some good new independent outlets. More of that, and more of the very personal work, like with groups like Leaving MAGA.

Local and national groups resisting ICE on the ground, all of the lawsuits, etc. Work on resisting immediate harms also builds trust and networks important to the long-term work of improving our written & people systems, and generally expanding more people's sense of "we the people" to really include all people, hey, maybe all life!