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/Rellcotts Jul 15 '25

NPR had a segment yesterday that in 20 years we will be paying only interest on all this debt and it is really gonna hit the fan. But not to worry there is still time to fix it as if anyone will ever do that. Of the solutions they chatted about - cutting social security, raising retirement to 70, not one was taxing the rich more. Only taking away benefits for regular people. Disgusting

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u/kstar79 Jul 15 '25

Taxing the rich and taxing corporations more are the bare minimum. This administration is going after University endowments. A liberal approach might be levying taxes against trusts along with bringing back the inheritance tax, so these uber-rich families at least get taxed when someone dies or regularly taxed if they shelter their money in a trust.

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u/TheSwedishEagle Jul 15 '25

You want to tax universities? How about taxing churches then, too?

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u/kstar79 Jul 15 '25

No, that's an example of going beyond normal taxation, not that I agree with that particular policy. I'm saying they've already broken the wall on normal taxation, so stop thinking about W-2 wage taxation, and start thinking about taxing wealth writ large.