The plan is to cut 10,000 full-time employees spread across departments tasked with responding to disease outbreaks, approving new drugs, providing insurance for the poorest Americans. These cuts are on top of the already huge number of firings.

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  • Sektor@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Does he have any idea where will those people go? And what will they do to survive? What will they buy when they have no job?

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        I expect that a lot of their constituents do. And the Republcians will change their tune when they fear the public anger over their actions more than they fear the billionaires

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          “this is the fault of the democrats and Joe Biden. If they hadn’t messed everything up we wouldn’t need to fix it like this”.

          They’ll say that and their constituents will listen. Remember, these are people who voted for the guy who wrecked the economy over the guy who made progress improving it because the economy was bad and they wanted it to be better, like what the first guy wrecked.