There are now federal workers who accepted a buyout that are receiving termination notices anyway. Moreover, even if all federal civilian employees were dismissed, it would only reduce federal spending by $270 billion, and the government would still have over $1 trillion of deficit spending.

Keep in mind that federal civilian employees handle the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, which oversees the health care system for veterans. Also included are Department of Energy staff that oversee the safety and security of our nuclear weapons systems. And, yes, those departments are being targeted with indiscriminate firing actions that are dismissing all employees still in a probationary phase.