Most people think from government workers As part of a face -free bureaucracy with soft and clearly useless jobs.
Now it is true that the federal workforce has been blown up and must be cut. But the politics of the massive shooting of Elon Musk is shifting, so that President Trump mitigates his approach to the Doge campaign.
An important factor in this evolution is the negative media attention, which Trump follows with great interest. It is no coincidence that he recently said that the budget cuts should be done with a “scalpel” and not a “leader”. He is acutely tailored to the growing return against the enormous firedages – which include 80,000 in veteran cases.
Many of the stories, on television and in print, follow a formula: lead with one person who has started or negatively influenced by The Muskebros. That brings a face to the story, an actual sad person whose life has been called.
Consider this New York Times part:
“In the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Pittsburgh, researchers have prepared for months for a clinical test with a new medicine to treat advanced cancers of the mouth, throat and voice box.
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“They were ready to register patients last month – veterans whose cancer had spread to other tissue and who had no treatment options.
Then a problem arose.
“The hospital was unable to renew the task of an important staff member involved in conducting the research, a typical routine process that is thwarted by an recruitment framework imposed in the context of the government -saving project led by President Trump and Elon Musk. Suddenly the clinical process was on guard.
“They were ready to register,” said Alanna Caffas, the Chief Executive of the Veterans Health Foundation, who manages the tests. “They had the laboratory kits on the spot. They had the medicine to release. But they could not renew the clinical research coordinator.”
Here is one Washington Post Report From Texas:
“Jaylee Williams had to find somewhere to free her son.
The 19-year-old knew more about Vat races on her horses Bet-N-Pep than the complicated statistics whose health insurance takes. But relief for Williams and her boyfriend, Xander Lopez, came when they realized that the Medina Regional Hospital – just 15 minutes from their house – accepted medicaidThe federal condition program that covers medical costs for Americans with a lower income. “Supplier groups an hour’s drive in San Antonio had refused to take the insurance, she remembered while she rocked Little Ryker.” You never know when anything could happen, “Williams said, with Lopez adding:” I have no idea where we would have gone “without Medina Regional Hospital.
But the lifeline that the hospital with critical access of 25 beds offered to Williams and Lopez could disappear in Hondo and other communities like this. ”
That is because rural hospitals fear ‘massive medicaid-deployment’, because they are so dependent on the Federal-State program. Trump says that he will not allow austerity on Medicaid, as well as Medicare and Social Security, but that would be the only way in which Republicans could save a promised $ 80 billion. About 72 million people are on Medicaid.
In the Atlantic OceanJonathan Lemire says that the shift of Trump on Doge started on February 19.
“Jesse Watters, a co-gastheer of The Fox News Hitshow ‘The Five’ … told a surprisingly emotional story about a friend who worked in the Pentagon who was ready to lose his job as part of the radical cutbacks of the Trump government for the federal workforce. “I finally found a person I knew who got doge’d, and it struck me in the heart,” said Watters, who encouraged his voscollegas to “be a little less callig.”
“Trump looked at the clip and asked advisors if it resonated with his base of supporters, according to one of the three officials of the White House with whom I spoke for this story.”
Lemire adds that “during the following weeks the president became unhappy with the television reporting of cutbacks that his voters make, according to two of those officials, while the White House calls on cabinet members and Republican legislators frustrated by Elon Musk.”
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Trump determined that freedom of choice should make the dismissals and cuts, and Musk should only intervene if they fail to take action. The move can also be aimed at the various court cases against Trump, because Musk is only supposed to be an adviser and not a government officer.
Tensions have risen behind the scenes (as well as publicly during the meetings of the town hall, to the point that the Gop encouraged its members to stop holding the events). When The Times Reports:
“Marco Rubio was furious. Here he was in the cabinet room of the White House, the State Secretary, sitting next to the president and listened to a litany of attacks by the richest man in the world.
Sitting diagonally opposite, about the elliptical mahogany, Elon Musk let Mr. Rubio have it and accused him of not cutting his staff.
You ‘nobody’ fired ‘, Mr. Musk told Mr. Rubio, and then added that perhaps the only person he had fired was an employee of the Ministry of Efficiency of Mr. Musk.
Mr. Rubio had been private Furious on Mr. Musk for weeks, since his team had effectively closed an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: The United States Agency for International Development. But in the extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday for President Trump and about 20 others – the details of which have not been reported before – Mr Rubio got his grievances from his chest.
The American State Secretary Marco Rubio gives a joint press conference with Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader in the National Palace in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Thursday 6 February 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
Mr. Musk was not true, Mr Rubio said. What about the more than 1500 officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who took early retirement in Buyouts? Don’t they count as fired? He asked sarcastically, or Mr. Musk wanted him to hear all those people again so that he could make a show to dismiss them again. Then he explained his detailed plans for the reorganization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Mr. Musk was not impressed. He told Mr Rubio that he was ‘good on TV’, with the clear subtext that he was not good for much different.”
The president, who eventually defended Musk, denied that such a confrontation took place. “Elon and Marco have a great relationship. Every other explanation than that is fake news !!!” He placed.
Another source of conflicts includes Steve Bannon, the former campaign chef and civil servant of the White House whose “War Room” Podcast is enormously influential with the Maga crowd.
“Mid -February”, ” says a story Co-author of Maggie Haberman: “The president told Mr Bannon that he wanted him to fire the attacks on Mr. Musk and the two men to sit in private, according to two people who are familiar with the comments.”
Bannon has, among other things, called Musk a “parasitic illegal immigrant” and “really malicious person”. Bannon said last month that he and Musk “have a gap that is probably insurmountable.”
Musk has fired back on the X platform that he has transformed: “Bannon is a great talker, but not a great doer. What was he done this week? Nothing.”
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The proposed meeting has not taken place and may never happen.
More important than the Backstage -Sniping is the softening of Trump on the Doge crusade as the human toll becomes clear.
One thing that Trump has not spoken, and this is directly related to his rates on Canada, Mexico and China, is the stock market, where the DOW has been diving thousands of points in recent days.
The president told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo that you cannot look at the stock market, although he likes to brag about it when it goes up.
On her Sunday show, Bartiromo Trump asked if he expected a recession this year.
“I hate to predict things like that,” he said. “There is a period of transition, because what we do is very big.”
President Trump on Sunday morning futures. (Sunday morning futures)
In Journalese, Trump refuses to exclude the recession, although he was only avoiding the question. (But trade secretary Howard Lutnick stated “Meet the Press” that “there will be no recession in America.”)
The doge reputation is also affected by a terrible series of errors. Musk has acknowledged that the Ebola prevention team is fired and must hire them. He also drove bird flu experts and those who are responsible for the maintenance of nuclear weapons and had to hire them back.
And the musk gang is caught claiming savings by terminating contracts that actually expired years ago.
Would this track record in the private sector be considered acceptable?
Tesla shares have been falling for days, together with the market, including a decrease of 16 percent yesterday. According to Forbes, the assets of Musk have sunk since mid -December with $ 121 billion since mid -December. But don’t fear, he is still the richest man in the world.
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When X yesterday suffered a global outages for hours, it seemed like a metaphor for the misery of Elon Musk. He later said that the site once called Twitter was struck by a “massive cyber attack”.
The beating of jobs of the government, with identifiable victims, is simply not the same as the dismissal of software, and the recoil was inevitable. That is why Donald Trump taps the brakes on the entire effort.
