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Summary

IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 22 hours ago

Back before the 2016 election, Trump ceded that his "University' had been a scam and paid back the students who had sued him. When I pointed out that Trump was scamming his own people, a MAGoo wrote back that those people deserved to be scammed because they hadn't read the fine print.