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Trump administration reportedly planning to fire 2,145 NASA employees (www.theguardian.com)

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The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities.

According to documents obtained by Politico, most employees leaving are in senior-level government ranks, depriving the agency of decades of experience as part of a push to slash the size of the federal government through early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations.

The documents indicate that 1,818 of the staff currently serve in core mission areas, like science or human space flight, while the others work in mission support roles including information technology, or IT.

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Let’s say it’s $250,000 on average for these employees base pay + benefits. That’s about half a billion in savings.

Which is ~~0.0016%~~ 0.016% of the $3Trillion dollars in debt the MAGAs just approved. So this basically saves us nothing and only hurts our ability to invest in technological innovation.

What a bunch of dumb fucks.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Being pedantic about a good point, but I'm pretty sure you have an extra zero in that percentage. 0.016% of 3 trillion is 480 million, 0.0016% is 48 million

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