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Unknown A
Donald Trump was asked about this email that went out from Doge which said, please respond to this email with five things you did this week and CC your manager. Trump was asked about it and Trump said that there are people who are going to be sort of semi fired. Semi fired? I think in the business world we call it a layoff, but Trump is describing it as a semi firing. Let's see what he had to say.
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Unknown B
Do you think that Doge could benefit from more streamline communication? There was that email telling employees to give five things that they've done last week. Head then told people to ignore it.
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Unknown C
But you about the last email that was sent where he wanted to know what you did this week. You know why he wanted that, by the way? I thought it was great because we have people that don't show up to work and nobody even knows if they weren for the government. So by asking the question, tell us what you did this week. What he's doing is saying, are you actually working? And then if you don't answer like you're sort of semi fired or you're fired.
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Unknown A
Semi fired. I like that.
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Unknown C
Because a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to find that's how there.
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Unknown A
Are people who don't exist that are.
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Unknown D
Getting paid spe badly.
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Unknown C
Various parts of our government were run by and especially by this last group. So what they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working? And you know, where is all that? Where's the money going? We have found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far. Fraud.
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Unknown A
Remember that so far they have not proven a single dollar of fraud.
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Unknown C
And we've just started. We're actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there because maybe somebody sold the gold, tons of gold.
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Unknown B
Some of the.
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Unknown C
So I think it was actually there was a lot of genius in sending it. We're trying to find out if people are working. And so we're sending a letter to peopler1.
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Unknown A
Now, of course, the reasons not to send such an email are obviously the effect on morale, that it would have to have an entire government workforce all of a sudden, say, is my job dependent on how. And if I answer this email, another reason not to send it would be that their management and supervisors didn't know it was coming. And all of a sudden you put them in the position of having to concede to their employees. We don't know what the hell is s going on? Don't immediately respond. Another reason not to send it would be that emails from people telling you what they are claiming to have worked on doesn't really get you to the heart of what people are doing or what they should be doing or whether the functions of these departments are valuable to the country or not. There's a million reasons not to send such an email, but Trump likes it and he says if you don't respond you're going to be semi fired.
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Unknown A
Now I'll be honest with you, the deadline for responding has already passed so far and I'm not saying it hasn't happened so far. I have not seen anything definitive as to have people started to be laid off in droves for non response. What, what is going to be done with that information? Has anything been decided or determined? Or was it another exercise in just wasting people's time? Because that's also something Elon is known for, which is an exercise that you tell people, hey, here's what we're going to do. But then at the end of the day you don't actually use it to make any actionable decisions, which is just wasting people's time. It's what we would call busy work. And in the midst of this, as Americans see that this is what the administration is focused on, they don't like it. Well, I wrote a book.
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Unknown D
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Unknown D
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Unknown A
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Unknown D
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