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On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
Even in the private sector, just so we are clear--because there are also differences between the public and the private sector in terms of civil service protections and unions and all that. I am happy with that because, by the way, the unions are some of the people who are standing up not just for the rights of the workers but the services they provide. I think this is a little bit of a--look, I know not everybody is paying super close attention to all aspects of this, but I think in the abstract, people might have gone, like, yeah, maybe you should cut the Federal workforce by X, and there is probably a lot waste, fraud, and abuse. Conceptually thinking, yeah, who cares? Then suddenly you realize, oh, no, that is a VA home loan. Oh, I actually don't want a shortage of air traffic controllers. No, I don't want a private company collecting my biometric data as I go through the airport. So there is kind of a broad recognition, there is a waking up to the idea that destroying the Federal Government is doing damage to the United States of America. It is not doing damage to woke something. It is not doing damage to the left. It is just that the Federal Government has an important role in society whether you like it or not. We can argue about the size and the scope of that Federal Government, but that is not what we are arguing about anymore. They are out to destroy it.…
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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