I don’t believe that the federal government downsizing is wrong.

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This downsizing needs to happen.

I actually have extraordinary empathy for the fact that there are many workers in Virginia today or from our federal workforce, who are experiencing real concerns.

Listen, we have a federal government that is inefficient, and we have an administration that is taking on that challenge of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse and driving efficiency in our federal government. It needed to happen.

Your days of leeching off the public may have come to an end, but with a little elbow grease and pluck, you just might successfully transition to actual productive work in the private sector.

I understand, and I actually have extraordinary empathy, for the fact that there are many workers In Virginia today from our federal workforce who are experiencing real concerns.

There may be some disruption to Virginians along the way and I’m very empathetic to those concerns.

We first need to recognize that this process that the federal government is going through is needed because of the inefficiency and bloat of the federal government.

We are still under a state of emergency.

The steps that President Trump is taking are steps … that he told everyone he was going to do and received a massive, massive vote of confidence by the American people to do.

significant damage that is affecting community lifelines.