Democrats are freaking out over proposed plans by DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, to conduct mass firings of federal workers when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office.
Virginia House Speaker Don Scott Jr., a Democrat, wrote a letter to Virginia's unemployment agency warning of the implications that massive layoffs could have as Virginia is home to a large portion of the federal workers that work in Washington D.C.
In that letter, Scott wrote to Virginia Employment Commissioner Demetrios claiming that "We should all be concerned about what these changes mean for the employees raising their families in Virginia, paying taxes in Virginia and calling Virginia home."
The letter continued saying, "Taking President-elect Trump at his word that he will immediately move to downsize the workforce and relocate agencies, we can safely assume that a large portion of our workforce that resides in the commonwealth will be negatively affected."
Democrats are concerned that DOGE purging the federal government of bloat will lead to unemployment but are unconcerned with the massive costs that maintaining a bloated federal workforce costs taxpayers.
Scott's letter attracted a quick response from Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle who blasted Scott for focusing on the wrong question.
McDougle stated, "That's the wrong question. The question should be whether we are taking dollars that Virginians are earning and paying to the federal government and whether they are being spent wisely. If the federal government is paying people to do jobs they shouldn't be doing, then that's spending taxpayer dollars unwisely."
Democrats are focused on the wrong issue and are ignoring the massive burden that the federal workforce puts on the American taxpayer.
DOGE co-leader, Vivek Ramaswamy, has been clear that the agency will be outright deleting unnecessary federal departments and trimming down workers in other departments.
Ramaswamy told Fox News, "We expect mass reductions … [and] certain agencies to be deleted outright."
These cuts could be paired with a legislative effort by Senator Joni Ernst to relocate one-third of federal workers outside the District of Columbia-Maryland-Virginia area which will effectively gut D.C.
McDougle used Scott's letter to call attention to Virginia Democrats funneling massive sums towards D.C. instead of supporting Virginia's non-federal workers who actually live and work in the Commonwealth.
McDougle tore into Virginia Democrats saying, "I didn't feel our Democratic friends were as concerned with the millions of dollars going to fund Metro amid [federal workers not being required to] go into the office and having to subsidize them."
Republicans want to prioritize the livelihood of American taxpayers and the best way to do that is to cut back on government waste, much of which comes in the form of unnecessary government workers who enjoy massive salaries and extensive benefits while regular Americans foot the bill.
Cleaning out D.C.'s federal workforce will also make Virginia more competitive for Republicans in national elections as Virginia's federal workers who commute into D.C. are a large reason why Virginia is a Blue state.
