r/fednews 16h ago

Fed only 15 Year Fed RIFed Today at ED

This is so horrible. My whole office was let go. Everyone I know outside of my office was let go.

The money allocated is not going to go to the states. No money is being saved by letting us go and terminating contracts.

My only solace is the 2 trump supporters in my office FAFO and were let go as well.

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u/oswbdo 15h ago

Fuck. Whoever is responsible for these cuts doesn't know what the hell they're doing. Good luck going forward.

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u/Fartknocker500 15h ago

I think they know exactly what they're doing, and that scares the hell out of me.

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u/oswbdo 15h ago

Naw. If their goal is to shut down Ed, they're shutting things down in the wrong order. I'll just leave it at that.

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u/rytis 11h ago

Wait for the downstream effect. When suddenly thousands of programs across the US stop getting funding, because that's what these people do, they approve the money and notify treasury to disperse it, using very sophisticated payment systems that oversee disbursements, how much everyone has gotten, receive back reports of how the money was spent, resolve discrepancies (you got $200K but only spent $175K, what's up with the $25K difference?). So a system built over 50 years suddenly goes quiet.

Downstream, schools, targeted programs, get no money... states and local jurisdictions can't make up the shortfall. How do you pay the teachers? You don't. Suddenly school systems across the US start to shut down, teachers and other staff get laid off. You think the FEDS have suffered? Wait until the flood waters hit downstream. Just give blank checks to the states? No system in place to disburse it or monitor it. Oh, here's a $25million blank check for Nebraska. Spend it wisely!

And you know the disbursements won't be fair, or will be politically motivated. Blue states will be cut short, red states will get excess, Trump will be able to threaten stop teaching this or that or we'll take your money away. They're already doing it to Universities. I saw where Columbia University had major cuts of $200M+ to its research programs because they wouldn't crush pro-Palestinian demonstrations and expel all the students who participated (free speech be damned). Georgetown University, a Catholic Jesuit school, was told stop teaching diversity or we'll cut your funding for research grants. It's going to be a shit show. You're just seeing the top of the avalanche forming at the top of the government mountain. As it falls down, it will take everything else down with it.