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President Donald Trump's mass purge of federal workers from the civil service accidentally swept up safety inspectors on the front lines of containing a bird flu outbreak — and his administration is struggling to rehire them.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

This is not at all surprising when they're firing workers in charge of nuclear weapons and nuclear safety.

No thought or consideration given. They are, as Vivek Ramaswamy puts it, taking a chainsaw to the federal civil service, to the detriment of all of us.