- they weren't fired overnight and in the highly immature manner DOGE is doing
- it was a measured, thought-out process, not randomly firing all employees on probationary status, or gutting programs that are actually useful to Americans like the CFPB, reducing NIH research, etc.
- most importantly, 3/4 of those were from the Defense Dept, and the whole point was to reduce the defense budget overall, which had become unnecessarily large especially since the Cold War had by then ended.
- he used the savings to balance the budget rather than give a tax cut to the rich
- lastly, there were no conflicts of interests where Clinton was gutting agencies which oversee private companies which he owned
So basically night and day compared to what is happening now.
Yes, DOGE is being raked over the coals but only 77k federal employees have taken their severance package. Clinton also famously proposed majority cuts to the federal workforce.
Trump is getting flack for breaking the law. Clinton’s layoffs were done with Congress which avoided all of the concerns about impoundment or other unapproved changes to their directed spending, they spent months planning first to avoid doing the cycle we’re seeing now where they ask people to come back after telling them they were fired, and they worked with the unions.
- they weren't fired overnight and in the highly immature manner DOGE is doing
- it was a measured, thought-out process, not randomly firing all employees on probationary status, or gutting programs that are actually useful to Americans like the CFPB, reducing NIH research, etc.
- most importantly, 3/4 of those were from the Defense Dept, and the whole point was to reduce the defense budget overall, which had become unnecessarily large especially since the Cold War had by then ended.
- he used the savings to balance the budget rather than give a tax cut to the rich
- lastly, there were no conflicts of interests where Clinton was gutting agencies which oversee private companies which he owned
So basically night and day compared to what is happening now.