The Washington Examiner’s Samantha-Jo Roth predicts that U.S. agencies will follow the “proper procedure” to adhere to their government efficiency cuts, which she contends are “not what we saw before.”
The Trump administration has been busy seeking to eliminate waste in the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday that his department had cut $580 billion in waste. Two months after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Roth suggested that DOGE’s “reduction in force” would be seen in a few months.
“These agencies are going to follow a proper procedure to lay off a lot of their workers; that is not what we saw before,” Roth detailed on Fox Business’s Making Money with Charles Payne. “We saw a lot of these probationary employees who were just across the board cut.”
When asked by host Charles Payne if these initial cuts were “mean-spirited,” Roth suggested that it “doesn’t matter” whether or not they are, but there are “proper procedures” that need to be followed with these mass layoffs.
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Amid these anticipated cuts, DOGE has also reduced its initial goals, initially boasting about the 47 Social Security office properties it aimed to cut but now only listing 23 offices set to have their leases terminated. A DOGE spokesperson has clarified that they were “adjusting” their approach where “current space remains the most suitable option.”
On Thursday, a judge denied former board members from the U.S. Institute of Peace’s request for a restraining order against DOGE, saying there was “confusion in the complaint on a number of levels.” However, she sympathized with the former USIP board members, stating that DOGE staffers treated them “abominably.”
