A Trump-voting Internal Revenue Service worker said he was shocked to be fired in the latest mass cull of federal employees by Elon Musk’s “wrecking ball” DOGE squad.
On Thursday, between 250 and 300 probationary IRS workers in Philadelphia were let go. Night-shift workers were reportedly slated to receive their lay-off letters Thursday evening. Union leader Alex Jay Berman said around 400 workers in total would be given the chop, NBC Philadelphia reported.
One of those who was given his marching orders was Donald Trump voter Robert McCabe. He told NBC10 he was brutally let go when waiting for instructions on how to deal with a log-in issue.
He said a whole host of employees had tech issues, and were generally in a “downtrodden mood.”
“We sat around all day and did nothing, I mean, talk about government efficiency. We waited around all day while we waited for our fate,” McCabe said. He said the fired employees received an email advising them they had been let go, then “we were escorted out of the building.”
McCabe said he actually backed the idea of cutting government spending, but thought it would have been done more gracefully.
“You know when he talks about government waste and all that, yes, I’m behind it,” he said. “I believe there is a lot of stuff in the government that needs fixing. And that’s part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for the government, actually. To help change. Help change the things that are wrong in the world, you know?”
“I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”
“It was very chaotic, there was no organisation to it at all,” he added.
