The Department of Transport is panicking after experiencing a much higher amount of voluntary resignations than expected.

The Department of Transport is scrambling to retain its staff after thousands volunteered to resign.

About 4,700 people applied for a second resignation offer, amounting to around 9% of the agency’s total workforce.

The vast majority of offers are said to come from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Employees facing resignation have been forced to attend a series of “career transition” workshops, described as “insulting.”

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    Increases in defense spending and increases in tax cuts for the rich (which isn’t really spending more, but reduces government revenue which thereby increases budget deficits.

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      It wasn’t about cutting spending, DOGE has three objectives:

      • seize control over our institutions
      • collect data that could be used to blackmail people
      • cut pesky investigations that were bothering elon