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PARKERSBURG, West Va. – Democrats right here have managed to scare most of the native people into considering {that a} go to from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency implies that the federal Bureau of Fiscal Service, a giant employer on the town, is in peril of closing.
Jeff Fox, the Wooden County Democratic Occasion Chair stated early this week, that “the prospect of DOGE’s intervention raises critical considerations about job safety for our residents who devoted their lives to public service.”
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Having spent just a few days on the town, I did speak to locals who have been fearful about this, so I believed, why not ask West Virginia’s extraordinarily well-liked new senator and former governor about it? Here’s what Jim Justice needed to say:
“I’m conscious of the federal government effectivity crew coming to Parkersburg, and I’m supportive of their effort to find wasteful spending,” Justice stated. “This constructing is the accounting for {dollars} flowing out and in of our Treasury. It is sensible why President Trump would look there to find reckless spending. For what we all know at the moment, that is an effort to search out waste, to not layoff people working in Parkersburg.”
The truth that layoffs aren’t within the offing right here didn’t cease a couple of hundred protesters from marching across the Bureau of Fiscal Service on Tuesday screaming bloody homicide about Elon Musk.
A DOGE protester holds an indication in Parkersburg, West Virginia on Tuesday. (Fox Information Digital)
I suspected this may occur, which was why I got here right here. However I wasn’t positive till Tuesday morning. Having breakfast at my resort and throughout from me was a girl sporting a West Virginia ACLU t-shirt and jacket. One or the opposite might have been a coincidence. Each have been a inform.
I walked across the nook to “A Man’s Place,” a barber store the place Wealthy, who has been there since 1973, gave me a fantastic straight razor haircut, and the place I chatted with an older retired gentleman who obtained there simply earlier than me.
He was legitimately involved about local jobs at the BFS, however he additionally instructed me, “We voted for Trump to chop waste. We have gotta give him an opportunity.” On the time I had not but spoken to Sen. Justice’s workplace. I want I might have dispelled that worry, however perhaps he’ll learn this.
After the brief stroll again to Authorities Sq., the gang had assembled, and I ran into Walt, an lawyer who I had met the night time earlier than. He carried an indication imploring that we want a Lincoln, not a DOGE.
About 100 DOGE protesters gathered, fearing DOGE would lower the workforce on the Bureau of Fiscal Service. (Fox Information Digital)
He was form sufficient to introduce me round, and I’ll say everybody was very good, even once they discovered the place I labored.
I talked to Kyle, who stated he’s an “investigative reporter” for the ACLU, and I requested him what particularly they have been protesting.
“None of that is clear,” he instructed me of DOGE. “We don’t know who these individuals are or what they’re doing.” The ACLU wasn’t protesting potential job losses, they have been protesting over information privateness, however that nuance was not clear to the remainder of the city.
The shortage of readability over precisely what DOGE is doing is actual. Even I needed to speak to a Senate workplace to search out out what was happening. And Musk’s odd efficiency within the Oval Workplace in a while Tuesday, together with his son climbing throughout him, was extra distracting than clarifying.
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However, that having been stated, fear-mongering by Democrats is scaring folks, and so they have a accountability to be clear, sincere, and clear about what risks they assume DOGE holds.
One factor that jumped out at me within the midst of the protest was that the identify “Donald Trump” was barely uttered, nor was it written on indicators. All the ire and anger of this protest was directed straight at Elon Musk.
Count on this to proceed. In any case, Trump is the president, and there’s nothing Democrats can do about that. He’s additionally, by fashionable requirements, very talked-about proper now, so the objective now’s to not paint the GOP because the social gathering of Trump, however because the social gathering of Musk.
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For now, plainly the strong authorities jobs that undergird this sleepy, picturesque hamlet are secure, and disgrace on Democrats for baselessly suggesting in any other case. However the Trump administartion and Musk ought to know that folks actually are nervous about this breakneck change that’s occurring.
The federal authorities isn’t an unmanned rocket ship that we will blow up and study classes from. It impacts the every day lives of tens of millions of Individuals, and as unacceptable because the Democrats’ lies are, the American folks might use somewhat extra readability.
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