Musk administration lays off weather forecasters, including at least one locally

How many of these people are needed anyway? Just watch Channel 7.

Please: Do a bit of research -- before you pop-off ignorantly because its Trump who is doing the cutting.

The Executive branch work force ballooned during WWII and then again hugely with Johnson's "Great Society." Beginning with Ronald Reagan every President has railed against excessive government and tried to reign it in.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both cut tens of thousands of government jobs. The process known as Reduction in Force even achieved enough celebrity status that RIF jokes were quite commonplace. Bill Clinton balanced several budgets and with the aid of House Speaker Newt Gingerich even ran [briefly] a budget with a surplus.

Excessive government spending and employment which is basically endemic in the system -- your power as a bureaucrat grows with the size of your budget and the number of employees. However, this is exacerbated by the abdication of the Congress from its Constitutional Role of passing actual budgets and then specific appropriations for departments and agencies.

see:
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974 [Public Law 93–344] [As Amended Through P.L. 118–89, Enacted September 30, 2024]

Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 93-344. It was last amended by the public law ...enactment of the public law listed at
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/

...The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).

AN ACT To establish a new congressional budget process; to establish Committees on the Budget in each House; to establish a Congressional Budget Office; to establish a procedure providing congressional control over the impoundment of funds by the executive branch; and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled...

SHORT TITLES.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974’’. Titles I through IX may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Budget Act of 1974’’. Parts A and B of title X may be cited as the ‘‘Impoundment Control Act of 1974’’. Part C of title X may be cited as the ‘‘Line Item Veto Act of 1996’’...

TITLE III—CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS 4
TIMETABLE
SEC. 300. ø2 U.S.C. 631The timetable with respect to the congressional budget process for any fiscal year is as follows:
On or before: ......................Action to be completed:
First Monday in February ..President submits his budget.
February 15 .........................Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
Not later than 6 weeks after President submits budget. Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.
April 1 ..................................Senate Budget Committee reports concurrent resolution on the budget.
April 15 ................................Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the budget.
May 15 .................................Annual appropriation bills may be considered in the House.
June 10 .................................House Appropriations Committee reports last annual appropriation bill.
June 15 .................................Congress completes action on reconciliation legislation.
June 30 .................................House completes action on annual appropriation bills.
October 1 .............................Fiscal year begins.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-10356/pdf/COMPS-10356.pdf

EXCEPT ---- For the most part -- They just don't do it -- instead every year they play a game of brinkmanship about "Government Shutdowns" and then end up passing Continuing Resolutions [ostensibly keeping the spending at the previous year's level] and Omnibus spending bills with thousands of items tucked into the mostly unread thousand page plus monstrosities.