This is an older article from propublica, but this is the explanation for anyone wondering why they are doing what they’re doing to federal workers.

Trump and his team are purposely trying to break the government. And whatever bullshit reasons they give about a Marxist takeover or the deep state or whatever, the actual effect is that China and Russia will win the century and America will lose.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

“We want to put them in trauma.”