A nearby state should take the opportunity to pick these people up. They appear to do good work and this is a rare opportunity to get a good prebuilt IT team that is willing to work at government rates.
> US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say
> Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-...
Make employee feel job insecurity.
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Profit?
Why, Trump doesn't follow orders well enough?
In other words, the federal government will have to raise wages to get qualified candidates in competition with private-sector jobs, probably costing more money in the long term.
I just listened to Trump say, "You're playing cards with the lives of millions of people. You're playing cards with WWIII. I am forcing you to play cards because you made a campaign appearance for a different candidate." I was dumbfounded. Then I looked around at all the people nodding their heads and saying, "Right on!"
Some people think that "reality" TV is reality. And some people think that reality is just another TV show. What a world when you put the word "real" in front of the word "reality" to try to differentiate it: real reality. The spinning top trick doesn't work.
The aims of the people and the state are quite different.