Re-hired federal workers should dig holes and fill them up again

Two judges ordered workers fired by Trump to get their jobs back. Since the agencies now run efficiently without them, bringing them back will reduce efficiency.

President Trump wants to dramatically reduce government spending with the goal of balancing the federal budget. When Trump entered office, there were more than 2 million employees on the federal government’s payroll. Trump wants to cut that number in half, saving nearly $1 trillion annually. But two overreaching federal judges say Trump must re-hire the workers he just dismissed. What?

Today with all the technology available, it should be relatively easy to modernize federal departments by eliminating workers and having little or no loss in productivity. In other words, half the number of people, using the most advanced hardware, software and artificial intelligence, should be able to get the job done at half the cost.

Trump has put Elon Musk in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk with his band of hundreds of “techno nerds” can accomplish this. After all, Musk bought Twitter, reduced the workforce by 75%, added improved technology and the rebranded X operates very well today.

But two federal judges, who may not have jurisdiction, have intervened. They said that Trump can’t remove…