Trump is starving the U.S. government of critical personnel—another gift to Putin - Daily Kos

There's a lot of ways to completely hobble a functional government. One is to severely underfund it through declining revenues from a whopper of a tax cut to America's richest. Another is to simply cut off funding altogether and shut it down. But another, more insidious way is to hollow out the government's personnel to the point that you're running a skeleton operation. In fact, that's just the way Donald Trump likes it. ....
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