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Donald Trump: “We got rid of tremendous numbers of federal workers.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump makes announcement with Lee Zeldin

Published | Video Starts at 31:07

I could have left them and added to what we did, and we would have had almost 100% employment. I could have gotten a great kick out of the fact that we're 100% employed. But We got rid of tremendous numbers of federal workers. and they hated me for it. Now they love me because most of them have gotten jobs in the private sector for two and three times more money than they were being paid by the federal government. (31:07–31:13)

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Asserts that a significant number of federal workers were removed from their positions.

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