After a few weeks of Shock and Awe, the Resistance vibe has fully returned to ABC Whirled News Tonight. A goofy item by Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce demonstrates that the media have no playbook for Trump except the one they ran in 2017.
Here’s how the report closed: with caterwauling over the ongoing reduction of force at the federal government, and with classist whining over Elon Musk’s influence:
MARY BRUCE: 75,000 federal workers have accepted the administration’s buyout offer to get paid until September or risk being laid off. About 3% of the federal workforce. Less than the 5% to 10% the administration was hoping for. That offer now closed, and tonight, we’re learning mass layoffs for those who didn’t take the offer have begun, with thousands of people expected to be let go. The Department of Education yesterday firing 40 employees…
