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Adding to this: the public sector isn't any better off. Doge and Trump attacking his own agencies has put everyone in the government sector on 'freeze up like a deer and hope not to get noticed' mode, because providing an essential service that people need to live ISN'T ENOUGH to spare you Trump's ire.
MAGA likes to pretend that the people getting punished by this are fat old office workers in DC that soak up government money and don't do anything, but they miss the forest for the trees. The government is an absolutely massive employer in the US, and government funding keeps the wheels of a lot of industries spinning. When that all freezes up, a shitton of projects and contracts across the US all have no idea whether or not the work they have already signed for and started work on is actually going to be funded to be completed.
Its just a recipe for a petrified economy all around. The only reason that shit hasn't gotten worse faster is because of how strong an economy we had to start with, but just because we are bleeding out slow doesn't mean we are not bleeding out.