USCMO Urges Trump and Musk to Address Government Waste Instead of Cutting Public Services

On 7 March 2025, the US Coun­cil of Mus­lim Orga­ni­za­tions (USCMO) pub­lished a state­ment express­ing con­cern over Pres­i­dent Trump and Elon Musk’s abrupt fir­ings of fed­er­al work­ers and cuts to pub­lic ser­vices, urg­ing them to focus on gen­uine gov­ern­ment waste. The arti­cle begins:

(Wash­ing­ton, D.C., 3/7/2025) – The US Coun­cil of Mus­lim Orga­ni­za­tions (USCMO), the nation’s umbrel­la group of Mus­lim asso­ci­a­tions, today expressed deep con­cern about the harm­ful impact that Pres­i­dent Trump and Elon Musk’s abrupt and indis­crim­i­nate fir­ings of fed­er­al work­ers, selec­tive cuts to fed­er­al spend­ing, and attempts to dis­man­tle pub­lic ser­vices ded­i­cat­ed to pro­tect­ing Amer­i­cans from fraud, trav­el dan­gers, food con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and envi­ron­men­tal threats. USMCO called on the Trump admin­is­tra­tion to drop “fake pop­ulism” and focus on true excess­es of gov­ern­ment spend­ing, start­ing with the bloat­ed Pen­ta­gon bud­get and bil­lions in Amer­i­can tax­pay­er dol­lars sent to sup­port dic­ta­tor­ships and war crim­i­nal gov­ern­ments over­seas. In the five weeks since Trump assumed office, Musk’s so-called Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy (DOGE) has attempt­ed to indis­crim­i­nate­ly fire thou­sands of fed­er­al work­ers en masse, includ­ing work­ers in crit­i­cal agen­cies. Near­ly 80 per­cent of these ter­mi­nat­ed gov­ern­ment employ­ees are our neigh­bors who (no longer) work serv­ing the com­mon pub­lic. The result is not only a sud­den swelling of the unem­ployed but also threats to the essen­tial pub­lic ser­vices – like health­care, con­sumer pro­tec­tion, fair hous­ing cas­es, and immi­gra­tion pro­cess­ing. So far, DOGE has com­plete­ly ignored even mas­sive gov­ern­ment spend­ing on expen­di­tures that do noth­ing to help the Amer­i­can peo­ple, such as the Israeli government’s war crimes.

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Key Points:

• The US Coun­cil of Mus­lim Orga­ni­za­tions (USCMO) crit­i­cized Pres­i­dent Trump and Elon Musk for abrupt fir­ings of fed­er­al work­ers and cuts to pub­lic ser­vices, urg­ing a focus on gen­uine gov­ern­ment waste.
• USCMO called for address­ing the bloat­ed Pen­ta­gon bud­get and bil­lions sent to sup­port for­eign dic­ta­tor­ships and war crim­i­nal governments.
• The Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy (DOGE) has fired thou­sands of fed­er­al work­ers, impact­ing essen­tial pub­lic ser­vices like health­care and con­sumer protection.
• USCMO Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Ous­sama Jam­mal empha­sized the need to refo­cus spend­ing cuts on true gov­ern­ment excess­es and rehire pub­lic servants.

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