Charlie Kirk says 90% of federal jobs “should not exist”
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From the February 24, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): It's not even that they themselves are worthy of the criticism, which they are. A lot of these people are less than desirable. They they could not hold a job at your local Chipotle. In fact, your local Uber Eats driver, your local Chipotle worker, they're working their tail off every day, and God bless them. But the federal work — those are plushy jobs where nothing is done. These jobs never should have existed in the first place. And both Republicans and Democrats — George W. Bush, alongside Bill Clinton, alongside Barack Hussein Obama, alongside Joe Biden, have been protectorates of this bipartisan regime that we talk about a lot, the uniparty. Where there are millions of jobs that should not exist. There are famously entire departments of the government just filled with people taking months on end to do what would take a day in a start up or any real company with a bottom line. It is so telling that asking a federal worker to take five minutes or two minutes to explain what exactly you do here has become such a controversy. It proves that the culture in government is rotten, and the media is going along with it.
MSNBC right now has “Musk to federal workers, justify your job or else.” Yes, that's the way things work in the real world, not the fantasy world of government, because the money is running out. If there's only one takeaway from our time together today that I want you to internalize, it's that President Trump and Elon Musk and JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are challenging the D.C. orthodoxy that government is untouchable. Government works for us. They are not a holy realm of existence that we are not allowed to criticize, that we are not allowed to question. Now, mind you, the left, they will criticize every conservative nonprofit. They'll investigate Turning Point USA. They'll find out how many ballot chasers we have on the ground. They'll write ad nauseum about anything in right-wing world, but they will never criticize or lift a finger asking a question about the government. This is not the government's money. It is our money. This is your money. We are a team together in this as U.S. taxpayers, and they have been fleecing us over the last couple of decades.
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For every single person out there that has had a private sector job, and there are millions of you listening and watching, you should be angered and incensed by this, that these people think that they are an untouchable holy class. They think they have been given the divine right of kings, that we serve at the pleasure of this oligarchy, that if you have a federal job, we can't ask a question. We can't dare question your existence. We are just lucky that you'll mention us. As an example, and I could tell you as somebody who has employed — employs well over a thousand people, if America Fest was organized by the federal government, it would take four years to plan it out, it would cost five times as much, and there would be, like, a single podium with five speakers.
The federal government is not just slow and bloated and inefficient, it's largely become 80% unnecessary — of course, there's core function of the federal government that should exist — 80% of these jobs should not exist, 90% should not exist, and they're proving our point. They can't even respond to a crisp email. This is what I do. This is why I exist. Your local janitor at a school could tell you what they do all day long. The person that serves you your Starbucks coffee or serves you your Dunkin' Donuts can tell you to do it all day long. But, no, the HR manager at Department of Commerce, it's against union rules. And the difference is this — when you go to Dunkin' Donuts, that's a voluntary exchange. You are deciding to spend your money at Dunkin' Donuts. No one did that in a mandatory way, but you must pay your taxes or you go to jail.