Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others, according to a Justice Department filing.
The Trump administration on Friday began laying off more than 4,000 federal workers, according to a court filing, as the government remains shut down due to the inability of Congress to reach a funding deal.
Reduction-in-force notices are being sent to federal workers across seven departments, with the Treasury Department and Department of Health and Human Services being the hardest hit and accounting for more than half of the total layoffs, according to a new Justice Department filing.
The court filing is in response to a lawsuit over the shutdown layoffs from the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO.
The deal used to be that you took a pay cut relative to the private sector for better job security and sometimes benefits. I don’t see why anyone would accept lower pay to work for the government now unless they were truly desperate.
Coincidentally this is an effective way for the party of “government doesn’t work” to sabotage government for the long term.
This was their goal and has been for decades. A self-fulfilling prophecy that the government doesn’t work spoonfed to you by the billionaires who are actively breaking it.
Well, and some people legitimately love the work and/or their country and serving it. If they are going to get a slap in the face from assholes like Taco who think they are a king, I don’t see why anyone would bother, though. Taco and the Confederates do so very much to destroy civic pride and civic engagement.
The Karens that wave the flag while clutching “the” bible don’t love this country. Not really.