THANK YOU CHUCK SCHUMER : TRUMP WILL REDUCE GOVERNMENT WORK FORCE BY 600,000
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Statement by Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate, commented on the fast moving White House policy of responding to the Government shutdown:
"President Donald Trump will respond to the opportunity provided to him by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Senate Democrats with the refusal to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government. Trump has accepted early retirement and fired 300,000 non-essential employees of the federal government prior to the Government shutdown today. The White House has announced they will issue Reductions in Force very soon. Public Advocate predicts the number will exceed the 300,000 previously accomplished and will match that number with 300,000 more firings this year to make the total dismissals 600,000 this year," says Delgaudio.
The federal government will soon begin laying off workers if the government shutdown persists, Fox News Digital has learned.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought held a call with House Republicans on Wednesday to discuss how the shutdown will affect the U.S. government.
He told lawmakers that reductions in force, or "RIFs," meaning worker layoffs, were "imminent" and "likely a day or two out," Fox News Digital was told.
.................Vought later described the layoffs as decisions that will be made by agency heads based on what roles are appropriate under current spending levels and under the Trump administration's budget priorities, Fox News Digital was told.
His new guidance comes after the OMB issued a memo earlier this month directing agencies to consider plans for layoffs should the government shut down.
The White House budget office is instructing federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, specifically targeting employees who work for programs that are not legally required to continue.
The Office of Management and Budget move to permanently reduce the government workforce if there is a shutdown, outlined in a memo shared with POLITICO ahead of release to agencies tonight, escalates the stakes of a potential shutdown next week.
In the memo, OMB told agencies to identify programs, projects and activities where discretionary funding will lapse Oct. 1 and no alternative funding source is available. For those areas, OMB directed agencies to begin drafting RIF plans that would go beyond standard furloughs, permanently eliminating jobs in programs not consistent with President Donald Trump's priorities in the event of a shutdown.