WH Orders Permanent Layoffs If Government Shuts Down October 1st

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President Donald Trump’s budget office plans to advise federal program managers to fire employees whose paychecks are financed by annual appropriations if a partial government shutdown begins Oct. 1, rather than just furloughing them as is the usual practice.

An Office of Management and Budget memo, obtained Wednesday night ahead of it being sent to agency heads, said they should consider reduction-in-force or “RIF” notices in cases where there’s no other funding mechanism and the activity they work on is “not consistent with the President’s priorities.”

Congress has not yet passed a stopgap funding patch to tide agencies over beyond the end of the current fiscal year. The House on Friday passed a “clean” seven-week extension, but Senate Democrats blocked it because it would not, among other things, renew expiring health insurance tax credits and roll back health care cuts enacted in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget package this summer.

The memo, which was first reported by Politico, is a clear warning shot to Senate Democrats as that chamber prepares to return to session on Monday, with less than 48 hours before a partial shutdown would begin. More

20 Comments on WH Orders Permanent Layoffs If Government Shuts Down October 1st

  1. it doesn’t matter, the MEDIA scum will blame Republicans and sheep will hear it on Tik Tok and blame Republicans and it will be there fault for the 65% of Americans without functioning brains……been here done that too many times now….

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  2. I think the Dems will shut it down. He’s beaten them bloody. They’re backs are against the wall. Time to pull the pin on the Holy Hand Grenade. Dem leader ship is sharp as a marble.

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  3. I sure looks like the Dem ‘leadership’ didn’t see this coming, which makes them even stupider than I had imagined. Those mouth-breathers are so dumb I’m surprised they haven’t drowned in a rainstorm by looking up to see what’s hitting them on the head.

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