I never use the tick tock motif, but in this case it’s absolutely appropriate. In 5 more days Trump could wave his hand and say any job that has been furloughed due to the shutdown is now permanently vacated. Done. Fini.
Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy? In only five more days of the already-“longest government shutdown in history” (25 days and counting, as of today), a heretofore obscure threshold will be reached, enabling permanent layoffs of bureaucrats furloughed 30 days or more.
Don’t believe me that federal bureaucrats can be laid off? Well, in bureaucratese, a layoff is called a RIF – a Reduction in Force, and of course, it comes with a slew of civil service protections. But, if the guidelines are followed, bureaucrats can be laid off — as in no more job. It is all explained by Michael Roberts here (updated after the beginning of the partial shutdown):
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One reason Trump is holding off on declaring emergency powers. The shutdown is way more fun and sends the Deep State home.
They still get back pay for doing nothing, but they weren’t really doing anything productive at work either.
Ooh! Ooh! I’ll believe it when I see it, but it would be sweet if DJT were to swing a big axe when/if we hit 30 days.
Whacking off big chunks of the FBI would be good. And, I wonder if any of the jobs in the Dept. of Education are considered “essential”?
I’ve never been to DC but I hear the town is chock full of great big buildings full of bureaucrats.
The day before, Pelosi will bring a 6 billion dollar check to the white house.lol
Any federal job??
Then I say go for it, eliminate the Speaker of the House!
Shut it down. Article V Convention Of The States.
(But you knew I was going to say that.)
OUTSTANDING!
The wrong areas of the government are shutdown – nobody from HUD, EPA, DOE, AG, etc are affected
Can you imagine the whole EPA being fired? I cannot believe any job there is essential
Dear Donald: Please eliminate the useless TSA.
Get ready for SHTF.
I’ll die in ecstasy if Trump sacks them all. Could it possibly be true, a 25% Swamp drain in one day? Is this a dream?
Oh please oh please oh please!
Ohh! OOH! Does anyone know if those 30 or so Dems will *still* be in Puerto Rico in 5 days?!?
“…and they did nothing to save them, but party on…”
Yes! What a wonderful time to get rid of the useless TSA and let airline carriers resume transporting people, with minimum disruption. …..Lady in Red
A brilliant move it would be if Trump actually took advantage of this opportunity to get rid of a bunch of useless government fat.
And a Huge “holy crap we didn’t see that coming” from the left if it happens.
Take the slashed budget and pay it towards the wall.
I think Trump just found the giant drain plug in the swamp.
Finally- the end of job-lock!
I always get a laugh when they talk about “non-essential” government employees. If they are non-essential, why are they employees?
Get rid of the ATF and end the nfa
President Trump….Just do it !
There are 10s of thousands of “non-essential” federal workers.
Drain it now.
that’s racis
EPA, TSA, NEA, HUD, DOE.
Airports need to handle their own business. They’ll be quicker, tighter and better on security because THEIR own asses will be on the line.
Each state has its own EPA and NEA type stuff. Enough already. The whole fucking federal government is in triplicate as it is.
The UN has to go. It doesn’t have to bust up, but it cannot stay here.
That’s prime real estate right there. Water front!!!
GET OUT!!! lol
It would be nice to see gubmint employees fearful of layoffs, like the private workforce. Lets them see what the real world is like.
TSA employees would still be getting their paychecks if they had stayed employees of the airlines.
Since we have at least 800k “non-essential” workers I am sure many of them could be gone and we would not even notice. Well, except for the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the leftists.
Good thing Trump’s America will have plenty of REAL jobs for them!
SO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOND departments of:
– Ejumakayshun
– Energy
– HUD
– Commerce
– Labor
– HHS
– Homeland Insecurity
– and all the Obama tsars!!!
– and… Interior & Agriculture get combined! WOOT! 😎
That should save more than enough money… to build a WALL!!! 😀
How many government workers will he need to eliminate to pay for the wall?
Now that would take “WINING” to a whole new level of how cool was that.
now we know why lindsay graham is so hot to reopen the gov
We may decide tofly again if TSA baboons go.
Hope my buddy in the forestry department keeps his gig. He knows where on government land all the rock…gemstone thingys….minerals? Are?
Fug if I know. The point is, he knows where those hollow rocks with the crystals inside are. Hippies love that ish’.
Geodes?
With a $21 Trillion deficit, there should be NO nonessential government employees; we should only pay essential government empolyees
Best of all, Buh Bye Deep State employees.
Geodes?
Nah Nigga, I drive a Ford.
‘The UN has to go’. Best Trump legacy tribute to be demolition-ed.
“Essential” government employees is a HR term, not a statement of value. For example, the guy who buys artillery for the US Army is pretty darned important. But his job can wait for Monday. Or if there is a snow emergency, he doesn’t need to come into work. so he is classified as “non-essential”, even though the US Army definitely needs to buy artillery ammunition. But the guy who runs the snow plow definitely needs to come in, especially when it is snowing. So, when you say “fire all the non-essential employees” you are in favor of firing some pretty darned useful people.