While we go to work to PAY the GOVERMENT?
Trump is giving OUR money to those to NOT work….
There are serious questions about if this whole DOGE cuts in the Government workforce has actually has ‘saved’ a nickel….
Makes sense, eh?
The buyouts have rapidly sped up the process of slashing the federal workforce at an unprecedented rate, the officials said. But critics have argued the administration’s tactics of using buyouts and administrative leave have been wasteful because the public is paying tens of thousands of employees not to work for months.
Officials could not say how much the government is spending on salaries for employees who are resigning. The timing of buyouts has varied by agency, employees remain on their agencies’ payrolls as long as they are on leave and some workers got additional payments through other retirement programs, as well. The officials also could not say how much they expect the cuts will save in payroll costs in the long term….
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Meanwhile, the government has spent about the same amount of money this year as it did last year to this point. Daily Treasury statements, which show the government’s ongoing expenses, are slightly higher now than last year. Expenditures on federal salaries are up about 5 percent this year compared to last year, according to federal spending trackers kept by the nonpartisan Brookings Institution and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Exactly how much the various buyouts and leave programs are costing is still unclear.
Blumenthal’s investigators estimated that the government has spent $14.7 billion paying workers who took buyouts, but the figure is based on multiplying the average federal salary against a rough estimate of 200,000 employees who left.
The report also calculated that the government has spent another $6.1 billion paying workers who were placed on leave during litigation over attempts to fire them, and $611 million for workers at the Education Department, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, USAID and U.S. Agency for Global Media, which have also seen prolonged legal battles over plans to dramatically shrink or shutter these agencies…
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“I will sometimes wake up and say, ‘Why do I get out of bed today?’” she said.
But the paychecks kept coming, and her federal health insurance remains in effect. Her annual salary is more than $130,000, which means the government has so far paid her more than $65,000 not to work. She’s also racked up another three weeks or so of vacation since her last day of work….
Note….
The number of US Government civilian workers has been around 3 Million for decades…
This IS ANOTHER example of Trump & Co NOT knowing WTF they are doing and doing it ANYWAYS while his idiot Congress and Supreme’s stand by ….