The Trump admin IS HIRING BACK workers laid off from DOGE…..
Now?
Brinkmanship….
Trump/Republicans Don’t get what they want?
MORE CUTS AGAIN in workers!
Fuck the Democrats…..
Fuck the Government Workers….
Fuck America!….
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 on 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.
The move marks a significant break from how shutdowns have been handled in recent decades, when most furloughs were temporary and employees were brought back once Congress voted to reopen government and funding was restored. This time, OMB Director Russ Vought is using the threat of permanent job cuts as leverage, upping the ante in the standoff with Democrats in Congress over government spending.
“Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown,” OMB wrote in the memo. Agencies were told to submit their proposed RIF plans to OMB and to issue notices to employees even if they would otherwise be excepted or furloughed during a lapse in funding.
Programs that will continue regardless of a shutdown include Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, military operations, law enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and air traffic control, according to an OMB official granted anonymity to share information not yet public…..
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The memo appears to vindicate warnings issued by some Democrats — most prominently Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — during the last shutdown standoff in March. Schumer at the time moved to allow a GOP-written spending bill to pass, arguing that a shutdown would be a “gift”allowing Trump and his deputies “to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now.”
Schumer says he has since revised that view, arguing this month that the administration’s attacks on federal agencies “will get worse with or without [a shutdown], because Trump is lawless.”….
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Jeffries and Schumer have sought to health care the focus of the shutdown fight, especially with the insurance subsidies used by more than 20 million Americans set to expire at the end of the year. GOP leaders have expressed an openness to negotiating on an extension, but they have rejected entering into talks this month and have put forward a “clean” seven-week stopgap bill instead.
It’s not clear whether Senate Democrats are drawing the same red line on potential health care negotiations. Schumer recently sidestepped a question about whether a GOP commitment to work on the insurance subsidies and other health care issues would be enough to earn Democratic votes for a shutdown-averting punt.
Some progressive Democrats are publicly and privately fretting that Schumer and Senate Democrats will once again cave to pressure and vote to advance a GOP-led stopgap — as 10 Senate Democrats, including Schumer, did in March. Jeffries said he and Schumer would talk “at some point later on today.”
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said a symbolic vote or other toothless gesture would not suffice.
“Democrats need to put up a real fight against” the GOP bill, he wrote on X Wednesday, “not just put on a show then cave for crumbs.”…
Note….
IF Schumer BLINKS and capitulates?
He propably will lose his postion as Senate Democratic Minority Leader in the future….
More Threats….
“I’d be much more worried if I were a blue state. The president has a lot of discretionary power on what he declares is … essential,” said Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) when asked about a shutdown’s impact on his state. “We do not want a shutdown.”
For the first time in a while, Republicans believe they have the wind at their sails heading into a shutdown fight. The party has been largely united behind the seven-week continuing resolution (CR) push, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) heading the efforts.
They also have additional tools in their toolkit they appear ready and willing to wield if the government’s lights go dark — some of which have been used against them in the past.
A number of Republicans have cited the impact of the 2013 shutdown, which then-President Obama and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) used to pillory the GOP when conservatives were attempting to defund ObamaCare….
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