An estimated 50,000 federal employees had accepted a deferred-resignation package offered by the Trump administration before a judge paused a Feb. 6 deadline after a legal challenge from unions, according to CNN.
The proposal would allow those workers to continue getting paid through September and is part of sweeping efforts from the Republican administration to shrink the federal workforce.
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The Trump administration has also ordered federal employees to return to in-person work, though some agencies say there may no longer be room to accept them all back full time.
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport is among the affected federal employers, with an estimated 2,500 civilian employees and thousands more military personnel.
Let’s be clear here. He’s trying to reduce the workforce (among many other things, like cuts in Medicare, etc., etc.) because his tax cuts he gave the super rich back in 2018 sunset this year. Because they were passed by reconciliation and not by an actual budget these tax cuts for the super rich to get dedications for yachts and other billionaire toys he must now find $4T in savings elsewhere to cover the loss he’s created. Don’t be fooled. We need to flip the house in the special elections on April 1 to stop him in his tracks. It was perfectly fine for him to take back the tax cuts working folks got year after year. Every penny of those cuts were reduced every year up to 2025. That’s why your taxes when up after the cuts every year to a level where they were back in 2017. Haven’t you noticed he hasn’t put on thing forward to lower your taxes but did give a nice little speech to his super rich buddies that when he is reelected he would work hard to give them tax cuts?
Even if we let all tax cuts expire, we’d still need to cut federal spending and by extension, the workforce. The deficit is just too big. But yes, keeping Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will increase urgency to shrink federal spending.
The question is what’s worse, further borrowing at ever higher interest rates, or the spending he’s likely to cut.