What is happening is awful, but it may help to be clear- the only employees that have been fired are either probationary or on a temporary term limited appointment that was ended early. Both of these categories have very limited employment protections. I'm fairly certain that no employee past probation on a permanent career employment has been fired...yet. |
No one placed on admin leave has been fired yet? Seems a lot of FBI agents have been summarily fired as well. |
I'm speaking specifically of the CFPB. Only people fired were probationary or temporary. For now. |
Yet. |
What about the USAID employees? |
She was only talking about CFPB. |
A 1,000+ people at the VA.
https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-dismisses-more-than-1000-employees/ |
Even if they are only probationary, they still did a job that now will not be done and the ripple effect will seep into fed workers and in every town in the US. The job loss is traumatic but the loss of services, protections, people who you didn’t have to even worry about who were doing their jobs……. That’s government service. |
Every town? You're being dramatic. |
80% of federal employees work outside DC. Yes, every town. Accusing people of being dramatic is grade school trolling, btw. You need to up your game. |
Is it better if I say most towns? You really don’t understand the scope of federal assistance. |
The people I know there are expecting a large percentage of the remaining workforce to be fired today or tomorrow. |
There was an emergency filing last night to try and stop it. But yeah, the rumor is it will happen this morning. |
If the press release is true it seems that a decent a count of the probationary employees (43K out of 220K) are at the VA and supposedly over 1K were terminated. Of course over 1K could be anything up to 43K but normally that would mean between 1 and 2K. |
Admin leave with pay for the majority |