DOGE Day One - They close your agency — what do you do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get your resume and all your federal job paperwork in order and HOME.
Make list of contacts and get it HOME.
Line up references.
Take home really important personal items you don't want languishing in a locked office building.

They don't have to abolish an agency.
Zeroing out its appropriation works nicely. All they need are the votes and R control both houses.
So if there were an appropriation for this FY you would be funded thru September.
If there is just a CR then after it runs out you are screwed unless your agency is in a new one.
This happened. The authorizing legislation for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment still stands. But no appropriation in 1995 so we all were jobless 9 /30/94. Had warning that spring.

If go the no appropriation route, do essential workers still have to work to avoid being considered AWOL?

Appropriations run out on a known date. You would have communication from your agency before this happened. Just like with past lapses in appropriations, you would get a letter indicating whether you are required to work while the funding situation resolves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get your resume and all your federal job paperwork in order and HOME.
Make list of contacts and get it HOME.
Line up references.
Take home really important personal items you don't want languishing in a locked office building.

They don't have to abolish an agency.
Zeroing out its appropriation works nicely. All they need are the votes and R control both houses.
So if there were an appropriation for this FY you would be funded thru September.
If there is just a CR then after it runs out you are screwed unless your agency is in a new one.
This happened. The authorizing legislation for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment still stands. But no appropriation in 1995 so we all were jobless 9 /30/94. Had warning that spring.

Do you have access to your eOPF file after you are terminated?