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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens if there is a large percentage (50% or more) who take the federal buy out? All of those jobs just cease to exist? No work gets done at the federal level? Or is everything just optics and the work gets moved to federal contractor companies? That way Trump can say he reduced the federal workforce by 50% and his base is too stupid to realize all the work actually went to federal contractors. [/quote]

1. Few will take it, for a number of reasons.
2. Contractors can't do the work. In my experience only 25 percent of contractors do quality work, and the price for contractors is anywhere from 150 percent to 400 percent more than doing the work in-house. 
3. Contractor work isn't free from federal employees. A contract needs project managers and other feds monitoring the work. 
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The contractor side has 3 times the number of people and 4 time the cost vs the federal employees. They are trying to cut that by more than 1/2. So they are not going to replace anyone with contractors.

The problem is they are taking a business approach where employees are large part of the costs. In government the federal employees are not a large part of the budget. The biggest costs are the funds the federal government spends, transfers or writes checks to people. [/quote]

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