In addition the agents generally receive 10 hours of AUO “administavive uncontrolled overtime” a week. The administration is cutting back on the overtime and looking to eliminate it. That will be 10 hours times 21,000 fewer hours the border is patrolled each week.
Since AUO equals 25% of an agents pay and is counted in his retirement. Look for a mass exodus of any agent eligible to retire and the rest will be looking for somewhere else to go.
The furloughs don’t kick in until next month. The unions response to the AUO cut was to threaten to sue if agents in sister agencies got AUO.