[COBOL2Java]

Nope, not yet. Let the shutdown last a full thirty days and then start wholesale RIF.

Yep.

RIF = governmentese for "Layoff" - and after 30 days of a shutdown, it CAN be done.

Reduction in Force

[reagandemocrat]

See this awesome chart from Slate!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slate_labs/2013/10/federal_government_shutdown_agencies_with_the_most_furloughs.html

[Flaming Conservative]

Yes, an RIF can be done, but I think democrats are counting on that, so the sob stories will escalate. And even though it’s THEIR fault, every news agency is going to lay it at the feet of President Trump, and though most of America knows the truth, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and boy on boy, the democrats know how to squeak!
IOW, President Trump is probably going to have to declare a national emergency, or get much more serious political blowback.