Posted on 08/07/2017 1:05:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
It’s easy to understand if some of you are scoffing at that number and failing to be impressed. After all, there are just shy of 200K federal employees in the District of Columbia (and that represents less than 20% of the total nationally.) Is a reduction of 11,000 really all that significant?
Yes, it really is. That’s particularly true if you compare Trump’s performance thus far to his recent predecessors. Over the past two years there were a total of 50K federal workers added to the previous staffing levels in 2015 and 2016. Barack Obama added 60K in his first six months in office and George W. Bush inflated the rolls by 36K during the same period of his first term. This shrinkage is fairly remarkable.
I’ve disagreed with President Trump on several issues over the past six months, particularly on foreign policy, but let’s give the man credit where credit is due. He promised to cut back on the bloated federal workforce and thus far he’s making good on his word.
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That’s a 1.1% cut.
11,000 / 1,000,000
That would be noticeable for a large company.
Trump really needs a high ranking hatchet man with direct Presidential authority to be assigned to every Federal agency. They report to the President directly and like it or not the Cabinet officer or Director of that Agency cannot veto their decisions to fire people. Only way to disinfect the swamp.
Any reduction in government employment is a good thing
Revoke all work-at-home privileges.
Assign all Northern Virginia residents to offices in
Hagerstown, Maryland (and vice-versa)
You’ll have a 40% reduction in no time.
It’s a start but has a long way to go. Especially drain the islamonazi swamp out of state dept, military, intelligence, security agencies as Job One. Then continue
>Revoke all work-at-home privileges.
>Assign all Northern Virginia residents to offices in
Hagerstown, Maryland (and vice-versa)
>You’ll have a 40% reduction in no time.
I’d suggest Alaska.
A start. Why not keep the federal hiring freeze in effect?
This is a good start and a significant policy shift. Thankfully the media are too stupid to report anything factual and this will fly under the radar screen as they can’t do anything investigative and don’t understand facts and figures.
Better still, ask for, and receive in short order, new staffing plans from each and every Federal Agency, with each plan having inviolate staffing reduction goals. Then hold each Cabinet Officer or Agency Director personally accountable for meeting those staffing reduction goals. And put substantial emphasis on “employees” who are also union reps.
All they need to do is fire all those who surf the net for pron. Instant 25% reduction.
I thought he would begin his presidency by ordering a 10% reduction in force by all agencies excepting those in uniform and in emergency services. Even the Pentagon needs a RIF among the civilian workforce. He might have given them two years to effect the reduction.
Is the federal government subject to the WARN Act, where they must notify of layoffs over 50 people?
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