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Posted on 01/23/2017 1:34:32 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump is backtracking on campaign pledges to create American jobs and cut wasteful government spending by issuing an executive order to freeze federal employee hiring across the country, which will result in more work being outsourced to more expensive contractors, the American Federation of Government Employees said today.
“President Trump’s action will disrupt government programs and services that benefit everyone and actually increase taxpayer costs by forcing agencies to hire more expensive contractors to do work that civilian government employees are already doing for far less,” AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. said.
More than 85 percent of federal employees live and work outside the nation’s capital, so a hiring freeze targeting civilian workers will be felt in cities and towns across the country.
The number of federal employees has been frozen at about 2 million for the past 50 years, since John F. Kennedy was president. Meanwhile, the number of contractors employed by the government has grown to at least twice the number of full-time federal employees, and trillions of dollars have been wasted on service contracts and mismanaged weapons systems.
“Numerous studies have shown that contractors are two to three times more costly than each federal employee they replace,” Cox said. “President Trump’s federal hiring freeze will result in more government waste as agencies are forced to hire high-priced contractors to do the work that federal employees can and should be doing.”
President Trump’s executive order excludes employees working on national security and defense issues, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of the current federal workforce. That means the hiring freeze will disproportionately affect domestic agencies and programs, many of which have already endured severe budget cuts this decade.
“This hiring freeze will mean longer lines at Social Security offices, fewer workplace safety inspections, less oversight of environmental polluters, and greater risk to our nation’s food supply and clean water systems,” Cox said.
“All Americans should be outraged that President Trump is gutting federal programs and funneling their taxpayer dollars into the hands of less-regulated private companies who answer to their corporate shareholders and not the American people,” Cox said.
blah,blah,blah,more fake news from the largest Federal Employee Union.
I thought most of them planned to quit anyway???
That’s a good one. I’d say federal union workers are all in all the laziest and the worst.
Just look at any DOT work site. YOu see far too many guys there, and the delays in getting work done tremendous.
I am quite sure the private sectors can do it cheaper and quicker and better.
This is news?
““President Trump’s federal hiring freeze will result in more government waste as agencies are forced to hire high-priced contractors to do the work that federal employees can and should be doing.”
So why the hell are you people NOT already doing the work to the point where you expect more people to be hired?!?
I’d suggest you bust ass or else you will be next!
Of course, we can expect objective analysis from the AFGE.
Depends on which agencies! Good to freeze than have automatic hiring! Time D.C. Experienced what we have in the hinterlands of the US!
““All Americans should be outraged that President Trump is gutting federal programs and funneling their taxpayer dollars into the hands of less-regulated private companies who answer to their corporate shareholders and not the American people,” Cox said.”
Federal workers answer to the American people? Who knew?
They’re going to have a hard time convincing me of that.
A stop on spending money will hurt Americans......pfft! Only union leaders in America.
Really? Union bosses are upset because their workers won’t be able to find work now that their beloved Democrats moved all the factories out and illegal immigrants in?
AAAHHHHaaaaaaa[gassssp]hehehe!!
If the work can be outsourced, why can't it be privatized? Why can't it be given back to the states to provide?
-PJ
That is an absolute lie. Not only the freeze but the RIF will save taxpayers BILLIONS !!!Americans will be liberated not “hurt” . We are draining this swamp and you parasites need to suck it up buttercup. Get real jobs at real wages not bloated over paid jobs for the politically correct.
“President Obama will set a record for the size of the basic federal workforce, leaving office with more than 1.4 million people collecting government salaries in the civilian agencies in 2017, according to the budget he delivered to Congress on Tuesday.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/9/federal-workers-hit-record-number-but-growth-slows/
Anything else is just more liberal lies....
Ok, I think I get it ... in bizarro world:
“Trumps’s federal hiring freeze breaks his campaign promise of creating more jobs.”
Contractor jobs may be up
They hire by the project, they hire by skill, they hire only what they need when they need it, and the government doesn’t have these people around virtually unfireable for the next 30 years
What is that? Looks like hippos lounging on top of each other.
Boy, you can read self serving all over this.
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