The EPA only has one day planned where most of the staff will be taking a mandatory day off with no pay -- that is May 24, the Friday before the Memorial Day holiday. None of the cuts are set in stone. Congress has already demonstrated how it can cure a sequester symptom, like a lack of meat and poultry inspectors, by voting to give agencies more money. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. When you visit our website, we store cookies on your browser to collect information.
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The furloughs could bolster the arguments of workers and lawmakers who oppose sequestration, tipping the scales against the automatic cuts. Or they could roll out with a whimper, further solidifying the cuts as a long-term fiscal reality for the Pentagon.
In other defense news, the Senate is beginning to focus on how the department will proceed in the next fiscal year. The updated budget is expected to contain an alternative spending plan for the next fiscal year, which takes into account sequestration and its impacts.
Many furloughed employees will miss one day every two weeks - the Federal Aviation Administration, for instance, plans on cutting its workforce by that amount. But if the heads of federal agencies are to be believed - and hyperbole is possible - Americans can expect longer waits in the TSA line, fewer commercial flights, a more porous border, fewer workplace inspections, less meat and poultry production, and a host of miserable consequences arising from furloughed TSA workers, air traffic controlers, border-patrol agents, and OSHA and FDA inspectors.
Again, it's not certain that these purported consequences will begin happening April 4. Agencies have developed their own plans for implementing sequester cuts, and the timing could be different where different parts of the federal government are concerned. If any agencies have graded out their sequester plans, counting on Obama and Congress to reach a deficit bargain within a few weeks of the sequestration era, the worst of the cuts could be delayed.
All rights reserved. By Chris Good February 26,
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