Good News If True: 100K Government Employees To Resign Tuesday

Anyone else hoping that the UK Guardian is correct?

US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts

The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday, with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.

With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown, the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.

Workers preparing to leave government as part of the resignation program – one of several pillars of Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce – have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.

“Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,” a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. “That’s why I left.”

I’m sure there are plenty of people in the federal government who are good people, just there to do their job, who want to help American citizens, to be good public servants. I’m also sure there are lots who love the money, the benefits, the ability to enforce their politics on Americans whether the citizens want that or not.

The total resignation program is set to cost $14.8bn, with 200,000 workers paid their full salary and benefits while on administrative leave for up to eight months, according to a Senate Democrats’ report in July.

Trump officials argue this outlay is worth it. The Office of Personnel Management claimed the one-time costs lower longer-term spending by the federal government. It also criticized job protections of federal civil servants, claiming the government should have a “modern, at-will employment framework like most employers”.

I’m also sure that in most cases the work of the federal government will continue on. There are way too many who are unnecessary, who are redundant, who are just floating through while some other people are actually working. This gives the extras time to be nags and not actually do the mission as established by the Constitution and the Congress, but, their own missions. Those who are left should be shifted to critical areas.