WASHINGTON ― At least 20,000 federal employees have accepted the buyout offer President Donald Trump made to the entire federal workforce before Thursday’s deadline, a White House official said Tuesday.
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They were going to retire anyway? Now they do not have to show up to the Show.
No work will get done which makes several parties happy.
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I still wonder how this is going to work. Even members of the GOP admit that this isn’t legal - that no funds have been approved to pay for it.
If one Admin can change the compensation of federal workers without Congressional approval, what keeps a future admin from arbitrarily deciding to pay federal workers twice as much?
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I don’t think they are going to see a dime. It’s all a big scam and the only ones that would take it would have to be in a cult.
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The Michigan state AG, yesterday, was warning that some of the incentives in that proposal are not guaranteed.
You don’t need to appropriate any money, if you have no intention of paying it.
Steve
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Or, just send money via the payment system under their control. Create their own unlimited “funny money” printing press.
We could just give them RSU’s in DJT.
U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole, in a written order, said federal employees unions that sued to stop the program lacked standing to bring their challenge and that his court does not have jurisdiction to hear their complaint…
More than 60,000 workers had acccepted the buyouts as of late last week, representing about 2.6% of the federal workforce…
DB2
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The House Budget removes the debt ceiling. In other words neither party will need to raise taxes.
Color me cynical
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Only if they choose to NOT pay the interest on the increased debt. Issue more debt to pay the additional interest? Budget? What budget? It will come to a stop when US debt becomes unsellable at any interest rate.
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TI calls the debt and the interest in part fraudulent.