Trump freezes federal hiring

[n2doc]

Source: Washington Post

President Trump issued executive orders Monday freezing federal hiring. The hiring freeze excludes national security employees.

A hiring freeze was included in the Trump presidential campaign’s “Contract with the American Voter.” It was the second of six measures “to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, D.C.” and part of his “100-day action plan to Make America Great Again.”

The plan excludes the “military, public safety, and public health.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/23/trump-freezes-federal-hiring/?utm_term=.a0f0b3cb1992

[yeoman6987]

1. There are a ton of federal workers who could retire tomorrow

I think he better be careful.

[2naSalit]

13. a amjor mistake...

the vast majority of NPS and USDAFS workers are seasonal temps. If the freeze affects that group, the parks and most camping areas will be closed due to lack of sufficient staff to protect the resources from the masses.

[Hekate]

15. Pft -- parks? Those can be repurposed, doncha know?

Mad King Donald

[2naSalit]

16. It also cancels my

summer job which is the majority of my income each year. Fun, fun, fun.

[Hekate]

17. Likewise, who pays for the firewatchers like DemoTex, who posts such gorgeous pix here?

Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave at the threat to the National Park system.

[christx30]

26. Well, with the lack of staff at energy regulatory

agencies, that might be the only safe source of power now.

[eggplant]

19. well, with attendance way down (as a result), we can close and sell them off, amirite? nt

[2naSalit]

22. Sounds like their plan since

flushing them with humans the past three summers didn't quash any desire to visit them didn't do it.

[Vinca]

2. We don't need no stinkin' air traffic controllers.

[bluevoter4life]

25. We don't meet the government's definition

Of "public safety" believe it or not. NATCA hasn't yet informed us how we will be affected.

[Javaman]

3. this won't end well. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

4. He has no idea the implications of what he is doing

if he did, he wouldn't do it

[Botany]

6. Our economy is going to go into the tank

The greater D.C. area is going to hurt bad.

[redwitch]

10. I think he got 4% of the vote in D.C.

So this is revenge and should please him bigly.

[hollowdweller]

11. I have friends in DC area Trump supporters

It's interesting they are in the service area, make way more than somebody in my state would make because all the money in DC and all the gov't employees who hire them. Yet they go on about gov't spending and stuff. Weird.

I worked for 30 years adjudicating Social Security Disability claims. When we had democrats in he office we were always allowed to hire more people, caseloads were lower and in general it was good.

When republicans were in office they usually would not let us hire so with attrition we'd have these huge spikes in caseloads. Also they would change the regs to deny more people and then would send all these cases back to us to be re adjudicated. Burying us in cases.

One thing I always knew. If a republican was elected it meant work more work!

[LeftInTX]

14. SS is so understaffed that it is pathetic

My son was on SSDI, then he started working. He told SS that he was working and told them to stop his checks. My son had been through several work trials previously and had accumulated his trial months. They didn't stop his checks, so after 2 months he calls them. They told him that they were so short staffed that they couldn't stop his checks because everything had to be processed. They told him to put the money aside as overpaid benefits. He started working in October 2015 and it took them almost a year to send him the letter informing that he was no longer disabled effective October 2015.

But my son is just one case. He had been there, done that before with overpayments and knew to put them aside. There are cases where recipients are surprised that they owe SS $50,000 and they haven't put the money aside. Those debts, for the most part will be forgiven. So, our treasury is being short changed because they SS is short staffed.

[hollowdweller]

18. When Obama came in

We were allowed to hire a ton of people. They said so many of our agencies employees were retirement age that they wanted to make sure we had enough once they retired.

The sad part was that was 2009. By the time I retired in 2015 we had lost a TON of those people. Salaries were so low and because of all the budget battles no raises that the people moved on. So I'm not sure how successful the plan was.

[TomCADem]

5. Redefining the Swamp to Mean Rank and File...

...not the millionaires and billionaires in his cabinet.

[bdamomma]

9. corporate d'etat..

[geek tragedy]

7. So they just farm out the work to contractors ... nt

[Freethinker65]

8. Shortsighted. Stupid. Totally expected

[Initech]

12. But... but... but... but... jobs!!!!

[underpants]

28. Yes this will have economic consequences he clearly doesn't understand

The money Fed Employees put into the economy (just like any other employee/consumer) are vital.

This is based on the belief that government workers don't do anything.

Really bad decision.

[packman]

20. All done to make the Fed. gov. look bad and incompetent

Then - what recourse is left but to privatize it?

Evil people making evil plans

[sarcasmo]

21. CDC gone, parks gone. Will he hire Ambassadors?

[GoCubsGo]

23. But, but, I thought he was going to be a "jobs creator."

Well, actually, I knew from the get-go that he's full of shit. This is just more evidence of that.

[MBS]

24. There are not strong enough words in the English language to express

the depth of my rage at the stupidity and wrong-headedness of these people.

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. A friend who works for the FDA is retiring on January 31.

She handed in her notice on November 9. Guess why? Several of her coworkers are retiring for the same reason. Guess Herr Drumpf doesn't think we need our food or drugs regulated.

[tavernier]

29. The problem with America is too many people working???

[Qanisqineq]

30. my husband is currently covering 3 positions

His and two where the people retired. He was told today that because of the hiring freeze, he will be covering those positions for the foreseeable future.

[marlakay]

31. Daughter told me her husband in military getting a big raise

I said I hope my taxes aren't going up for that especially since he plans to cut SS and medicare, which doesn't affect me for a few more years but its soon and I would like it to be there since I worked my buns off for many years for it.