Customs and Border Protection avoids sequester furloughs

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Source: Washington Post

Congress has approved a plan to avoid furloughs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees in fiscal 2013, according to a Wednesday statement by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

CBP also will continue to pay for “administratively uncontrollable overtime,” which applies to Border Patrol agents when they work unscheduled extra hours to fulfill their duties, according to the announcement.

The agency had initially planned to furlough its employees for up to 14 days and eliminate unscheduled overtime for Border Patrol agents in an effort to trim costs under the government-wide spending cuts known as the sequester.

To avoid that fate, Homeland Security asked its House and Senate appropriators to allow a transfer of $11.3 million to CBP’s salaries and expenses account from other spending categories.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/customs-and-border-protection-avoids-sequester-furloughs/2013/06/19/96845588-d92b-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html

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1. they are much too busy

to take cuts.
Their helicopter circled above three of us who were watching and photographing an eaglet, and parents in their nest yesterday. Maybe we looked like we swam in from Canada or something. They did get a good look at us though.
Homeland Security = Fully funded boondoggle and corporate handout.