Interior chief wants to shed 4,000 employees in department shake-up

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Interior chief wants to shed 4,000 employees in department shake-up

By Lisa Rein June 21 at 4:18 PM

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told lawmakers Wednesday that he plans to shrink his department’s sprawling workforce by 4,000 employees — about 8 percent of the full-time staff — as part of budget cuts to downsize the government’s largest public lands agency.

Zinke, testifying before a Senate panel on the White House’s proposed budget for the Department of the Interior for fiscal 2018, said he would rely on a combination of attrition, reassignments and buyouts to make the cuts. Depending on how fast and effective those strategies are, the department “will determine the need for further action to reduce staffing,” he said in prepared testimony, a reference to possible layoffs.

In back-to-back hearings Tuesday and Wednesday in which he defended the White House’s plan to slash his department’s budget by 13.4 percent, Zinke offered no additional details on whether the cuts will be concentrated in some offices or spread across Interior’s nine agencies.

But 1,000 jobs would be lost at the Bureau of Land Management — which manages hundreds of wilderness areas, two dozen national monuments and other protected lands in addition to issuing leases for livestock grazing and oil and gas extraction — according to an email its acting director sent to employees last Friday.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. They want to eliminate govt period. Full on total destruction and since

dems are gonna demand pure candidates, they are gonna get to do it.

[liberal N proud]

2. republicans are finally going to achieve their ultimate goal, kill the government

The very government they run.

So once they kill the federal government, does congress disband? Does the office of President cease to exist? What purpose would they serve if not to run the government?