Federal Employees, how ya'll feeling?
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The God Poster
LWO representa
Yeah you can file but you’ll get an overpayment. Can’t get unemployment for the same period you are receiving income from the employer(back pay)
Technically furloughed are still employees as no separation has been made
I fear you maybe right.
Yeah i get to keep my leave.
I work for a non-profit but we work very close with State Dept and luckily a good chunk of our grants survived the foreign assistance review/termination spree in February. So the last few months I’ve been working closely with my colleagues at State on restarting the projects.
We had our biweekly call on Wednesday for one of our projects (Day 1 of Shutdown) and we were informed who was getting furloughed and who would be working as essential.
One of them who was furloughed walked down the street and met with me (and my team including our boss) in person on his way home. Didn’t sound like anyone was scared of more RIFs.
We had our biweekly call on Wednesday for one of our projects (Day 1 of Shutdown) and we were informed who was getting furloughed and who would be working as essential.
One of them who was furloughed walked down the street and met with me (and my team including our boss) in person on his way home. Didn’t sound like anyone was scared of more RIFs.
@Coco Loco
I think it’ll be a two week shutdown.
Mike Johnson will need to get the House of Rep back in session at some point.
I do think there’ll be 5 more Senate Dems who do cave once they get a promise from John Thune on the Obamacare premium tax credit cliff.
At this point though, the House and Senate need to pass new appropriation bills. The continuing resolutions are spending levels baked in from the Biden administration. But there’s no mechanisms for making sure the money that’s appropriated is apportioned to be spent in a given time.
I was reading the House appropriation for the State Department. It’s a 20% cut overall which is better than Trump/Vought’s reduction of 80%.
What I found interesting though was the GOP majority put in a provision requiring funds to be apportioned within 60 days. That would be a mechanism to prevent or limit impoundment by OMB. The continuing resolutions don’t have this. CRs actually remove timing requirements for apportionments, giving OMB more flexibility!
Esp since Russell Vought has discussed using “pocket rescissions” (where spending expires before agencies can allocate it by holding funds until the end of the fiscal year). A 60-day apportionment requirement would directly counteract this tactic. So that tells me that Hill Republicans are quietly getting irritated by his unilateral freezing of things they want to continue.
Yagirlcheatinonus
Icon Poster
I’m still working OT every week
you also accrue leave as long as the shutdown lasts.
I already got leave scheduled this month too. I maybe out most of this month.
lurker emeritus
low quantity poster
IRS is fully funded through tuesday
we’ll see what happens after that
they seem to be flirting with the continued use of IRA funding to keep paying some or all of us
whether that’s legal or not obviously doesn’t matter to some of these people
we’ll see what happens after that
they seem to be flirting with the continued use of IRA funding to keep paying some or all of us
whether that’s legal or not obviously doesn’t matter to some of these people
It's been pointed out that Voight makes decisions on what's essential DOD and DOJ is gucci Federal reserve gucci. Maybe enforcement arm of IRS who knows hard to get people to get mad if revenuers get laid off.