The Trump administration is doubling the threat of dismissing thousands of federal employees if the Congress does not end the government’s closure but has not yet delivered the last enthusiasm.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday night that he was “happening now.” But in a media briefing on Monday, White House reporter Karoline Leavitt said that Trump has actually mentioned hundreds of thousands of federal employees who have been broken since they were closed on October 1.
Leavitt said, “Millions of US federal workers are undergoing tremendous financial stress, and as a result, I am curious about how to pay a bill and take care of their families.
LEAVITT said last week that “thousands of dismissal” were imminent, and the Republican lawmakers told Republican lawmakers that the Republican lawmakers would be dismissed in the future.
On Monday, Leavitt said OMB said, “Unfortunately, if this shutdown continues, we are continuing to cooperate with the institution for the person who will be fired.”
On Monday afternoon, the Senate failed to pass the claim of financing the stop gap funds introduced by two. democrats and Republican.
“We don’t want to see people fired. But unfortunately, if this shutdown continues, dismissal will be unfortunate,” she added.
Representative union public official The federal judge asked the Trump administration to preemptively block the mass layoffs during closing.
Despite the threat of more mass layoffs, an agency is doing the opposite. Restore hundreds of employees who were previously dismissed and maintain their duties during the termination.
On Monday, the General Service Management Bureau began to work to manage the real estate portfolio throughout the government after withdrawing the reduction notice provided a few months ago. Some GSA employees have not prevented the plan to work again due to the closure of the federal news network, and many people will continue to work and pay over time.
GSA staff said last month that GSA plans to withdraw the RIF of about 400 public building service employees.
An industry official said that about 75%of PBS employees who received a recovery option on the federal news network agreed to come back to work again. The GSA spokesman mentioned the question to the OMB.
GSA Updated emergency plan Request to exempt more than 3,000 public building service staff during closure -Most of the total PBS personnel. PBS employees make up the majority of employees who expect GSA to continue to work during the closure.
According to the latest emergency plan, about 64%of GSA employees are exempt from closing, because the company’s work is supported by carryover funds and non -application funds. GSA currently has a total of 10,700 employees.
PBS can continue to operate normal operations, such as paying for employees and covering costs due to the “corresponding” funds that can be carried over from fiscal year to the next year.
“GSA is a government’s property manager, so GSA employees are responsible for maintaining, protecting and preserving the property than many other institutions that are not responsible for property and asset management throughout the government.” “Excluding GSA employees are responsible for protecting life and/or federal property and providing the necessary assistance to other government agencies.”
PBS had more than 5,600 employees in September 2024, but it has been greatly reduced according to the Trump administration.
During the shutdown, the federal building is generally open to employees, but may not be disclosed to the public, and the construction contract of the federal ownership facilities paid as a carryover will continue. The agency is expected to pay the rent next month for the leased office space, but if the project is not yet before the end of the end, it cannot generally sign a new lease.
GSA’s work to sell and discard unused federal buildings will be suspended during closure. According to the Trump administration, the GSA aimed to offer about 50%of the real estate portfolio.
“In order to protect the federal property under the custody and control of the GSA and to provide important support for the activities of other federal agencies under the custody and control of the GSA, the role of the GSA as an aggregate of a large number of government assets, and the GSA must be subdivided by appropriate employees.
Anti -disassembly It prevents the institution from preventing mandatory funds while the parliamentary budget disappears. In most cases, however, federal staff are exempted or excluded during closure if they protect “human life or property protection”.
The Trump administration cited the protection of federal buildings as justification for deploying defense troops in cities such as Chicago and Portland.
Leavitt said, “The president wants to protect our federal buildings and assets, which is what he wants to do.
Former PBS Commissioner Norman Dong wrote January 2019 White Paper The closure that lasts for a few days will “relatively minor impact” on the federal lease, but long -term closure can hypothesized on the ability of the institution to pay lease payments to the entire office space. In this scenario, the federal government wrote, “We need to take unprecedented measures to fund the continuous rent obligations to avoid serious confusion and results.”
DONG said, “Most uncertainty over this shutdown on GSA’s lease portfolio focuses on how long the GSA does not raise funds.
According to the GSA’s emergency plan, the number of exemption employees will be reduced as the funds are exhausted, and in some cases, the exemption employee can be designated as “exceptions”, which will appear to continue to work, but no longer pays on time until the end of the end.
“In addition, depending on the termination period and the availability of the GSA, other activities may be stopped.
The GSA supervises more than 8,800 federal buildings, which occupy 355 million square feet.
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