
Labour union members hold placards on the day of a rally in support of federal workers during a rush hour protest outside the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station in Washington on March 24. — Reuters
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WASHINGTON: The US government has been facing the biggest loss of government employees in nearly 80 80 years as more than 1.5 million employees leave the US government’s payroll this week after accepting the purchase of the largest government employees in about 80 years.
Unions and experts have warned that large -scale departure from civil service will eliminate important experience and how to eliminate information, making it difficult for agencies to provide basic services to the public.
Government resignations began on Tuesday for workers who selected a delayed exit program that kept them on salary during September. Purchase is the basis for pressure to shrink President Donald Trump’s federal workforce, and financial privileges have been threatened with dismissal for those who dismiss the risk of dismissing.
According to the Federal Government’s HR office, many months ago, they left their agencies, and are effectively on salary leave.
Don Moian, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, said that the biggest impact of this week’s emergence would be the mental drainage of many experienced government employees, saying it would be difficult to overthrow the capabilities.
“It takes many years to promote deep information and skills to provide government programs that these people walk,” said Moinhan.
According to an interview with a dozen current and former government employees and union officials, it is difficult for many agencies to perform their work and serve the American people due to the loss of skills.
According to Reuters talks, purchases have badly affected a number of government activities, including weather forecasts, food safety, health programs and space plans.
In the National Weather Service, about 200 people purchased, causing the loss of technical staff that maintains forecasting equipment and many experienced meteorological meteorities.
“This has widened the offices across the country,” said Tom Fahi, the legislative director of the National Weather Service Employees Organization.
Jasmine Blackwell, a spokesman for the National Maritime and Environment Administration, monitoring climate services, said that jobs are being offered as needed “to ensure the safety of Americans and the dollar responsible for taxpayers.
Former Democratic President Bill Clinton has recorded two records of the post -World War II to reduce government jobs, but this is more than eight years of his two -term presidency. Clinton oversees a reduction of more than 430,000 or about 20 % in the federal manpower.
At the same time, however, a red -hot economy and Tech Boom created more than 22 million private sector jobs during Clinton’s tenure, and their federal manpower reduction has left no clear impressions on the job market as a whole.
NASA Brain drain
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees made two purchases offered the Trump administration offered in January and April, said Matt Bugs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.
“The agency is losing some of the most brilliant engineers and aeronic scientists in the world, and is not being replaced,” Bugs said.
NASA spokesman, Shrill Warner, said the agency is looking for a “golden age” of search and innovation, including the moon and Mars.
“The agency will continue to evaluate the types of skills and characters needed to meet our priorities,” he said.
The Republican, and his billionaire former adviser Elon Musk, who was taken by 154,000 workers, was part of a wider purchase pressure, which argued that the federal manpower had become huge and very inactive. Opposition Democrats say deductions are blinding.
According to recently available data, the US government spent $ 9359 billion on the salaries and benefits of civilian employees in the budget year of 2023.
Its human resource chief said in August that the Trump administration by the end of this year, by the end of this year, by the end of this year, by combining shopping, firing and other privileges for the Trump administration, the Trump administration would likely eliminate 300,000 workers.
The purchase costs will be saving $ 28 billion annually, said McCloren Pinover, a spokesman for the Office of the Office of the Federal Human Resources, said. Reuters could not freely confirm whether the figure was correct or not.
“The delayed resignation program provided incredible relief to US taxpayers,” Panor said.
According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, the emission of many workers at the same time is unlikely to affect the national unemployment rate at the same time, because according to the federal manpower, the federal work force is less than 1.5 % in all payroll jobs.
Purchases take toll on precision agencies
In the Agricultural Agriculture Department of Agriculture, about 1,200 employees offered resignation, which was by about 17 % of the agency’s staff.
One of them was a scientist who mastered fungal toxins in grain lifts, which helps farmers and grain processors assess whether the crops have been polluted, the president of the US Federation of Government Employees, Ethan Roberts, said.
Roberts said that without a scientist’s most expert knowledge, there is no one to advance this task. According to the World Health Organization, contaminated grains can kill people and livestock seriously ill or even kill.
The USDA spokesman said that despite the departure of more than 15,000 workers through resignation programs, the agency will maintain all its important tasks.
Purchases have also suffered a loss on health agencies, including diseases and prevention centers and food and drug administration.
Secretary for Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in March that the department would cut off 10,000 employees through a combination of purchase and purchase. He said that the FDA would include 3,500 and 2,400 in the CDC.
A federal employee, who was approved anonymous for fear of retaliation, said the FDA is struggling to update its national Youth Tobacco survey, which is collecting US and high -school data from the US -based middle and high school students using the CDC’s tobacco prevention and control unit.
HHS spokesman, Andrew G Nixon, said the “brain drain” suggestions were brought to the wrong place and the CDC and FDA are deeply determined to prevent and control tobacco.