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It's an even better deal if it gets torn up after a month. You get a one month paid vacation and then go back to work.
You’ve already resigned…
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> Is it a given there would be a budget impasse, if all institutions of power are held by Republicans? I’m not an expert on this topic, so please take these comments with a grain of salt: 1. The simplest way a budget impasse could start is with internal feuding within the Republican Party. Some Republicans are very aggressive deficit hawks all the time. Some Republicans are only “deficit hawks” when a Democrat is pre…
Also, the last House was wracked with all sorts of deadlock because the Republican majority was only 5 representatives, and having 5 splinter off was incredibly easy. The current House has an even smaller majority of 2 currently, so it's now infinitely more possible for a deadlock to happen.
Doubt it... You'd be a fool to think you'd actually get the money
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At least during his last term you had Republicans on both the state and federal levels who weren’t sycophants. They’ve all died, retired or are now kissing the ring.
> The buyout offer entitles federal employees to stop working more or less immediately and continue to be paid through Sept. 30. > The federal workforce's normal attrition rate is about 6% a year, meaning some of those who've taken the buyout may have been planning to leave government service anyway. Wow, talk about an amazing deal if you already happened to be planning on leaving...
8 months paid would be an insane deal for private industry layoffs. We all just get a sad email and some well wishes.
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I think the adminstration's plan to execute on this is basically garden leave. They tell the "retiring" employees to stop working, but keep them on the payroll so they keep getting paid. This administration has been playing a lot of games with "budgeted" vs. "delayed" vs. "actively being worked on" (or not). So this isn't really that different than the abrupt cancellations or delays or re-org'ing of funded and legisl…
That sounds illegal
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My personal and probably not unique prediction is that these people will be let go and not be paid - same thing he did with twitter.
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You’ve already resigned…
But that resignation was part of a larger deal. If the deal is thrown out, shouldn't the resignation be thrown out too?
We are getting into banana republic territory now with no rule of law.