How has sequestration affected the various federal agencies?
Federal News Radio provides the following information on it’s web site based on information available on August 22, 2013:
Agriculture Department. “Officials at the Agriculture Department now say the agency does not expect furloughs of USDA employees this year”
Commerce Department. “After initially planning for furloughs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce announced Friday, May 31, that furloughs at the agency would be cancelled.”
Customs and Border Protection. “The agency said it is now “reevaluating” the need for furloughs and the the planned elimination of administratively uncontrollable overtime, or AUO.”
Defense Department. “The Department of Defense cut the number of furlough days for its civilian employees from 11 days to six. For most of those DoD employees, their final day took place the first week of August.”
Education Department. “Education Department employees won’t deal with furloughs this year, according to a staff memo from Education Secretary Arne Duncan obtained by Education Week.”
Environmental Protection Agency. “Over two phases of furloughs, EPA employees were forced to take a total of 47 hours off. ”
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ” During Phase I of furloughs (April 22 to July 2) all 2,194 EEOC employees took five required furlough days. However, EEOC canceled round two of furloughs, which would have meant three more unpaid days off for feds at the agency.”
Federal Aviation Administration. “Congress approved a bill April 26 that allows the agency to use funding originally slated for airport improvement to avert the furlough of air traffic controllers.”
FBI. “On April 24, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Justice would not need to furlough employees during the current fiscal year. He said the department was able to avoid furloughs thanks to money it received from recently enacted legislation combined with a hiring freeze and cuts to contracting and other costs.”
General Accounting Office. “Under sequestration, GAO would be forced to forego its hiring plans for a third year in a row.
Government Printing Office. “GPO plans to implement freezes in a number of areas: hiring, overtime, bonuses, training, travel and nonessential maintenance. Employee furloughs would be a last resort …”
Housing and Urban Development. “On Aug. 9, the Department of Housing and Urban Developmentcanceled its final two furlough days on Aug. 16 and 30.”
Interior Department. “After taking three furlough days, the National Park Service announced May 24 that it was canceling the remaining furlough days for U.S. Park Police employees.”
Justice Department. ” On April 24, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Justice would not need to furlough employees during the current fiscal year. ”
NASA. “NASA does not plan to resort furloughs in the short term, a NASA spokesman told Federal News Radio. To comply with the budget cuts, NASA has reduced travel and conference attendance and has reviewed spending on education and public-outreach activities.”
You get the idea.
Go to the website to see other government agencies.
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Brutus
elpasospeak 
Political theatre, but most people figured that out.
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I say again: government administrators and government employees in general are now the privileged class. The so-called pain they endured for a few days doesn’t begin to compare to the pain of truly unemployed citizens.
Government employees act like a few days or weeks of furlough are a hardship, yet there are millions of extraordinary — not ordinary — hard-working citizens who have been unemployed for months or years. Many others have had to take pay cuts or have had their healthcare eliminated altogether.
Government employees get 8-5 workdays, overtime pay, every holiday, great healthcare and benefits, nice pensions. All at taxpayer expense. The higher level government employees and elected officials simply have an even more absurd view of what they deserve. None of them generate revenue and none of them know what it’s like to have to “make a payroll”. Because we are “dependent” on them for certain services, they also feel no obligation to treat “customers” with respect and provide good customer service.
The continued spending you reference is just them continuing to take as much money as they can while it’s there.
They seem themselves as special and privileged and they definitely do not appreciate what we are working so hard to provide to them.
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