The Office of Management and Budget will begin eliminating thousands of civilian positions across the federal government, fulfilling the Trump administration’s plan to use the ongoing government shutdown as a vehicle for mass layoffs.
OMB Director Russ Vought announced Friday in an abrupt social media post that the office has started issuing Reduction in Force notices to an unspecified number of federal employees currently on unpaid leave.
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security from ending a union deal with Transportation Safety Administration workers.
The American Federation of Government Employees argued in its lawsuit that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem doesn’t have the power to end a seven-year contract that is already authorized, accusing her of targeting the union after it filed multiple lawsuits on behalf of government workers, The Hill news outlet reported.
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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically cut government and clean out inefficiencies, but he faces an entrenched power in Washington, D.C. that may throw a wrench in his plans: federal government public employee unions.
“For president-elect Trump to succeed at making the federal bureaucracy more efficient and accountable to the American people, he’ll have to once again do battle with federal unions,” Max Nelsen, a labor policy expert at the Freedom Foundation, told The Center Square.
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