President Trump issued an executive order Monday freezing federal hiring. The hiring freeze excludes national security employees.
A hiring freeze was included in the Trump presidential campaign’s “Contract with the American Voter.” It was the second of six measures “to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, D.C.” and part of his “100-day action plan to Make America Great Again.”
The plan excludes the “military, public safety, and public health.”
News of the executive order drew immediate fire from the largest federal employee union.
“President Trump’s action will disrupt government programs and services that benefit everyone and actually increase taxpayer costs by forcing agencies to hire more expensive contractors to do work that civilian government employees are already doing for far less,” said American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox Sr. “This hiring freeze will mean longer lines at Social Security offices, fewer workplace safety inspections, less oversight of environmental polluters, and greater risk to our nation’s food supply and clean water systems.”
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ReplyDeletepublic employee unions
they gotta go
"and actually increase taxpayer costs by forcing agencies to hire more expensive contractors to do work that civilian government employees are already doing for far less"
ReplyDeleteI will confess, there is some truth to this. Private sector always has a higher salary for the same service. This does not negate the fact that there is much gov't fat that needs to be trimmed
Wrong!! My sister work for the federal government as secretary. Salery 78k with vacation, holidays, sick leave and personal days she is off for 2 1/2 months in a year!! It use to be the case but not anymore!!
Delete3:24 - we could get rid of 30% of the government workers tomorrow and be more efficient the next day! That 30% is unqualified, incapable, and unwilling to learn! Most of them got their current positions due to knowing someone in the hiring process!
ReplyDeleteWell, Trumps new hotel in DC only lost $1.1M in 2 mos while USPS lost over $5B. That goes against the claim that contractors are more expensive. Having worked in the Federal contracting area for over 50 years, I can attest that contractors are more efficient and particularly so when Government employees manage their contracts.
ReplyDelete"Having worked in the Federal contracting area for over 50 years, I can attest that contractors are more efficient and particularly so when Government employees manage their contracts." Mr Rubble, surely you jest
DeleteDon't believe it's still true that the private sector has higher salaries. Especially when benefits are counted.
ReplyDeleteIf it actually is this bad, and has been this bad, then why the heck hadn't the jobs already been filled??? OH, that's right, because they weren't really necessary. Cry, cry, cry, cry....................
ReplyDeleteI suspect Mr Trump will tell them to absorb the work rather than hire outsiders.
ReplyDeleteWhat they mean is the fed employees might actually have to come into the office instead of leaving the work to the contractors.
ReplyDelete4:24 that is the point. if the ones that are there would work we would not need anymore.
ReplyDeleteHiring outside contractors was not what he has in mind.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I had a friend who was a carpenter and he went to work for the government at the Natl bureau of health in Bethesda Md as a maintainance man. They have about 6 large buildings there. On his first day at work his new boss gave him 2 repair slips that were minor jobs that needed doing,one was repair a cabinet door and the other was also something real minor. About an hour later he went back to his boss and said OK their done whats next. His boss said you don't understand what ever I give you thats it make it last all day. So thats what he did and thats how the job went until he retired. And this is a true story so when the unions get involved we get screwed but overall thats how the thinking goes with govt employees. Hopefully Trump will put a stop to that kind of crap.
ReplyDeleteGovernment workers create reasons to need more government workers because there is the bottomless pit of money flowing in.......until now.
ReplyDeleteThere are many many entire agencies that can be eliminated without there being any impact to the average citizen
If everything is running fine with the present employees, why would not hiring more slow things down? You don't make any sense, except to your stupid union boss...
ReplyDeletePrivate contractors are always more efficient than govt employees, the problem is the govt purchasing agents don't have a damn clue what things really cost in the real world so they set them selves up to get screwed. I know because I've done govt work and submitted totally outrageous bid and still got the work.
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