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Congress has the power of the purse. The power of the executive to spend money is limited by the appropriations approved by Congress and signed by the president,
Donald Kettl, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, wrote in an email to NPR On behalf of the National Science Foundation, I am informing you that the offer is valid, lawful, and will be honored by NSF,
Wonzie L. Gardner, chief human capital officer for the National Science Foundation, wrote in an email sent Thursday, according to reporting by NPR We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,
read an email that went out to FAA workers, as well as those at the CDC and Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, which was obtained by The New York Times Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed,
a CDC official told employees in a message obtained by ABC News In my decade-plus years at CDC I've never been told what I can and can't put in my email signature,
said one anonymous worker told the outlet These CBAs attempt to prevent President Trump from implementing his promises to the American people, such as returning Federal employees to the office to make government operate more efficiently,
The outgoing Biden administration negotiated lame-duck, multi-year collective bargaining agreements—during the week before the inauguration—in an attempt to tie the incoming Trump administration’s hands,
a White House fact sheet on the memo obtained by Fox News Digital states The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector,
You are most welcome stay at home and relax or to travel to your dream destination. Whatever you would like."
Another question about taking extended leave during the resignation period was answered I saw thousands of federal employees working at the site of a tragic plane crash today. None of them being unproductive."
Another, referring to the deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington on Wednesday night, said These are people working in prisons, working on our border, working at our airports,
A lot of people who work for the federal government do it out of a sense of service,
this person, an Iraq War veteran, said There’s a lot of fear about returning to the office,
The Trump administration’s recent efforts to encourage the bulk of the federal workforce to resign are perplexing, of questionable legality and dangerous, ... Stripping away expert talent through such a nonstrategic approach puts all of us at risk in a profound way.”
Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said, adding And so a lot of us are going to stay out of spite,
I don’t know anybody who’s interested in taking it,
the first USAID official said They just seem to be sitting back and sort of keeping their mouth shut, which is also difficult. … I don’t know where the lawyers are,
Everyone’s trying to just stick it out,
the Forest Service employee said For far too long, a bloated federal bureaucracy has cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year while strangling American enterprise and families with burdensome rules and regulations,
Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement There is a little bit of a sense of optimism that this is just the shock stage, and then things will plateau eventually, ... We know that a lot of these mandates coming out are supposed to shock us into submission or try to get us to leave our jobs. That’s the whole point of all this is to shank the government and to take out its workers.”
