NYT: See which federal workers would be affected if a spending bill doesn't pass.

[Dennis Donovan]

NYT - See which federal workers would be affected if a spending bill doesn’t pass.

By Lazaro Gamio and Noah Weiland
Dec. 20, 2024, 3:32 p.m. ET

A government shutdown would have significant consequences for more than two million federal employees. Some would be forced to report to work and the rest would be furloughed. None would be paid during the shutdown.

More than two million federal workers would be affected by a shutdown




Both furloughed workers and the employees who would continue working during a shutdown would receive back pay once the president signs a new spending deal into law.

Federal agencies have devised their own plans for a shutdown, including who would be furloughed. Who is furloughed and who must report to work will depend on whether their duties are necessary to protect the government’s operations.

Some of the largest government agencies, including the departments of defense and the treasury, would see more than half of their employees furloughed. The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, would each have at least 90 percent of their employees furloughed.

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[Mike 03]

2. This is fantastically useful and helpful! Big thanks!

[Attilatheblond]

3. And the furloughed worker bees will also be treated badly by a lot of MAGAs when they aren't at work helping those MAGAS

Where I used to live, in extreme rural Montana, right wing ranchers & farmers have been known to actually show up at the HOMES of furloughed USDA/NRCS* & FSA** workers DEMANDING they get back to the office RIGHT NOW to help them secure the federal dollars from programs they signed up for, or want/need to sign up for RIGHT BLOODY NOW.

There have been threats of violence in the past when this has happened. I know personally as the wife who answered the door and told them to GET OFF MY LAWN and call their damned congressman.

The right wingers vote GOP religiously then get nasty, sometimes REALLY nasty, with the hard working federal employees who are their neighbors and who help them keep their farms/ranches in their families.

Seems likely other federal workers will also face hostility, if not actual abuse, by people who rely on government programs but keep voting for the party that doesn't want those programs to exist. But those fed workers might be a little less likely to be harassed because they don't usually live in smaller rural communities where everybody know everybody else, and where they live.

*Natural Resource Conservation Service, an agency that helps producers find & implement the government programs that pay them to make their properties more productive AND hospitable to the environment and wildlife.

** Farm Services Administration, the agency that processes the paperwork and gets checks sent out for the programs the NRCS helps producers find and implement.

[Solly Mack]

4. Oh, I know. We are among those who will be impacted.