Good day all. We’re moving into week three of the Schumer Shutdown and the layoffs and riffs have begin. In previous shutdowns, the affected bureaucrats took this as a paid vacation knowing they would get back pay and other benefits. This time, things are different. Many of the jobs are going away.
One of the agencies being hit hard is the Internal Revenue Service. They are laying off up to 50% of their workforce. Here are the details from Newsmax:
The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce on Wednesday as part of the ongoing government shutdown, according to an updated contingency plan posted to its website. Most IRS operations are closed, the agency said in a separate letter to its workers.
Somehow, I don’t think most Americans are going to she any tears over the IRS getting hammered, especially after the Biden Maladministration announced that they were going to increase the number of IRS personal by 87,000 people.
The agency’s initial Lapsed Appropriations Contingency Plan, which provided for the first five business days of operations, stated that the department would remain open using Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act funds.
Don’t you mean the Democrats Inflation Increase Act? That law kicked off the massive inflation of the Biden Maladministration. Still, it means that some of the IRS bureaucrats will still be available to annoy the Hell out of everyone.
Now, only 39,870 employees, or 53.6%, will remain working as the shutdown continues. It is unclear which workers will remain on the job.
How about those that actually do something, like actually help taxpayers with questions on their tax forms? How about those who process refunds? Needless to say the Union’s aren’t happy. (Like anyone outside of the Beltway cares)
Doreen Greenwald, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in a statement that taxpayers should expect increased wait times, backlogs and delays implementing tax law changes as the shutdown continues.
“Taxpayers around the country will now have a much harder time getting the assistance they need, just as they get ready to file their extension returns due next week,” she said. “Every day these employees are locked out of work is another day of frustration for taxpayers and a growing backlog of work that sits and waits for the shutdown to end.”
That just tells me that the current tax code is to damn complicated and needs to be scrapped and something else put into place. (I tend to leans towards a flat tax myself)
She urged the Trump administration and Congress to “reach an agreement that reopens government and restores the services that Americans need and deserve.”
How about you call your buddies in the Democrat Party since this is all on them? They are the ones who want to hand illegal aliens a trillion dollars in American taxpayer funds, not to mention reestablish their own personal lines of gift, graft and kickbacks. The Republicans have provided a bill that takes care of funding the government until the budget is completed. It’s UpChuck Schumer and the rest of the Sombrero Gang that aren’t getting with the program. (And ignoring the will of the people)
The notice to workers states that furloughed workers and those who remain on the job will receive back pay once the shutdown ends. This is notable since the Republican administration on Tuesday warned of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers affected by a government shutdown.
For those who remain on the job, I can see them getting their back pay. For those laid off? The unemployment office is that way.
Last week, Trump said roughly 750,000 federal workers nationwide were expected to be furloughed across agencies, with some potentially fired by his administration.
I think we’re going to see just which agency is actually needed and what can be thrown on the ash heap of glaringly bad ideas. I think we’re also going to learn just how many people are actually needed to operate the government. If, as I suspect and hope, we discover that most of the government is doing is not only unneeded, but is actually harmful, I think we can expect some bills coming down the pike to permanently shutter a number of agencies and departments and cutting the number of government bureaucrats.
I don’t think UpChuck Schumer and Hiccup Jeffries have really thought things through. They are trying to maximize the harm to America and Americans, and in the end, they might just end up destroying yet another one of their political bases. The Democrats have relied on the faceless bureaucrats for decades to screw over the American people for the gain of the Democrat Party. What happens when that base simply evaporates, taking all that kickback money with them?
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