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Source: Washington Post
Interior chief wants to shed 4,000 employees in department shake-up
By Lisa Rein June 21 at 4:18 PM
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told lawmakers Wednesday that he plans to shrink his departments sprawling workforce by 4,000 employees about 8 percent of the full-time staff as part of budget cuts to downsize the governments largest public lands agency.
Zinke, testifying before a Senate panel on the White Houses proposed budget for the Department of the Interior for fiscal 2018, said he would rely on a combination of attrition, reassignments and buyouts to make the cuts. Depending on how fast and effective those strategies are, the department will determine the need for further action to reduce staffing, he said in prepared testimony, a reference to possible layoffs.
In back-to-back hearings Tuesday and Wednesday in which he defended the White Houses plan to slash his departments budget by 13.4 percent, Zinke offered no additional details on whether the cuts will be concentrated in some offices or spread across Interiors nine agencies.
But 1,000 jobs would be lost at the Bureau of Land Management which manages hundreds of wilderness areas, two dozen national monuments and other protected lands in addition to issuing leases for livestock grazing and oil and gas extraction according to an email its acting director sent to employees last Friday.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)dems are gonna demand pure candidates, they are gonna get to do it.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)The very government they run.
So once they kill the federal government, does congress disband? Does the office of President cease to exist? What purpose would they serve if not to run the government?