Extreme Downsizing of Dept. of Interior. Hits just keep on coming.

[elkduds]

The US Interior Department Turns to Staff Cuts By Incentivizing Employees to Leave

The U.S. Interior Department is set to cut staff in 2026, and while layoffs are not on the cards, deferred resignation programs lead the way.

www.thehrdigest.com

 

[marksjeep]

@elkduds article is from Oct. or bad link.

 

[elkduds]

@elkduds article is from Oct. or bad link.

Thanks, edited to different link from yesterday,

 

[BuzzH]

President’s Budget Proposal Slashes National Park Service Funding Amid Ongoing Attacks on National Parks

“A cut this massive would be catastrophic. This proposal would only accelerate the damage, putting our national parks at even greater risk and further cut the park staffing that is needed to care for our national treasures." John Garder, NPCA's Sr. Budget & Appropriations Director

www.npca.org

 

[LopeHunter]

I guess are no more air traffic controllers to axe. They axed the newly hired during Doge and newly transferred as that restarts your probation window. Oh, and controllers were understaffed as it was. Winning!!

Hand me a sledgehammer and stand back as I tear stuff up and leave you the mess to stare at for years. What is on today’s schedule? Cuba? No? Oh, the Interior Dept. Obviously deserves a 3rd term so we can bask in all this winning longer.

 

[marksjeep]

USGS EMA back in the crosshairs in the '27 request, go figure.

 

[Addicting]

Talked with the kids about this over breakfast. Hard for teens to understand. The reality is you have to pay attention to who and what you vote for. Lessons on thinking independently and asking questions come election time.

 

[44hunter45]

Talked with the kids about this over breakfast. Hard for teens to understand. The reality is you have to pay attention to who and what you vote for. Lessons on thinking independently and asking questions come election time.

I can no longer vote FOR any candidate. The choices always suck and I'm voting against the one I dislike the most.

 

[belshawelk]

Cut all the waste then you can truly see what is needed. Way to many federal employees. Government needs to be smaller not larger.

 

[44hunter45]

Cut all the waste then you can truly see what is needed. Way to many federal employees. Government needs to be smaller not larger.

The problem with "Running the Government like a business" is that the most easily cut are those who make the least and do the majority of the real work.

 

[Addicting]

I can no longer vote FOR any candidate. The choices always suck and I'm voting against the one I dislike the most.

We talked about that too, how some good choices were in the primary. We are spoon fed they won’t win from the media people believe their vote is a waste and fall inline with two craptastic candidates.

 

[Hunting Wife]

The problem with "Running the Government like a business" is that the most easily cut are those who make the least and do the majority of the real work.

We’re running it like a business all right, and have been setting the stage for this since Citizens United. The billionaires know the game, and are getting some huge returns on their election investments.

 

[44hunter45]

We’re running it like a business all right, and have been setting the stage for this since Citizens United. The billionaires know the game, and are getting some huge returns on their election investments.

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This. Nothing more needs to be said.

Edit: Actually Diane, you know I can't keep my hands off the keyboard.

It goes back farther than that. It was a real epiphany for me when Hal Herring exposed the Sage Brush Rebellion as a resource grab by those in smoke filled rooms. Not to be too poetic, but we Reaganite Rebels were the unwitting army of these barons. We thought it was about property rights, it was really about making it easier for extraction industries to get to the resources.

It showed me that populist movements are rarely what they seem.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Way to many federal employees. Government needs to be smaller not larger.

Typical "gubment hater" lingo ... but not altogether bad idea. Federal government is large and complex. It seems reasonable to cut back some of the top heavy bureaucracy ... however, I am opposed to cutting back those who maintain the Interstate system for safe travel, or reducing FAA safety programs such as flight controllers, or reducing the number of USFS forest managers and trail crews ... and on and on. To merely advocate that "Government needs to be smaller not larger." is more of an ideological/political opinion, rather than a healthy consideration of what "government" is and does for us.
And don't forget that Congress is also part of government, as is the Supreme Court, and as is all those programs you may support.

 

[belshawelk]

The problem with "Running the Government like a business" is that the most easily cut are those who make the least and do the majority of the real work.

Maybe but many big companies such as mine take from the top through middle. Of course lower paid also go but you cannot make meaningful cuts if you don’t include top earners.

 

[belshawelk]

Typical "gubment hater" lingo ... but not altogether bad idea. Federal government is large and complex. It seems reasonable to cut back some of the top heavy bureaucracy ... however, I am opposed to cutting back those who maintain the Interstate system for safe travel, or reducing FAA safety programs such as flight controllers, or reducing the number of USFS forest managers and trail crews ... and on and on. To merely advocate that "Government needs to be smaller not larger." is more of an ideological/political opinion, rather than a healthy consideration of what "government" is and does for us.
And don't forget that Congress is also part of government, as is the Supreme Court, and as is all those programs you may support.

Fair but I don’t hate government. I want it working for me. Not providing but working. Right now they work for themselves and way to many of them.

 

[mxracer317]

The problem with "Running the Government like a business" is that the most easily cut are those who make the least and do the majority of the real work.

Well then a company like that is gonna go out of business. Because well run companies don’t cut their hardest working employees.

The Founding fathers wanted maximum freedom and minimum government. I’m in all for a well ran government… As long as it’s not bloated.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Right now they work for themselves and way to(sic) many of them.

There you go again ... with that lingo. Who the heck is "they"?! Who the heck is "them"?! Your brush seems to broadly smear the gubment hatred again. 'Just saying.

 

[338win]

Is the fed gov too large? Probably. The cuts won’t be done in a way that does anything other than benefit the donor class. A good start would be cutting back on defense budget. I also have a list of GS 13/14s that are absolutely worthless that I’d like to throw into the mix.

 

[Hunting Wife]

I think there are plenty of folks, both working for these agencies, and among the general public, that can agree agencies have become too top heavy, decision-making authority has been removed to levels of folks who don’t have any understanding of the actual issues at hand and the impacts of the decisions on local communities. Reorganization is certainly in order.

That said, the process by which this is being done is so chaotic, so haphazard, and utterly wasteful. It is also thus far resulting in even tighter federal oversight of decisions at the Departmental level, reduced opportunities for locals to be included in decision making, and more giveaways to big business. It’s just making the problem 10x worse than it was to begin with.