After cost-cutting blitz, Trump administration rehires hundreds of laid-off employees
Miami (AP) – Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs Elon Musk’s cost -lowering blitz He is asked to return to work.
According to an internal note obtained by the Associated Press, the General Services Administration enabled employees who manage the working areas to accept or reject them to restore their former state. Those who accept, how long after a seven-month paid vacation should report for the task, during this time, in some cases, in dozens of property, which have passed to the taxpayers. planned for termination Or it was allowed to expire.
“As a result, the agency was broken and insufficient,” a former GSA Real Estate official said. “They did not have the people they needed to perform the basic functions.”
Becker, who represented the owners who have government rental in Arco real estate solutions, said GSA has been in “triaj mode for months. Authorized, sudden reversal of the shrinkage reflects how the Ministry of Elon Musk and the Ministry of Government went too far.
Re -injured of liquidated federal employees
In the 1940s, GSA was founded to centralize the acquisition and management of thousands of federal workplace. The return to work reflects its efforts to fight again in various agencies targeted by Doge. Last month IRS, some employees who offered to resign Here’s stay. The Ministry of Labor also brought back some employees who bought the purchase, while the National Park service has made a series of liquidated employees.
It is GSA, which is critical for the work of such agencies and manages most of the buildings. Since March, thousands of GSA employees have abandoned the agency as a part of the programs that encouraged to resign or retire. Hundreds of people – those subject to recall notification – were rejected as part of an aggressive coercion to reduce the size of the federal labor force. Although these employees did not come to work, they would be paid until the end of this month.
GSA representatives did not answer detailed questions about the return of the agency’s return to work on Friday. He also refused to discuss the potential cost -effectives obtained by reversing the number of personnel, personnel decisions or leasing plans of the agency.
An agency spokesman is a E -Postada, “GSA’s leadership team has reviewed the labor force actions and makes adjustments for the benefit of customer institutions and American taxpayers,” he said.
The Democrats attacked the Trump administration’s non -discrimination approach to reducing costs and jobs. Greg Stanton from the senior democratic Arizona in the sub -committee that controls GSA, said the EP was not evidence of “providing any savings” at the agency.
“It has created a costly confusion while weakening the services that taxpayers are dependent,” he said.
Doge is an agency with approximately 12,000 employees at the beginning of the Trump administration. The head target of the campaign Reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government.
A small cohort of Musk’s reliable assistants, buried in GSA’s headquarters Sleeping in cot on the sixth floor of the agencyAnd followed his plans to suddenly cancel about half of the 7,500 leasing in the federal portfolio. Doge also asked GSA to sell hundreds of federal buildings to save billions of savings.
GSA started by sending more 800 rental notification In many cases, the government’s tenants in many cases. The agency also published a list of hundreds of government buildings targeted for sale.
Doge’s big job interruptions provided very little savings
The return of GSA’s emptying portfolio was quick and both initiatives were rejected. More than 480 rental planned by Dogge for termination has survived since then. These leases were for offices dispersed to the country occupied by agencies such as IRS, Social Security Administration and Food and Pharmaceutical Administration.
According to former GSA real estate official Becker, the “receipt wall”, which once the rental cancellations would only save approximately $ 460 million, reduced this estimate to $ 140 million by the end of July.
Meanwhile, GSA started major business cuts. According to a Federal official about the situation, the management reduced GSA’s headquarters personnel by 79%, 65%of portfolio managers and 35%of facility managers. Authorized authority, which is not authorized to speak to the media, provided statistics of anonymity.
Authority, as a result of internal turmoil, the government’s property really has to really evacuate the period of 131, he said. Since the property owners could not rent these fields to other tenants, the situation exposed the agencies to fees.
The public can soon get a clearer picture of what is going on in the agency.
The state accountability office, which is an independent congress observer, examines the management of GSA’s labor force, rental termination and the planned building and expects to publish findings in the coming months.
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