Monday, March 25, 2013
Defense Department would see the largest number of furloughs.
Furloughs, one of the most feared effects of sequestration, could start as early as April 21 at the U.S. Department of Defense. Recent machinations in the Senate to keep the federal government functioning beyond the impending March 27 expiration of stopgap funding are likely to leave the sequestration cuts in place, prompting the potential furlough of thousands of federal workers, The Washington Post reported. The so-called “continuing resolution” also would extend the lack of federal salary increases. Federal salaries have remained flat since January 2010. Click here to read the full story in The Post. Another Post article detailed the furloughs, half of which would be absorbed by the military. Defense Department officials notified a …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Graphs break down number of federal employees in each Maryland county.
The numbers here show the federal employees in Maryland by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a Washington, DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment. It compiles the data from the Office of Personnel Management, Federal Employment Statistics and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here in the Washington, DC region, county officials, including Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, have urged congressional leaders to come to compromise on the sequester. No one knows for certain what the sequestration cuts, some $85 billion, will mean exactly. Even if the March 1 federal cuts are enacted, the full effects would not be felt immediately. The government is required to alert impacted agencies of …
Mandated federal budget cuts, if not averted, could impact the large federal presence in Maryland.
Maryland's congressional Democrats are taking to Twitter Thursday afternoon to talk about the coming sequestration cuts to federal budgets. The cuts, equally split between defense and non-defense spending, could have a large impact on Maryland if not averted. Civil employees could be furloughed a day per pay period, and the cuts would also impact work at military bases in Maryland, including at Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground. In Elkridge on Wednesday, Gov. Martin O'Malley said sequestration could cost 12,000 jobs in Maryland. The town hall from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday will be held on the hashtag #AskMDDems and questions and answers will be posted on the delegation's own Twitter feed. We will be following the responses and updating …
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Prince George's, Montgomery, Howard County officials say federal spending cuts would wreak havoc on local economy.
Ranking officials in Prince George's, Montgomery and Howard County are urging Congress to come to a compromise that could avert steep cuts in federal spending—known as the sequester—set to go into effect on March 1. “Sequestration would feel like a cold to most of the nation, but to [Prince George's County] and the rest of the Washington metropolitan area, it would feel like a bad case of pneumonia," read a statement attributed to Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker in a release issued by the county executives of Montgomery, Howard and Prince George's counties. "One-quarter of the federal workforce in this region are residents of Prince George's County, so many of them are eagerly awaiting a positive conclusion to this …
Roland
10:55 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Of course the democraps had nothing to do with the coming sequestration cuts. It's all the rethuglicans fault. congress is the worst enemy America has.... more ›