Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Labor Department workers have already begun taking unpaid leave.
Since October of 2012, Patch has been reporting on the potential effects of sequestration in the DC area, and in March, we detailed some of the thousands of workers that could be furloughed if lawmakers were unable to reach an accord on spending issues. April 21, 2013, was identified by the Department of Defense as the first date that the furloughs could begin. Now that date has arrived and The Washington Post is reporting that some federal employees have already begun to take their unpaid time off. Bruce Anderson, a Labor policy analyst from Takoma Park who is splitting his furlough days across 10 pay periods, said he has had to reassure his 8-year-old son that “things would be OK” and that they “would get through it together as a family …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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 ›