The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Those who accept must report for duty on Oct. 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers
Yet…
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/09/white-house-budget-office-tells-agencies-to-draft-mass-firing-plans-ahead-of-potential-shutdown/
What Trump is trying to do is intimidate the Democrats. If the shutdown happens, and if he lays them off, when we get to the other side of the shutdown, he’s going to have to hire people to fill those positions. It’s not like this hasn’t already happened in June (such as 3,500 FDA employees) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-doge-rehire-workers-fired-b2765461.html and with probationary employees https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-workers-fired-rehired-job-uncertainty-confusing/ and Employees from the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Agriculture who needed to be rehired https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-employees-scramble-terminations-agencies-rescinded/story?id=118985384 and let’s not forget Air Traffic Controllers…