Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought’s new partial government shutdown guidance implies the executive branch will use a hatchet in some areas and go easy elsewhere — with Democratic priorities likely first on the chopping block.
A February memo to agencies from Vought and the Office of Personnel Management on how to plan mass layoffs said the process would be based on past shutdown procedures as a “starting point.”
That prior guidance said reductions-in-force, or RIFs, wouldn’t affect military and other uniformed personnel or positions “necessary to meet law enforcement, border security, national security, immigration enforcement, or public safety responsibilities.”
