Facts Checking: Did Clinton set up a precedent for mass federal ransom of workers? | News Donald Trump

While unions and democrats denied the efforts of Trump’s administration to reduce the federal labor force through the purchase of workers, some social media users said that the presidential procedures were parallel to those of former President Bill Clinton.

“To all of you Democrats who have frightened because of the program of buying President Trump, I present to you part of history,” wrote LD Basler, a retired federal law clerk on the X. His post quoted a 1995 statement, Clinton gave a year after which he signed signed one year after signing a year after signed. Federal Law on Labor Power Restructuring.

“I guess Clinton didn’t even have authority, when did he do so in the 90s?

Is that true?

Under Clinton, the Government offered mass purchases. However, there is a key difference with what is happening under President Donald Trump: a two -party congress who has superiorly approved by the Clinton program after a months -long review.

Contrary to that, Trump’s “Delayed Resignation” offerConcreased as a purchase, he appeared within a week of his inauguration, with much uncertainty about the conditions.

“We spent six months, included several hundred federal workers and made hundreds of recommendations to Clinton and Gore, some of which accepted, some were not,” said David Osborne, an adviser in a review of Clinton’s era, which preceded the purchase.

The status and legality of Trump’s program remains unclear. The administration placed midnight on February 6 to accept the offer, but the federal judge in Massachusetts blocked that deadline and set up a hearing for February 10th.

Federal The unions sued and wrote that the administration “did not offer a legal basis for its unprecedented offer.” The lawsuit is asked whether the federal government will honor the obligation to pay the participants until September 30.

The US Office for Staff Management said 40,000 employees have taken over the offer from February 5th.

The buyers under Clinton were derived from the examination and acts of Congress

A few weeks of his Presidency in February 1993, Clinton issued Executive command Speaking to each state department or agency with more than 100 employees to reduce at least 4 percent of their civilian positions over three years through exhaustion or “early programs”.

The Congress opened the way for the purchase. In March 1994, Clinton was signed by HR 3345, the Federal Law on Labor Restructuring of 1994. Legislation that brought a wide, two-party margin: 391-17 in the home and 99-1 in Senate.

The Law approved the purchase of up to $ 25,000 for selected groups of employees in executive and judicial branches, in addition to employees of the Ministry of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency or the General Accounting Office (today it is called the Government Responsibility Office). The law set a deadline of April 1, 1995.

Clinton said the plan would allow “employment reduction” out of 273,000 people by the end of 1999.

“After all the rhetoric of reducing the size and cost of the Government, our administration worked hard and made difficult decisions,” Clinton said in a statement. “I believe the economy will be stronger, and the lives of middle -class people will be better, because we lower such a deficit with that.”

The legislation was the growth of Clinton’s national performance inspection, which in March 1993 was launched by the slogan “Make the Government to work better and cost less”. Clinton appointed Al Mount Vice President to lead the audit and make a report within six months.

About 250 career civil servants worked on examination and created recommendations with the agency employees.

Not everyone agreed with Clinton-Gore initiative.

“There were opposition,” but union leaders supported the reduction of medium -sized managers, the target of the majority of reduction and an increased role of union unions in work, “so they considered it an acceptable compromise,” John M Kamesky, Deputy Director of National Performance, told Politifact .

He visited the “federal offices for what is charged as” city meetings “, but are more similar to group therapeutic sessions that allow workers to broadcast their feelings for their jobs,” Chicago Tribune wrote in June 1993.

Goret’s September 1993 report made hundreds of recommendations, including purchases. Gore went to David Letterman’s late -night television show to promote the plan.

“So, did you fix the government?” Letterman asked.

“We found a lot of really funny things that cost too much money,” he said above.

Above, he brought up the ashtrays who bought the government and read federal regulations on how the ashtrays must break when they are discarded. Wearing security glasses, he broke the ashtray above with a hammer.

Clinton had “a very deep devotion to change, but he was not hostile,” said Paul Light, a public service professor at the University of New York.

Clinton’s effort to reduce the federal workforce stems from his campaign platform as a “new Democrat”, which said that the Great Government’s age was over, said Elaine Kamack, who helped to lead a audit of Clinton-Gore and is now the director of the Brookings Center Institution effectively public management.

“We had a technological revolution that was not needed by as many management layers as the old days,” Kamarck said.

As Trump’s administration wants to reduce the job

Clinton’s approach sought to be surgical in determining that employees could be mitigated without threatening the entire government mission.

Trump’s approach, so far, includes release and release, without a period of audit or congress action. January 28, the EC -E -e -e -e -e -e -e -e -e -efficiency employee’s employees on the road. (Elon Musk, who runs Trump’s new efficiency of the Ministry of Government, used the same phrase in a message for all staff 2022 after the purchase Twitter.)

E -Mail states that distant workers must return to work five days a week and offer a “delayed resignation”. The employees left it by February 6 and paid for it until September 30 (until the Successful Intervention on February 6). E -After hinted that release is possible.

About two million employees received an offer. The civil federal labor force is about 2.4 million, extracting US postal workers, according to the Pew Research Center. The average annual salary is around $ 106,000.

Some workers were exempt from bids, including military, postal services and workers in the implementation of immigration, national security and public security.

Trump’s program is more generous than Clinton’s, Rachel Greszler, a senior research associate at Heritage Foundation, a conservative research center, she told Politifact. Clinton’s $ 25,000 offer is about $ 55,000 in today’s dollars. Trump’s plan says they will pay people for about eight months, so factoring is in the average federal salary of workers, the higher.

Democratic lawyers said payments may not be guaranteed and called union workers to follow the leadership of their trade union officials. Democratic senators have expressed similar concerns about a short window that employees will decide and Trump’s authority do it.

Trump issued an order for workers’ publicity to make them easier to dismiss them – another subject of lawsuits. A command to stop the federal diversity, equality and inclusion program (dei) has led to the workers set on paid leave.

Journalist ask Secretary for the Karolina Leavitt White House printing house if the program was a way to clean the government of people who disagree with the president.

“It’s absolutely false,” Leavitt said. “This is a proposal to federal workers that they have to go back to work. And if not, then they have the opportunity to resign. And this administration very generously offers to pay them eight months.”