If they think contractors are “not performing” wait til they see the productivity drop when there’s only federal employees around.
Absolutely NOTHING will get done, guaranteed.
I doubt that Akaka fully understands the impact or the limiting plus-up by this action. They are simply buying another month or two. If congress isn’t doing anything now...why expect 60 days to help? I’m also doubting that folks understand that non-essential services...includes the cleaner crews for the pentagon and the various services...so the enlisted guys...are going to go back and start cleaning headquarter’s buildings again....like they did in the 1970s. The grass cutting business? Same thing....privates and airman will be cutting grass on a daily basis.
Federal employees are going to fill any great void here...if they dismissed 50 percent of them today...I doubt you would notice them gone for at least two months. I watched an organization once...which had a empty slot that they wanted to promise some retiring officer (0-5) but the guy had nine months before he was at his retirement. So they simply didn’t advertise the job, and left it totally vacant. The commander kept saying...oh...we will get to it next month, and delayed the process. The intended candidate got the job eventually....but alot of folks began to figure out that they didn’t need this slot at all.