Posted on 03/08/2013 1:29:10 PM PST by Hoodat
West Wing employees will face furloughs and pay cuts due to sequester, deputy White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday.
Earnest did not specify what cuts the White House would make to its own staff, though he said “we’re also faced with making some tough decisions when it comes to ongoing projects” and equipment purchases.
“We’re also a pretty personnel-heavy agency, if you will,” Earnest said. “So that means that there will be employees … who work here at the White House that will be facing pay cuts, that will be facing furloughs and again, this is the result of a policy that Democrats and Republicans agree is really bad.”
The White House has been vague about what it will cut from the West Wing budget. It was announced Tuesday that public White House tours will be suspended as part of sequestration cuts to the Secret Service, though that agency is part of the Department of Homeland Security, not the Executive Office of the President.
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“We’re also a pretty personnel-heavy agency, if you will,” Earnest said.”
A well run business is not personnel heavy. Too bad the furloughs will be the result of a poorly run White House. Take it up with the boss. I’m sure he can find some old people to starve instead.
I am having a panic attack, NOT
Good.
We can only guess:
MO’s Second Deputy Assistant Boob-Belt Organizer will get a 2% pay cut.
Valerie Jarrett will have a 1% reduction in her round-the-clock Secret Service Protection
Obama will only have three apprentice caddies chasing his balls around the course, instead of the usual four.
Jay Carney’s lie-generation staff will each have to take a 2-hour furlough per week.
“24 staff personnel get the axe.”
She needs 24 yes men to say how lovely she is everyday. The same poor saps at the background of the Oscars scene where they had to hold their vomit while looking at her behind.
Well, since the sequester is not really cuts, but a sight decrease in the amount of increase, shouldn’t the employees be getting raises instead, but just not as big a raise as they thought???
The troubling thing is so many low information people believe the crap being spewed out of DC.
Furlough the President. The Chief of Staff for Walking the Dog can substitute on the days he takes off.
Furlough the President. The Chief of Staff for Walking the Dog can substitute on the days he takes off.
I’m hoping this doesnt apply to Obamas 102 thousand a year dog walker.
Boo effin Hoo! Lets hope they are terminated! This Gov has to much dead weight anyway! And besides it’s the new American experience to not have a job. Wouldn’t want them to feel left out of the process.
They’ll need to keep all those who help Mochelle gut up off her ass and get moving.
Thanks Hoodat.
Better get out the wet-vac for the pools of tears.
They have tried to hide this fact and have done a good enough job that the intelligent people who don't live and breath politics believe that it is actually a meaningful cut.
This is so much Barbra Streisand. Who writes this stuff, the staff from American Idol or Dancing with the Stars?
“West Wing employees will face furloughs and pay cuts due to sequester....”
Of course they will. Obama has been embarrassed, so he must punish Americans and cause them more pain.
So hey, where are we sending his spawn for Spring Break?
Lock Buckwheat and Sasquatch out of the White House Monday through Thursday. That will save billions.
Which one? There are three. Salaries range from $89K to $95K.
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