[CJ Wolf]

They will get a nice parachute depending on length of service and likely back pay. How is there 800k non essential employees.

[entropy12]

After working just 12 years for a govt funded agency, I was eligible to get $44k severence pay if laid off!

[Svartalfiar]

They will get a nice parachute depending on length of service and likely back pay. How is there 800k non essential employees.

You do realize that those 800M are only from a few parts of the government? Eighty-three percent of FedGov is already funded and not involved in the 'shutdown'. ALL of their non-essential employees are still working and getting paid! Assuming a similar ratio, that gives you somewhere around 4MM non-essential employees!

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t know who these employees are. Some may be non-essential, and some may be essential.

I do wish to see the fed gov reduced in size.

This seems like a great start, but when the full facts are know, it may be problematic to get rid of all of them.

That’s a whole lot of salary and benefit money right there.