Yes!! Freezes federal spending and hiring, cut all government manpower by 20 percent in all agencies, and make it permanent. After that, cut it by 10 percent a year until all “non-essential” workers are terminated. Why do they have a job if they are not “essential”—i.e.—they are not needed?
I don’t think most people here really understand what “essential” means in the government. Just because you are categorized as non essential or non exempt does’nt mean your job is not important.
Example in DOD - civilian Inventory Managers are considered “essential” because they deal with direct soldier support on a daily basis. Civilian depot repair personnel and weapons assembly teams are not considered essential even though they are the highly specialized technicians who fix broken equipment for the military every day.
Many positions are coded essential or non essential based not in what they do but how they are funded. There is a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation here regarding this subject.
It is a really bad idea to just start-cutting people without knowing exactly what they do or don’t do first.