Hmm. This article says RIFs can begin soon, but require 60 days notice.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/trumps_shutdown_trap.html
January 15, 2019
Trump's shutdown trap?
By Thomas Lifson
Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy? In only five more days of the already "longest government shutdown in history" (25 days and counting, as of today), a heretofore obscure threshold will be reached, enabling permanent layoffs of bureaucrats furloughed 30 days or more.
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Great chart, but I cannot see the far right side. FROM 2013. Oops.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slate_labs/2013/10/federal_government_shutdown_agencies_with_the_most_furloughs.html
Hardest hit by the shutdown are NASA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Education, and the Environmental Protection Agency. These agencies and others have basically gone on life support, with nine out of 10 employees furloughed, according to the Washington Post.
The effect of the shutdown on the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and Department of Defense is comparatively slight, with less than 20 percent of employees furloughed in each.
Starting with the insider post above and now this...I am getting really excited! This could be the single greatest event of this decade and perhaps the century if Trump holds firm, because more battles will come. But more on the latter later.
This chart has me giddy!
I consider the RIFing of these non-essential process-focused dead-weight liberty-sapping creatures to be the best available means to right-size government and governmental priorities than anything else currently available and viable.
Take NASA for example, they have been largely replaced by private sector interests. HUD and many of the rest are bloated middlemen passing confiscated wealth from producers to looters. The rest are ripe for severe pruning. It's not perfect, they cannot cherry-pick the scum of the scum...but by sheer numerical elimination they can achieve a lot.
Now, this means the President will need to proceed with the RIFing and resist any urge to cut deals with duplicitous demonazis! They have been lying and cheating us, especially on immigration, spending and financing and reforming government (term limits et al) since Reagan! No more! Not only do we want our wall, now we want full funding for reinforces concrete where we want it, and no reset to the default position prior to RIFing! We want the paring of government to be made PERMANENT!!!
The power has now swung to the President, he should get all he asks for, because he will get it now by RIFing and continued shutdown or legislation to his liking...there is no excuse not to bend these statist bastards over the barrel and drill them like you own them!