Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 2:18 pm
Article tries to make you believe that's somehow bad.
The mass furlough of 115,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Housing and Urban Development and the small Office of Management and Budget — 5 percent of the federal workforce — is happening because of the budget cuts known as sequestration.
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Even in a government shutdown, thousands of essential employees are still called to work. In this case, the only ones in the office will be a small number of Senate-confirmed presidential appointees who are exempt from furloughs and emergency responders.
So don't worry: the IRS will still be able to continue its essential function of harassing right-wing organizations.