(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)Under President Trump’s budget proposal, federal employees at many agencies may need to acquaint themselves with a lately dormant but still much-feared term: Reduction in Force. Trump has made reducing the size of the federal workforce a priority — but Congress, which will ultimately have to pass the budget for 2018, may not be so cooperative. Trump’s budget blueprint is sparse on explaining how spending reductions might translate into job cuts. Early retirement and buyout incentives were offered widely during the Clinton administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce but relatively little since then. The Trump administration budget proposes shuttering 19 independent agencies, mostly small boards and commissions, along with several sub-agencies of Cabinet departments.

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2017 13:37 UTC