How agencies plan to meet sequester requirements -- FCW

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id="article"> <p id="ctl27_KickerText" class="kicker">Budget</p> <h3 id="ctl27_MainHeading" class="title">Sequestration: An agency view</h3> <ul id="ctl27_ByAuthor" class="byline"> <li class="author">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://fcw.com/forms/emailtoauthor.aspx?AuthorItem={CEAF923B-95F4-4F4E-84E1-6B86522BAE71}&ArticleItem={04526280-9228-4144-BA3F-081FC2EAE7D3}">Camille Tuutti</a></li><li class="date">Feb 28, 2013</li> </ul> <div class="remove imageCap"><img class="remove" title="Sequestration effects: An agency view" alt="illustration dollar sign in vise" src="/web/20130514032854im_/http://fcw.com/articles/2013/02/28/~/media/GIG/FCWNow/Topics/Budget/budget_vise.ashx"> <p>As sequestration forces agencies to cut spending, federal employees can expect a range of consequences. (Stock image)</p></div> <p>With no resolution in sight to avert the sequester, agencies are just hours away from having to ramp up measures to adopt the across-the-board budget cuts, including implementing furloughs. </p> <p>During the past few months, agencies have intensified their preparations to work under tighter fiscal conditions, whether planning for a pay freeze, reduced overall spending or furloughs. </p> <p>While furloughs have always been on the table, it is an option most agencies want to avoid if they can. Some agencies, such as NASA, the Small Business Administration and the Government Accountability Office, have said they will implement the cuts without having to furlough employees. In contrast, the Defense Department is planning furloughs for more than 800,000 employees.  (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://fcw.com/articles/2013/02/20/dod-furloughs-sequestration.aspx">Related article</a>).</p> <p>Other agencies also say they can't avoid furloughs. When <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://www.faa.gov/news/testimony/news_story.cfm?newsId=14354" target="_blank">Federal Aviation Administration</a> Administrator Michael Huerta testified Feb. 27 before the House Transportation Committee, he said FAA had looked at all the alternatives to cut costs, including a hiring freeze, fewer contracts and less travel, to spare the 47,000-strong workforce.</p> <p>"But to reach the large figure we need to cut, we have little choice but to make up the rest through furloughing employees," Huerta said. The furloughs could cost employees up to 20 percent of their pay, he said. </p> <p>Other agencies’ sequester plans include:</p> <p><strong>Agriculture Department:</strong> More than 30 percent of the USDA's 100,000 employees could be furloughed for nearly two weeks, according to a White House statement.</p> <p><strong>Environmental Protection Agency:</strong> Employees could face as many as 13 furlough days, according to a Feb. 26 internal memo from Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe. </p> <p><strong>Government Accountability Office: </strong>The watchdog said a sequester at the proposed $27.3 million would <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/652324.pdf" target="_blank">slash its planned hiring</a> by 60 percent and cut current staffing level to 2,875 full-time equivalents, a decrease of 472 FTEs.</p> <p><strong>Health and Human Services Department:</strong> In a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.appropriations.senate.gov%2Fht-full.cfm%3Fmethod%3Dhearings.download%26id%3D1bede552-5c7f-47ef-a6c3-62cf980dc073&ei=1GYvUaHiE6yB0QHD6oCoDQ&usg=AFQjCNGlaLu07YP_A3NPYF3NnxD67QUvCQ&bvm=bv.43148975,d.dmQ" target="_blank">Feb. 1 letter</a> to the House Committee on Appropriations, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius did not specifically address furloughs but wrote about the sweeping consequences to HHS programs if the sequester were to happen.</p> <p><strong>Homeland Security Department: </strong>A large number of law enforcement personnel could see furloughs of up to 14 days, Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://www.dhs.gov/news/2013/02/14/written-testimony-secretary-napolitano-senate-committee-appropriations-hearing" target="_blank">Feb. 14 letter</a> to the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Customs and Border Protection plans to furlough employees for one day each pay period starting early to mid-April through September, the equivalent of a 10-percent pay cut. The Transportation Security Administration would need to furlough 50,000 officers for up to seven days. </p> <p><strong>Labor Department:</strong> Acting Secretary Seth Harris sent employees an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://www.dol.gov/sequestration/impact.pdf" target="_blank">email Feb. 20</a> mentioning furloughs in general, but offered no specifics on the agency’s own planned actions. "I personally hoped that furloughs could be avoided, because they will interrupt the important services we provide to the American people and because of the impact on your livelihood and your families," Harris said. </p> <p><strong>Social Security Administration:</strong> In a Feb. 7 letter to Congress, former Commissioner Michael Astrue wrote the agency would try to avoid furloughs, "however, the possibility of furloughs remain uncertain at this time." </p> <p>However, agencies may maintain business as usual for a little while, said John Palguta, vice president of policy at the Partnership for Public Service.</p> <p>"If there’s no agreement between administration and Congress, sequestration will officially go into effect March 1 and the initial impact will be fairly minimal," he said. "Nobody will be furloughed Monday, March 4 because employees will have been given 30-day notice and 30 days to respond." </p> <p class="pullquote">I dare you to read their stories and tell me that what’s happening to these people is OK -- William Dugan, Federal Workers Alliance.</p> <p>Programmatically, every agency not exempt in the sequestration bill will have to figure out how to survive on a leaner budget. Considering the sequester could last for the remainder of the fiscal year, "you don’t wait until the end of the fiscal year because if you haven’t saved your money until then, you shut down the agency and that’s not acceptable," Palguta said.</p> <p>So, agencies should clamp down on spending by any means necessary -- canceling travel and training, shutting down contracts, or considering hiring freezes. "And the longer [the sequester] goes, the greater the negative impact we’re going to see on agency operations and on employees," Palguta warned.</p> <p>Recent surveys have shown that the looming sequester causes worry among not only feds but the general public. In a Feb. 27 survey of 1,000 Americans, most said sequestration would have a major effect on the economy and the U.S. military, according to the Pew Research Center and the Washington Post. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://fcw.com/articles/2013/02/27/pew-poll-sequester.aspx">Related article</a>).</p> <p>Federal employees themselves have concerns a sequester might push them deeper into debt and make it harder to keep up with their bills. In a Feb. 26 survey released by National Treasury Employees Union, 80 percent of the employees surveyed said furloughs would make it tough to pay their rent or mortgage, utility bills and food. Sixty percent said they would have to dip into their savings or retirement plans to pay for expenses. (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://fcw.com/articles/2013/02/26/sequester-personal-fears.aspx">Related article</a>).</p> <p>"It’s very frustrating, obviously, for many federal employees because many don’t have a lot of money stocked away and some of them are paycheck to paycheck, and that’s going to cause some disruption," Palguta said.</p> <p>The Federal Workers Alliance’s newly-launched <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130514032854/http://www.quicktopic.com/50/H/6F5wDrDVdjY" target="_blank">message board</a> has seen an outpouring of that dissatisfaction. Since its recent launch, hundreds of federal employees have shared their stories on how potential sequestration furloughs would impact their lives. "I dare you to read their stories and tell me that what’s happening to these people is OK," said FWA Chairman William Dougan. 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Unfortunately, by constantly running to the camera/microphone, politicians (in particular the president) have ratcheted up the stress levels to the point where nothing will get done. Stay away from the camera and work with congress behind the scenes to resolve this. Every time the presdient takes the podium, he tries to make EVERYTHING a crisis. Is this one really a crisis? Was the last one? Or the one before? Cry wolf too many times and just when you really mean it, everyone is numb and ignores you. I am a fed and I too will be hit with this. It is wrong trying to balance the deficit and pay down the debt ALL on the discretionary side. Until entitlements are addressed, the president/congress are only hurting civil servants trying to make this a better country, and not solving anything. I'm thinking the president's legacy will not be a good one. Congress never has a good legacy.</p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Fri, Mar 1, 2013 <span class="name"> </span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> How many hill staffers will be fiurloghed? Alll I hope. Maybe then our representatives will earn their salary. </p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Fri, Mar 1, 2013 <span class="name"> IGNORED</span> <span class="location"> PA</span> </h2> <p> About 3.5 Trillion dollars in expenditures and we cannot shave off a mere 80 Billion dollars ? Oh wait, about 75% of all the "programs" and agencies are exempt, so it is really about an $80B cut out of around $700B pot of money. The other programs where a few hundred billion dollars could be trimmed are totally IGNORED. Congress AND the President will IGNORE cutting from these untouchable programs because it would be political suicide to do so. It would fix the problem but end their careers. So they will just kick the can down the road with another "deal" that IGNORES the overall problem. We owe over $16 Trillion dollars. We borrow money to pay just the intersted on this debt. We don not pay down the debt. The Govt brings in almost 2 Trillion dollars in taxes and revenue. The Govt spends over 3.6 Trillion dollars. This is a yearly ritual. Nothing has changed for decades. The Govt will never pay this money back because there is no way possible to come up with this amount of money. We will continue to vote in folks who will spend money like everyday is Christmas and the bottom line is that the DEBT will be IGNORED and Congress and the President will continue to spend because they are not paying a dime towards it anyhow and they want to keep their jobs. This is what happens when the Foxes and Voltures rule the hen-house. Just sure stinks to be a hen.</p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Fri, Mar 1, 2013 <span class="name"> </span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> It looks like (according to what I see in the media) that the powers that be including the senate and house do not care. I see more concern over things like gun control than how do we pay our obligations.</p> </div> <div class="standard"> <h2> Fri, Mar 1, 2013 <span class="name"> </span> <span class="location"> </span> </h2> <p> Expect lots and lots of politcal theater and then a last hour, last minute Continuing Resolution, which will kick the can down the road for another 3 months. Rinse and repeat until the REAL Fiscal Cliff is encountered. That will be the collapse of the Bond Market.</p> </div> <p> <a id="ctl53_ShowAllCommentsBtn" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl53$ShowAllCommentsBtn','')">Show All Comments</a></p> </div> <div class="commentform"> <h3> Please post your comments here. 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