According to Associated Press, tens of thousands of civilian
employees in the Defense Department could receive warnings about potential
layoffs four days before the November election if impending spending cuts
aren’t averted, hitting presidential battleground states such as Virginia and
Florida hard.
The alerts would come in addition to any that major defense
contractors might send out at the same time to their workers under an
often-overlooked law, a prospect that is unnerving the White House roughly
three months before voters go to the polls.
Frederick Vollrath, a senior Pentagon official, outlined the
timeline for notification of possibly 10 percent of the 800,000-strong civilian
workforce in testimony Thursday before a House panel. He cautioned, however,
that no decision has been made on job cuts as Washington grapples with the
looming, $1.2 trillion automatic reductions in defense and domestic programs...
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