Are fewer than one of every 10 Environmental Protection Agency employees essential to its work?
Only federal employees classified as “essential” can work during a government shutdown. At EPA, that means just 6.6 percent of its workforce, according to Reuters.
Of the agency’s 16,205 employees, a mere 1,069 will work through the shutdown. That means that taxpayers employ 15,181 people at the EPA who are “non-essential.”
Because of the shutdown, the EPA will not be able to work on the rules requested by President Obama in his climate plan, but Dina Kruger, a consultant and former climate change director at the EPA, said the agency would be able to complete the rules on time. It might just have to “work a little harder” once the shutdown ends.
Film at 11..... 🤔 🤔
That number is most definitely too high.
essential is a fun word to play around with. It's not in the context you want it to be but fun none the less.
teedubbya wrote:
I know.. it's like around the holidays here and you get the e-mail stating Non-esentials can start the weeked early.. 🤔 do you really want to leave or not.. 🤔
In this instance the designation of essential and not is bizaar.
