Anyone heard about this? Apparently if the shutdown persists for 30 days POTUS can start laying off federal employees en masse.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/trumps_shutdown_trap.html
Here, let me help you with that.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/reductions-in-force/
>An agency is required to use the RIF procedures when an employee is faced with separation or downgrading for a reason such as reorganization, lack of work, shortage of funds, insufficient personnel ceiling, or the exercise of certain reemployment or restoration rights. A furlough of more than 30 calendar days, or of more than 22 discontinuous work days, is also a RIF action. (A furlough of 30 or fewer calendar days, or of 22 or fewer discontinuous work days, is an adverse action.)
If I'm interpreting this right, once the shutdown is over 30 days all the furloughed employees are subject to RIF.