Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., threw his support behind the Trump administration’s plan to compensate federal workers in exchange for their resignation — a plan the Trump administration hopes will cut the spending and size of the federal government.
While speaking at a press conference during the House GOP’s retreat to south Florida on Wednesday, Johnson said, according to The Hill, that federal employees have been getting paid but not working for “four years under the Biden administration. They had full license, apparently, to not come to work. And it’s a terrible frustration for us and for the American people,” the speaker added, referencing the remote work policy put in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This is not like a private company. It should be that way, but it’s not,” he continued. “The new president can’t come in and just walk into an agency and say, ‘You’re all fired,’ you know, which, that [would] probably be appropriate in some of these places. But he’s not allowed to do that under the law.”
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