Sequestration Budget Cuts: Where Do Federal Employees Work?
There are more than 90,000 federal employees in Michigan. Click on Wayne County in the interactive chart below to find out how many there are here and hover over the bars to see which departments they work for.
Unless Congress reaches a last-minute agreement on the sequester by Friday, the huge budget cuts slated to kick in have the potential to affect nearly 9,000 federal employees working in Wayne County.
Barring any kind of deal, the Obama administration will have to impose $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts to military and domestic programs on Friday, according to The New York Times. Those cuts would be the start of $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade.
The numbers in the graph above show the number of federal employees in Michigan by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment.
It compiles the data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
On Sunday, the Obama administration released a report that showed Michigan could see millions of dollars in federal cuts if the sequester takes effect.
No one knows for certain what the sequestration cuts—some $85 billion hitting the education, business, health care and military sectors—will mean exactly.
Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston estimated this week that the district would see a loss of $1 million in funding—or a 5.3 percent cut "across the board," according to his calculations.
“A cut to funding is always going to mean a loss of jobs,” Whiston added.
Even if the March 1 federal cuts are enacted, the full effects would not be felt immediately. The government is required to alert impacted agencies of what cuts are to be made and what workers are to be furloughed.
(U.S. Postal Service Employees are excluded in this count. The USPS receives no tax dollars in its operations and would not be affected by the sequestration cuts.)
Aridog
3:38 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
Very interesting how an actual 2.23% cut (it's actually a reduction in spending that is increassing anyway...not a cut per se at all) grows larger by the minute. As former military and "fed" I assure you that initally there are 2.23% plus in cuts to non-critical acquisitions alone that can be made without laying off one single employee....not to mention cuts to the increases in unfunded entitlements...e.g., not Social Secuity or medicare. But you are NOT going to be told that by the administration's Chicken Littles. Nosiree. The administration will make cuts all right...but what will interesting will be what they DO NOT CUT.
OMG...2.23% reduction in expen diture growth is devastating. The great progressive Cloward-Piven crowd tell us so...but not a peep about the 2% tax increase for every working soul in the US of A, including every one who owes no tax on their poverty level AGI's. In the military we call that a BOHICA moment... similar to SNAFU and FUBAR...but means Bend over Here It Comes Again.