While unions and Democrats condemned the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce through workers’ acquisitions, some social media users said that the President’s actions are parallel to the actions of former President Bill Clinton.

“For all Democrats who are afraid of the acquisition program for President Trump, I present to you part of history,” LD Basler, a retired federal law enforcement officer, on X. The Federal Manpower Restructuring Act.

“I think Clinton did not have power either, when he did so in the 1990s?

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Under Clinton, the government made collective purchases. But there is a major difference in what is happening during President Donald Trump’s era: A conference of the two parties agreed with an overwhelming majority on the Clinton program after months of review.

In contrast to that, Trump’s “deferred resignation” offerKnown as the acquisition, appeared within a week of his inauguration, with a lot of uncertainty about the conditions.

“We spent six months, we participated in several hundreds of federal workers, and we have made hundreds of recommendations to Clinton and the injustice of the acquisitions,” said David Osporen, a consultant to review the Clinton era, some of which were previously.

The status and legitimacy of the Trump program is still unclear. The administration set a deadline in midnight on February 6 for workers to accept the offer, but a federal judge in Massachusetts prevented this deadline and set a hearing on February 10.

Federalism Unions She wrote that the administration “did not provide any legal basis for its unprecedented presentation.” The lawsuit wonders whether the federal government will honor the commitment to pay the participants until September 30.

The US employee management office said that 40,000 employees, as of February 5, took the offer.

The acquisitions arose during the Clinton era of a review and action by Congress

A few weeks after his presidency in February 1993, Clinton released Executive order Inform each government administration or agency with more than 100 employees by reducing at least 4 percent of its civilian positions over three years through attrition or “early programs”.

Congress paved the way for acquisitions. In March 1994, Clinton signed Human Resources 3345, the Federal Manpower Restructuring Act of 1994. The legislation approved by the large partisan margins: 391-17 was passed in the House of Representatives and 99-1 in the Senate.

The legislation was named the acquisitions of up to $ 25,000 for selected groups of employees in the executive and judicial branches, with the exception of employees of the Ministry of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, or the Public Accounting Office (now called the Government Accountability Office). Law set April 1, 1995, the deadline.

Clinton said the plan would enable “reduction in employment” by 273,000 people by the end of 1999.

“After all the rhetoric about reducing the size and cost of the government, our administration has made hard work and made difficult options,” Clinton said in a statement. “I think the economy will be stronger, and the lives of the middle class will be better, as we offer a deficit by legislation like this.”

This legislation was to review the National Performance of Klinton, which was launched in March 1993 with the slogan “making the government work better and costly.” Clinton appointed Vice President Al Gore to lead the review and issue a report within six months.

About 250 professional civil employees worked on the review and established recommendations with the agency’s employees.

Not everyone agreed with the Clinton-Gore initiative.

“There was opposition,” but union leaders supported reducing the strength of the medium managers, the goal of most discounts, and the increase in the role of the unions in bargaining, “so they felt that this was an acceptable comparison,” John M. Kaminski, Deputy Director of National Performance Review, told politifact.

The Chicago Tribune in June 1993 has been visited that Gore visited “federal offices for what is described as” city meetings “but more like group therapy sessions that allow workers to broadcast their feelings about their jobs.”

The September 1993 Gore report made hundreds of recommendations, including acquisitions. Gore went on David Litrman’s TV program late at night to promote the plan.

“So, did the government fix?” Litrman asked.

“We have found a lot of ridiculous things that cost a lot of money,” said Gore.

Gore brings cigarettes from government and reading federal regulations on how to collapse cigarettes when dropping. Wear safety glasses, a cigarette gorge with a hammer.

Paul Light, an honorary professor of public service, said Clinton had “a very deep commitment to change, but it was not hostile.”

“The director of the Brookings Institute Center for the effective public administration said,” Eline Camark, who helped lead the Clinton-Jour review, is now director of the Brookings Institute Center for the effective public administration.

“We had a technical revolution that did not require many layers of management, such as the old days,” Camark said.

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Clinton’s approach sought to be a surgical to identify employees who can be diluted without compromising the comprehensive task of the government.

Trump’s approach, so far, includes acquisitions and releases, without a review period or action in Congress. On January 28, the Federal Personnel Management Office sent e -mail on “the fork on the road”. (Elon Musk, which heads Trump’s new government efficiency section, used the same phrase in the All-SAFF message in 2022 after purchase twitter))

The email said that workers should return to work for five days a week and offered “deferred resignation.” The employees until February 6 had to resign and pay until September 30 (until the court entered February 6). E -mail glimpsed that the demobilization of the workers was possible.

About two million employees received the show. The lack of civil federal worker is about 2.4 million, and the allocation of US postal service workers aside, according to the Pew Research Center. The average annual wage is about 106,000 dollars.

Some workers have been exempted from offers, including military personnel, postal service employees and workers in the application of immigration, national security and public safety.

Rachel Gardrler, an oldest research colleague at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research company, said the Trump program is more generous than Clinton. Clinton’s offer of $ 25,000 is about $ 55,000 in dollars today. Trump’s plan says it will pay people for more than eight months, so the collaboration is in the salary of the Mediterranean federal workers, and this is higher.

The Democratic Public Prosecutor said that the payments may not be guaranteed and urged union workers to follow the guidelines of union officials. Democratic Senate members raised similar concerns about the short window of employees to make a decision Trump authority To do this.

Trump has issued an order to redress workers so that he can shoot them more easily – another topic of lawsuits. An order to end the programs of federal diversity, shares and integration (DEI) led to the status of workers on a paid leave.

Correspondent to request White House press secretary Caroline Levit if the program is a way to purify the government of people who disagree with the president.

“This is completely wrong,” said Levit. “This is a proposal for federal workers that they must return to work. And if they do not do so, they have the option to resign. This administration is generous to pay them for eight months.”