Calling it “the most distasteful task” of his four-year tenure,
Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale on Wednesday outlined the process for
furloughing up to 750,000 civilian Defense Department employees should
looming across-the-board-budget cuts take effect, hours after his
department sent Congress notice that a 45-day furlough clock is now ticking.Given the need to cut $46 billion, or 9 percent in all 2,500 Pentagon accounts if no new budget law is enacted by March 1, “we feel we don’t have any choice,” Hale told reporters. Reductions in force would be too expensive due to requirements for paying for unused vacation and severance, he added.
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