Sequestration Budget Cuts: Where Do Federal Employees Work?
There are more than 90,000 federal employees in Michigan. Click on Washtenaw 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 5,000 federal employees working in Washtenaw 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, will mean exactly. 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.)
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Real Life
8:36 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
The entire sequestration is 2% of the 2013 budget. Half of that goes to defense, of which Michigan is under-represented. Regardless, this small amount does not even cover the increase in federal spending due to "baseline budgeting", so the total federal burden on the economy is still going up. And unfortunately, the President has declined to accept responsibility as an executive to apportion the small reductions in the increase of federal spending. As a consequence, there may be a small affect on employment, but if there is, it will be exceedingly small.
Bob
1:33 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
We don't need more government spending. Democrats are creating major government dependency and are making a big deal of this to increase taxes. We can't spend more and hope that the economy gets better. We need to believe in god and accept Jesus Christ our lord and savior, and our country would pull through.