Sequestration Budget Cuts: Where Do Federal Employees Work?
There are more than 90,000 federal employees in Michigan. Click on Macomb 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 7,000 federal employees working in Macomb 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.)
Alicia
10:13 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
The majority of the country was against the billions of taxpayer dollars given to Chrysler and GM. Chrysler has petitioned for forgivenes for their outstanding loan and GM still owes taxpayer money. During this time millions of dollars in bonus money has been given to the executives and thousands of dollars to the employees. Same story with the banks. Yet federal government employees will be allowed to lose their jobs.