WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- The Senate Appropriations Committee issued the following news release:
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report (https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108477) released today finding the Trump administration spent $9.5 billion paying federal workers not to work as part of its sweeping campaign to reduce the federal workforce. In many cases, after pushing out federal workers and paying them not to work, the Trump administration proceeded to rehire for their roles, and those new hires have been less qualified (https://ourpublicservice.org/know-the-facts/blog/inside-the-chaos-of-the-defe...