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In reply to the discussion: Noem says Trump admin buying Chicago property for ICE [View all]BumRushDaShow
(161,662 posts)8. GSA... and they were about to undergo "mass layoffs" but then...
GSA walks back mass layoffs of its federal buildings workforce
Buildings Service faced the brunt of GSA's widespread layoffs, amid plans to drastically shrink its real estate portfolio.
Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED
September 22, 2025 11:06 am
The General Services Administration is looking to reinstate hundreds of laid-off employees who managed its governmentwide real estate portfolio. GSAs Public Buildings Service is giving laid-off employees the option to return to their jobs, after sending them reduction-in-force notices earlier this year.
This serves as an update to your previously issued notice of reduction in force. Your specific notice of Reduction in Force (RIF) has been rescinded, effective immediately, acting PBS Commissioner Andrew Heller wrote in a notice obtained by Federal News Network.
GSA is giving PBS employees until the end of the day on Friday, Sept. 26, to accept or decline reinstatement. If employees accept the offer, they must report to their previous posts by Oct. 6.
A GSA employee told Federal News Network that PBS is planning to reinstate nearly 400 employees who received RIF notices. Your decision of whether to accept or decline a return to duty is completely voluntary, Heller wrote in the notice.
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Buildings Service faced the brunt of GSA's widespread layoffs, amid plans to drastically shrink its real estate portfolio.
Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED
September 22, 2025 11:06 am
The General Services Administration is looking to reinstate hundreds of laid-off employees who managed its governmentwide real estate portfolio. GSAs Public Buildings Service is giving laid-off employees the option to return to their jobs, after sending them reduction-in-force notices earlier this year.
This serves as an update to your previously issued notice of reduction in force. Your specific notice of Reduction in Force (RIF) has been rescinded, effective immediately, acting PBS Commissioner Andrew Heller wrote in a notice obtained by Federal News Network.
GSA is giving PBS employees until the end of the day on Friday, Sept. 26, to accept or decline reinstatement. If employees accept the offer, they must report to their previous posts by Oct. 6.
A GSA employee told Federal News Network that PBS is planning to reinstate nearly 400 employees who received RIF notices. Your decision of whether to accept or decline a return to duty is completely voluntary, Heller wrote in the notice.
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The complete cluelessnes by this administration's lackeys about how the government has evolved into what it has, is truly breathtaking, and having handed over "personnel" functions to the "illegal alien Muskrat" to chainsaw it into pieces, has been a tragic exclamation point for their idiocy.
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I don't know if they really think the streets are full of murders and rapist or if they just say that
Walleye
Saturday
#1
It is because NOEM plans on ICE being in cities a LONG time........This is not a month or two event.
riversedge
Saturday
#18
She says. But there also might not be any sellers. Chicago already has several federal buildings
ancianita
Saturday
#9
Probably. Because privatizing this country and govt is the goal, so no oversight or accountability under law.
ancianita
Saturday
#19
That is a bullshit title. OUR tax money is buying property in Chicago for the ICEtapo.
Ferrets are Cool
Saturday
#10
Trump isn't buying it, we're buying it. And after we get him out of there, we can turn it into housing.
Vinca
Saturday
#12
There's always money for Kristi's Goons to "fight" criminals in their made-up fantasy land.
Diamond_Dog
Saturday
#26
My hunch is that they want buildings in the neighborhoods, not downtown.
greatauntoftriplets
Saturday
#30