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NNSA is furloughing most of its staff

 According to this article, this could have far reaching effect on the NNSA.

Quote from article:

"As the government shutdown has persisted with no end in sight, NNSA has had to acknowledge that its funds are beginning to run out"

Details:

https://upolitics.com/news/trump-administration-furloughs-80-of-employees-at-nuclear-weapons-agency-amid-government-shutdown/

Comments

Anonymous said…
It looks like this will decimate LLNL and LANL. Many lab employees voted for this!
Anonymous said…
“It looks like this will decimate LLNL and LANL. Many lab employees voted for this!”

Voted for what, not to give health care to illegal aliens? Voted to remove ~20 million illegal aliens from the USA?
Sure, THEY are the cause of this. Right.

CA willingly became Tijuana North. Don’t expect the rest of the Country to bail you out of your OWN choices. CA is defying federal law. Getting scary folks. No joke.
Anonymous said…
No loss.
Anonymous said…
Other than making it easier to get work done will anyone notice? Poster 2:32 is confusing LANL staff with NNSA I think. Nothing against NNSA staff they try to do a decent job just they don't really enhance the mission in most cases.
Anonymous said…
This is a joke, right? You do realize that the NNSA doesn't actually do any real work. They just shuffle papers around and slow things down. In the DOE complex, all work is done by contractors like LLNS and TRIAD.
Anonymous said…
"It looks like this will decimate LLNL and LANL. Many lab employees voted for this!"

How would this decimate the labs?

Also any lab person that voted, can be considered as someone who "voted" for this since both sides are involved for the shutdown.

What is you point?

Anonymous said…
Illegal aliens pay taxes and are NOT eligible for benefits like the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid.
Illegal aliens pay taxes and are NOT eligible for benefits like the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid.
Illegal aliens pay taxes and are NOT eligible for benefits like the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid.
Puleeeze - enough with the misinformation!
Anonymous said…
I voted for Trump three times and my basic research funding this year is better than ever. I noticed all of the super-liberal scientists with TDS running around screaming that the sky is falling are the ones that are running out of funding. DOGE has cut the tree hugging BS and DEI, which has made more available for real science like quantum, nuclear, laser, AI, etc.
Anonymous said…
That fear of DEI is unjustified. Think of what it means! Oh! You can't. You must be a MAGA head feeding on OAN!
Anonymous said…
"Illegal aliens pay taxes and are NOT eligible for benefits like the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid."

Just to be clear whole lot of Illegal aliens do not pay taxes, I mean a lot, as they are paid under the table. Who knows what the number is but some estimates are up to 50% or more. You have to be pretty naive to not know this. This is of course part of the reason it is worth it for them to come to the US for low wages as they get more bang for their buck since they do not pay anything for their wages. This has always been the case.

"ACA, Medicare, Medicaid."

I have less knowledge of this, there is some fraud in this area as well, but the reality is that they do in fact get lots of free health care. They simply go to the hospital get treatment and never pay. There is no way to get them to pay as they are not even in the systems. Again I am surprised you did not know this.

Also to be clear there are some US citizens than get paid under the table, and never pay their hospitable bills as well.

Before you say I am anti-immigrant, I am not I simply want a good system that would allow guest workers to come in a legal way since there lots of jobs they do and we need. I just do not like the off the wall NPR talking points that get repeated that are just nonsense.

Also the claim that illegals commit less crime than US citizens is beyond wrong and easy to debunk by simply looking at the US prison populations. This is easy to understand as lots of illegal aliens are in the US to make money specially in crime, because as it turns out like most other work, crime pays better in the US than many other countries.


Anonymous said…
So what. To a person, they are parasites that add no value.