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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!

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