Constituent Services Impacts of Federal Workforce Firings Act

This bill would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study how federal workforce cuts have affected services that federal agencies provide to the public, such as processing benefits, answering calls, and responding to congressional casework. Workforce cuts covered include formal reductions in force, deferred resignations, firing of probationary employees, early retirement and buyout offers, hiring freezes, and forced relocations. The study would look at processing times, backlogs, wait times, error rates, effects on remaining employees, shifting of work to contractors, and the full cost of the cuts. GAO would have to send a report to four congressional committees within 18 months and post it publicly on its website.

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Sponsors

• Brittany Pettersen Democrat sponsor
• 11 cosponsors