Furloughs hit the NNSA’s Y-12 Field Office in Oak Ridge, where 70 of 78 federal employees are waiting for the government to reopen.
Thanks to the MAGA Trump government shutdown, nuclear safety has taken a back seat to tariff diatribes and demolition of the White House.
Most federal workers staffing the agency tasked with protecting the United States’ nuclear arsenal were off the job as the government’s 22nd shutdown crept closer to a fourth week. Once the government reopens, 1,400 of the 1,800 employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration will go back to work. These employees were told to stop working earlier this month, and the furloughs hit the NNSA’s Y-12 Field Office in Oak Ridge, where 70 of 78 federal employees are waiting for the government to reopen. None of the contractors who support NNSA’s missions – which include managing the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and storing bomb-grade uranium – are out of a job at this point. Work is continuing, an NNSA spokesperson told Knox News, but Energy Secretary Chris Wright has warned layoffs could come if Congress can’t seal a deal on funding.
A number of House Democrats have sent a letter to Trump's supine Energy Secretary condemning the move.
Let's remember that the shutdown is all about Trump and MAGA Republicans attempting to remove subsidies for healthcare.
GOP grows uneasy over voters’ health care premiums amid shutdown standoff
Enormous tax breaks for Trump's billionaire broligarch cronies are fine but healthcare subsidies for tens of millions of Americans are not acceptable for Republicans.
