I understand what you said. However, when someone leaves their employment for one reason or another, it is the usual practice to fill the vacant slot.

Let me explain how it ideally works in Federal government. Notice I said IDEALLY - knowing it does not always work this way but some managers want to hire at the highest grade possible to maintain their budgets. HR fights as well as they can but are sometimes overridden. This has been going on in EVERY administration.

A HR Specialist will review the vacant position to ensure it is needed. The HR Specialist will then review the position to make sure it is at the proper pay level or if it could be filled at a lower grade or as a trainee position. This is called position management.

What the Republicans are proposing is when a position becomes vacant, it will not be backfilled until another similar slot is vacated as well (2 leave, 1 hired). Employee morale suffers since they are doing twice the work as before with no higher pay.

I did not post this as an argument for anyone, so do not take it as one, I posted it as information. It is not posted to have anyone repond with negatives toward government employees, etc. Thanks.