Federal workers might be about to get screwed—again.

President Donald Trump’s budget office has told federal agencies to brace for mass firings if the government shuts down next week—and with negotiations deadlocked, that’s looking more likely by the day.

The Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to agencies Wednesday night spelling out what to do if Congress doesn’t pass a spending bill by Sept. 30, according to Politico. Unlike the usual shutdown playbook, which relies on temporary furloughs, this one warns agencies to go further, issuing permanent reduction-in-force notices for workers on programs and projects with no legal funding requirement and “not consistent with the President’s priorities.”

In other words, some employees who would typically be brought back once the govern

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