By Matt Stafford
KOAA
FREMONT COUNTY — The March 1st deadline is approaching quickly. If Congress doesn’t act, sequestration goes into effect; it’s a series of budget slashing and tax increases. Federal agencies across the board are watching closely, and worried about their budgets.
“We’ve been wondering, how are they going to cut the staff lower than what it’s already been cut to?” asks Mike Schnobrich; president of the American Federation of Government Employees local chapter and an employee at the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence.
Schnobrich represents just over 400 federal employees; many of them work at the Correctional Complex in Florence.
“We’re working on the razor edge right now on staffing to maintain these secure facilities,” says Schnobrich. So talk of possible further cuts is upsetting.
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