 House Republicans Give Themselves The Power To Slash Pay Of Federal Workers They Don’t Like To $1It s only been a couple days since Republicans received massive backlash for trying to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics. Not they are doing something just as despicable.Republicans hate federal workers and Donald Trump s team has been leading a witch hunt demanding names of federal workers who work on climate change and LGBT issues. Clearly, they have something sinister in mind by specifically targeting those federal employees.And under the cover of the uproar over Republican efforts to kill the ethics panel, Republicans passed a rule known as the Holman Rule that gives Republicans the power to target specific individual federal workers and programs.According to the Washington Post,The rule changes the process of passing spending bills by allowing any rank-and-file House member to propose an amendment that would cut a specific federal program or the jobs of specific federal employees, by slashing their salaries or eliminating their positions altogether.Before this rule change, an agency s budget could be cut broadly, but a specific program, employee or groups of employees could not be targeted because of civil service protections.For example, Republicans could use the rule to cut a specific federal worker s pay down to a $1. Yeah, you read that right. One whole dollar.So let s say Republicans find out that a certain federal worker in the Energy Department in studying the effects of climate change. They could persecute that person by cutting their pay to force them to stop doing their job. Or they could cut the pay of a federal land management employee as punishment for protecting public lands from hooligans like the Bundy brothers.It s an absolutely terrifying rule that makes it incredibly clear that Republicans intend to destroy anyone who doesn t agree with them. This is tyranny, pure and simple.Maureen Gilman, who represents 150 federal employees as legislative director for the National Treasury Employees Union, is very concerned. This is part of a very chilling theme that federal workers are seeing right now,  Gilman told the Washington Post.House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer criticized the rule on Tuesday as  shortsighted and ideologically driven changes to our civil service  in step with Republican efforts to use federal employees as scapegoats.Rep. H. Morgan Griffith is the Republican who revived the rule and his opinion on the rule is even more frightening because he compared it to using a sniper rifle against the federal government and admitted that Republicans could use the law to send thousands of federal employees to the unemployment line.He favors a strategic application of the law, likening it to a bullet from a sniper rifle rather than a shotgun. It s unlikely   but not impossible   that members will  go crazy  and cut huge swaths of the workforce, he said. I can t tell you it won t happen,  he said in an interview in his office.  The power is there. But isn t that appropriate?This is yet another outrageous rule Republicans are using to attack the government they despise. It s a way for them to launch personal vendettas and get revenge and anybody who doesn t agree with their extremist ideology is in danger of losing their livelihood. It s an attack that should enrage the American people.Featured image via Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesNews
house republicans give themselves the power to slash pay of federal workers they don like to couple days since republicans received massive backlash trying gut office congressional ethics not something hate federal workers donald trump team leading witch hunt demanding names federal workers work climate change lgbt issues clearly something sinister mind specifically targeting federal cover uproar republican efforts kill ethics panel republicans passed rule known human rule gives republicans power target specific individual federal workers washington post the rule changes process passing spending bills allowing house member propose amendment would cut specific federal program jobs specific federal employees slashing salaries eliminating positions rule change agency budget could cut broadly specific program employee groups employees could targeted civil service example republicans could use rule cut specific federal worker pay yeah read right one whole let say republicans find certain federal worker energy department studying effects climate change they could persecuted person cutting pay force stop job or could cut pay federal land management employee punishment protecting public lands hooligans like buddy absolutely terrifying rule makes incredibly clear republicans intend destroy anyone agree this tyranny pure german represents federal employees legislative director national treasury employees union concerned this part chilling theme federal workers seeing right german told washington minority whip stony hover criticized rule tuesday shortsighted ideologically driven changes civil service step republican efforts use federal employees morgan griffith republican revived rule opinion rule even frightening compared using sniper rifle federal government admitted republicans could use law send thousands federal employees unemployment favors strategic application law linking bullet sniper rifle rather shotgun it unlikely impossible members go crazy cut huge swath workforce said i tell happen said interview office the power but appropriate this yet another outrageous rule republicans using attack government despise it way launch personal vendetta get revenge anybody agree extremist ideology danger losing livelihood it attack engage american image via chip imagenes
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT:  House Republicans Give Themselves The Power To Slash Pay Of Federal Workers They Don’t Like To $1It s only been a couple days since Republicans received massive backlash for trying to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics. Not they are doing something just as despicable.Republicans hate federal workers and Donald Trump s team has been leading a witch hunt demanding names of federal workers who work on climate change and LGBT issues. Clearly, they have something sinister in mind by specifically targeting those federal employees.And under the cover of the uproar over Republican efforts to kill the ethics panel, Republicans passed a rule known as the Holman Rule that gives Republicans the power to target specific individual federal workers and programs.According to the Washington Post,The rule changes the process of passing spending bills by allowing any rank-and-file House member to propose an amendment that would cut a specific federal program or the jobs of specific federal employees, by slashing their salaries or eliminating their positions altogether.Before this rule change, an agency s budget could be cut broadly, but a specific program, employee or groups of employees could not be targeted because of civil service protections.For example, Republicans could use the rule to cut a specific federal worker s pay down to a $1. Yeah, you read that right. One whole dollar.So let s say Republicans find out that a certain federal worker in the Energy Department in studying the effects of climate change. They could persecute that person by cutting their pay to force them to stop doing their job. Or they could cut the pay of a federal land management employee as punishment for protecting public lands from hooligans like the Bundy brothers.It s an absolutely terrifying rule that makes it incredibly clear that Republicans intend to destroy anyone who doesn t agree with them. This is tyranny, pure and simple.Maureen Gilman, who represents 150 federal employees as legislative director for the National Treasury Employees Union, is very concerned. This is part of a very chilling theme that federal workers are seeing right now,  Gilman told the Washington Post.House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer criticized the rule on Tuesday as  shortsighted and ideologically driven changes to our civil service  in step with Republican efforts to use federal employees as scapegoats.Rep. H. Morgan Griffith is the Republican who revived the rule and his opinion on the rule is even more frightening because he compared it to using a sniper rifle against the federal government and admitted that Republicans could use the law to send thousands of federal employees to the unemployment line.He favors a strategic application of the law, likening it to a bullet from a sniper rifle rather than a shotgun. It s unlikely   but not impossible   that members will  go crazy  and cut huge swaths of the workforce, he said. I can t tell you it won t happen,  he said in an interview in his office.  The power is there. But isn t that appropriate?This is yet another outrageous rule Republicans are using to attack the government they despise. It s a way for them to launch personal vendettas and get revenge and anybody who doesn t agree with their extremist ideology is in danger of losing their livelihood. It s an attack that should enrage the American people.Featured image via Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesNews
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: house republicans give themselves the power to slash pay of federal workers they don like to couple days since republicans received massive backlash trying gut office congressional ethics not something hate federal workers donald trump team leading witch hunt demanding names federal workers work climate change lgbt issues clearly something sinister mind specifically targeting federal cover uproar republican efforts kill ethics panel republicans passed rule known human rule gives republicans power target specific individual federal workers washington post the rule changes process passing spending bills allowing house member propose amendment would cut specific federal program jobs specific federal employees slashing salaries eliminating positions rule change agency budget could cut broadly specific program employee groups employees could targeted civil service example republicans could use rule cut specific federal worker pay yeah read right one whole let say republicans find certain federal worker energy department studying effects climate change they could persecuted person cutting pay force stop job or could cut pay federal land management employee punishment protecting public lands hooligans like buddy absolutely terrifying rule makes incredibly clear republicans intend destroy anyone agree this tyranny pure german represents federal employees legislative director national treasury employees union concerned this part chilling theme federal workers seeing right german told washington minority whip stony hover criticized rule tuesday shortsighted ideologically driven changes civil service step republican efforts use federal employees morgan griffith republican revived rule opinion rule even frightening compared using sniper rifle federal government admitted republicans could use law send thousands federal employees unemployment favors strategic application law linking bullet sniper rifle rather shotgun it unlikely impossible members go crazy cut huge swath workforce said i tell happen said interview office the power but appropriate this yet another outrageous rule republicans using attack government despise it way launch personal vendetta get revenge anybody agree extremist ideology danger losing livelihood it attack engage american image via chip imagenes