STATEMENT | Trump Administration’s Most Recent Threat to Conduct Mass Firings Moves Us Further into a Lawless State
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Tim Whitehouse | September 25, 2025
In response to the Trump Administration’s threat to conduct mass firings of government employees if there is a government shutdown, PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse issued the following statement ...
PEERMail: Shutdown Lesson for Employees – Stop Being Pawns
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PEER | January 31, 2019
Shutdown Lesson for Employees – Stop Being Pawns This nightmarish government shutdown ended under a three-week truce as Trump threatens to do it again—for what would be the fourth government shutdown in two years. For federal employees caught in the middle of this ridiculous ...
Environmental Impact of the 2019 Shutdown
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Susan Sargent | January 25, 2019
While the human impact of the government shutdown is far-reaching, the environmental impact is also of grave concern. During the 2019 shutdown, National Parks remained open but with no security or hospitality staff on site, resulting in an increase in vandalism and destruction of property ...
PEERMail: The Shutdown’s Long-Term Costs
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PEER | January 15, 2019
The Shutdown’s Long-Term Costs Not only is this the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, it is also the dumbest. Incredibly, it is already the third shutdown during the relatively short but seemingly interminable Trump tenure. With the first round of missed paychecks, ...
