Essential and Non-essential government workers

Over the next 48 hours, you’ll hear the words “essential” and “nonessential” with regards to vulnerable federal employees and the looming government shutdown.

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Nonessential and out of touch, could government workers cope with losing their PDAs? Federal Workers Brace for Email Withdrawal While the federal government refers to them as “excepted” and “non-excepted”, my question is this: if there are around 800,000-plus employees the media considers nonessential and our government can technically function just fine without them, why are we wasting money retaining them in the first place?