"Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., was sworn into office earlier this month to take up the seat in Congress previously held by longtime Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly, a strong supporter of governmentwide IT initiatives who died in May. Walkinshaw - formerly a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors who spent over a decade working as the chief of staff for Conolloy - has quickly moved to carry on his predecessor's work, including taking over as sponsor of several federal workforce bills championed by Connolly."
"Nextgov/FCW: I have to start off by asking about the likely government shutdown and reports that the Trump administration has asked agencies to prepare plans for mass layoffs if federal funding lapses. James Walkinshaw: Federal workers have been under assault for nine months now. We've seen firings, we've seen mass layoffs - oftentimes illegal, and sometimes reversed by the courts, sometimes not. So the administration has already been doing what the Office of Management and Budget memo threatened they would do in a shutdown."
Rep. James Walkinshaw was sworn into Congress to fill Gerry Connolly's seat after Connolly's death in May. Walkinshaw previously served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and worked more than a decade as Connolly's chief of staff. Walkinshaw assumed sponsorship of several federal workforce bills championed by Connolly and prioritized governmentwide IT modernization. Concerns focus on ongoing efforts to fire and lay off federal employees, with many actions deemed illegal and sometimes overturned by courts. A government shutdown does not grant new legal authority to fire federal workers; civil service protections remain intact.
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