Pentagon Issuing Lay Offs
By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: January 28, 2013
The Pentagon has started laying off thousands of contract and temporary civilian workers.
It's an effort to reduce spending ahead of possible mandatory budget cuts in March
A spokesman says the agency is letting 46-thousand people go.
Full-time civilian employees... which number in the hundreds of thousands... will undergo a one day a week furlough for 22-weeks.
If Congress fails to reach a deal on deficit reduction, the military will be forced to reduce its budget by billions of dollars.
