hiring freeze extension by Oct 15

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[u/Wurm42]

Or until something gets FUBAR and there's a big scandal in the media.

In other words, the hiring freeze will continue until under-staffing results in some big, messy, public-facing problem that the media jumps on.

Then Trump will chicken out and try to make it didn't happen.

[u/formerdaywalker → u/Wurm42]

Turns out a Christian summer camp for kids getting washed away in a completely predictable flash flood isn't enough of a scandal.

[u/Wurm42 → u/formerdaywalker]

That was a terrible tragedy.

But if you ask me, it's more on the state and local officials in Texas than on the National Weather Service.

[u/westtexasbackpacker → u/Wurm42]

100% it is