The U.S. Justice Department will not need to furlough employees this fiscal year after all, thanks to some moves from Congress and cost-cutting measures, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced to the agency late April 24. The budget actions the DOJ took mean that thousands of federal law enforcement agents, prosecutors and other agency employees will remain on the job despite a $1.6 billion budget cut from Congress called sequestration, Holder said in a letter to employees.
A similar budget maneuver prevented furloughs at federal prisons in March, and Congress this week provided more flexibility for the DOJ in its final 2013 budget, which funds the agency through September. But Holder warned that "few of the extraordinary actions" the agency is now taking to avoid furloughs will be available next year, making furloughs "a distinct possibility at the beginning of next fiscal year if sequestration levels continue."
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