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Brian Schatz: “RIFs are not really required under the Anti-Deficiency Act.”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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'I'm Quite Worried': Brian Schatz Warns Staffing Cuts May Hurt Tribes Even After Govt. Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 02:30

But it seems to me there are at least two things going on, right? There's the expiration of the appropriations bill, and that has pretty direct impacts on tribes. But then there's also these rifts that RIFs are not really required under the Anti-Deficiency Act. So can you, can you figure out what's causing what? I mean, the rifts. I know I can speak from my own experience. The rifts are causing us to not be able to even know some. (02:30–02:36)

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Asserts that RIFs (Reductions in Force) are not required under the Anti-Deficiency Act.

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