Biden says every executive department and agency will be closed on the 9th for Jimmy Carter. The director of North Florida/South Georgia's VA facilities says "Nah, we're gonna be open for that."

She did the same thing when he announced that Christmas Eve would be a federal holiday as well, but that made more sense because he did it about five days in advance that time.

hm. florida

oh, that's not gonna fly.

It did on Christmas.

They're framing it as...

🤔

ngl, va medical care probably should have been exempted.

But believing you can just overrule an EO is definitely such a bullshit thing.

Fail by both parties.

Yeah, I don't mind that we're working it, I just think that it's worth noting that this is the second time in less than a month that she's declared that Biden's orders don't matter to us.

yeah, that's definitely a questionable thing from her.

dorohedoro: It's not even necessarily a "Florida politics" thing, if that's what you may be implying, since that kind of position is high enough up that they're a national level employment brawl.

Worth noting that, from what my coworkers have said, when Trump ordered closures on extra holidays, we closed.

This can honestly be either a MAGA thing or a trying to keep a hold of a flaming hot potato situation, since the PACT act sent a lot of stuff into overdrive where the VA is concerned.

JulyFlame: it's more that this feels like close to the Nth time this year someone highup the food chain in a government position of some kind in florida has done something resembling forcibly pushing through/approving a program or policy specifically doing the opposite of something approved by the federal exec branch mere days prior and that feels. hm

Also I went and looked, if I found the right woman, she started during Biden's term.

on its own it would still be a national level fracas regardless of where it happened, but being located in the region it is dings my pattern rcognition badly

Ah, I thought she'd been around for a good seven years or so.

Looks like she was Deputy, during Trump's last term, so there, but not in charge.

They've designated it a holiday for purposes of work, so I can get double pay for working that day.

Honestly, that is the best outcome.