All federal employees are hired knowing full well that they are working for a PUBLIC entity, not a private one.
Both public and private sectors have varying ways to adjust their budgets as situations dictate, and human payroll is the biggest way.
Where was the responsibility to pay me when I was cut after 27 years working for a company?
Silly Private Sector Serf.
Being Laid Off is only for people who actually Produce anything of Value.
You and I don't have the Federal Reserve to print up pallets of new $100 bills, to keep paying us, no Matter How Useless we are, because that would be Counterfeiting.
You and I can't just Vote to keep taking out new credit cards, maxing them out, and tossing them on the pile.
Only the Moby Dick of Government can operate on Keynesian Economics that would get You and I arrested in a heartbeat if we tried it.