Los Angeles is facing a $1 billion deficit and after all the fake ballot measures raising billions for drug-addled bums and teachers’ unions, is running out of funds and may actually have to fire some of its army of bureaucrats.

Faced with seemingly no other options, Los Angeles leaders may lay off thousands of city employees during the upcoming fiscal year to remedy its $1 billion shortfall.

“The severity of the revenue decline, paired with rising costs, has created a budget gap that makes layoffs nearly inevitable,” City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo said during the council meeting Wednesday. “We are not looking at dozens or even hundreds of layoffs, but thousands.”

However, thousands of layoffs “cannot and will not be the only solution” to the city’s dire situation, according to Szabo. The City Council must consider service cuts to balance its budget. In closed session, city leaders also mulled over the possibility of deferring union-negotiated raises to police officers, firefighters, trash truck drivers and librarians.

While city government tightens belts, it will still go on spending a fortune on illegal aliens. Meanwhile, LA County will keep plowing money into legal defenses for illegal aliens.

Both city and county keep plowing millions into RepresentLA, and there’s no sign that they’re winding down the Office of Immigrant Affairs which should not exist in the first place.

Millions continue to be plowed into RepresentLA under OIA even as LA suffers from a budget crisis and is preparing to fire thousands of employees.

LA Dems would rather fire employees than cut back on spending for illegal aliens.

Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield