The Trump administration accelerated widespread workforce cuts across the government on Friday as employees from multiple federal agencies learned they would lose their jobs.
Agency such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Bureau were hit by the latest layoffs as a team led by President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk reduced government spending and increased initiatives to cut government overhauls. I did. The administration has recently focused efforts on an estimated 200,000 probation workers who are not receiving the same protections as many other federal employees.
On Friday, EPA officials said 388 probation employees had been terminated. “President Trump was elected to establish a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans. We're doing just that,” said the agency spokeswoman. Laura Gentil said in a statement.
According to three people familiar with the issue, some of the biggest cuts were made in the energy sector and began firing staff on Thursday. Approximately 1,000 federal workers at the agency, all probation employees, were told that according to one of the people, they were out of work. On the condition of anonymity, all three spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the movement.
Over 300 of these workers were employed by the National Nuclear Security Agency, which manages the country's nuclear weapons fleet, and about 50 were in the department's loan program office, bringing new energy technologies to the market. It was helpful.
The firing caused confusion within the engine. On Friday night, at least some of the relaxed staff at the National Nuclear Security Agency, according to people with direct knowledge of the issue they spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to do so. They were told to go back to discuss the shooting.
Additionally, hundreds of federal employees have been fired from both the Bonneville Power Department and the Western Regional Power Department. A Department of Energy spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.
The termination also continued at the U.S. Forest Service, an agency within the agricultural sector that began firing around 3,400 probation employees on Thursday. Firefighters, law enforcement officers and other public safety-related positions have been exempt from termination, people said.
After billionaire Elon Musk and his team reuse it as a hub for their efforts to overhaul government, the US Doge Services help them drive, even in the offices that help them drive. It was a hit. People began receiving notifications, according to a copy of the notification seen by the New York Times on Friday evening, “USDS doesn't require any services.”
Government layoffs escalated on Thursday. This has advised that leaders from the Department of Personnel Management, the government's personnel department, meet with representatives of the agency and fire most probation workers. On Friday, the agency was instructed to send OPM officials an updated spreadsheet containing information about probation employees they had ended. The era.
Federal workers are usually on probation for a year, but in certain positions the duration lasts longer. The federal government had hired about 220,000 employees in under one year, according to the latest data as of May.
Since taking office, President Trump has been actively sought to reassess the federal private workforce. Later last month, the administration sent a massive amount of emails to provide the option to resign to around 2 million federal employees but to be paid until the end of September. About 75,000 workers accepted the offer, according to the Human Resources Administration. The administration closed the program to a new entry earlier this week after a federal judge rejected a blockade of the plan.
Other federal agencies have planned to abandon more workers in the coming days. According to several people familiar with the issue, the Internal Revenue Service is ready to fire thousands of employees soon next week.
Some workers fired this week said they were unsure of the sudden nature of the termination and were worried about how the loss of their position would affect government services. .
Katherine Tasheff, the web team manager at the Human Resources Office, said she received an email on Thursday afternoon informing her that she was losing her job and that the agency's communications office was about to break up. By abolishing these positions, Tashef said that federal workers struggling to access accurate information on the agency's website will be able to provide more information on health insurance plans, retirement benefits and other workforce policies. He said he was concerned that it could offer.
“There's a lot of contradictory information because it wasn't well managed in the past,” Tashev said. “It was something I was working to improve.”
OPM officials said other agents' employees will continue to update the web page.
The layoffs were also quickly condemned by union officials and Democrats, continuing the waves of the federal government.
Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, said on Friday he heard from ground workers that around 400 probation workers had ended at the Bonneville Power Department.
“This includes everyone who places workers in cybersecurity experts, from electricians and engineers to biologists,” Murray said in a statement. “These are literally people who help keep the lights on, and now they don't have any clue about what they do and why it matters, so they're He's been fired on a whim.”
On Friday, Trump said his administration's efforts to reduce the federal workforce would lead to “risqué” savings. “We want to reduce the government, but we want to improve it,” Trump said.
A Human Resources Administration spokesperson said probationary periods “are not a permanent qualification for employment,” and the agency puts independent measures to advance Trump's broader efforts to restructure the federal government. He said he is taking the initiative.
The report was contributed by Hiroko Tabci, Reed J. Epstein, Andrew Dupen, Alan Rappyport, Tyler Paiger, Linda Kew and Theodore Schleifer.
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