Washington (AP) – The Trump administration increased its comprehensive efforts on Thursday to reduce the size of the federal workers, the largest employer in the country, by ordering the agencies to take almost all trial shorts that have not yet gained any protection of the public service Had – potentially affected hundreds may affect hundreds. of thousands of workers.
In addition, workers were warned in some agencies that immense cuts would come in the workplace.
The decision about probation workers who generally have less than a year in the workplace came from the Office for HR management, which acts as a HR department for the federal government. The notification was confirmed by a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she was not justified to discuss them publicly.
Even the workers in the personnel office itself were not immune: dozens of probation employees at OPM were announced on a group call on Thursday afternoon that they were released, and then instructed the building to leave within half an hour under the condition of the anonymity.
It is expected that it is the first step in extensive layoffs. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday, who asked the agency drivers to plan “large -scale gaps in strength”.
Elon Musk, which President Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency has distributed to government spending on the removal of entire agencies.
“I think we have to delete entire agencies instead of leaving many of them,” said Musk about a video wall of the world government summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “If we don’t remove the roots of the weed, it is easy for the weeds to grow back.”
Everett Kelley, the President of the American Federation of Government Officer, represents the federal worker, Trump accepted his office. “
The order on Thursday was an expansion of earlier instructions from OPM, which the agencies informed at the beginning of this week that the employees should be released if they do not meet high standards. It is not clear how many employees are currently in a trial period. According to state data that OPM maintained, 220,000 employees had less than a year at work from March 2024 – the latest available data.
The dismissal of probation assistants began at the beginning of this week and included the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Ministry of Education.
According to a union, the agency worker, including civil rights agents, special education specialists and student aid employees, at least 39 were released from the educational department on Wednesday.
The layoffs also met researchers from the Department of Veteran Affairs that worked on cancer treatment, opioid dependency, prosthetics and brand -pit exposure, said the US Senator Patty Murray Democrat on Thursday.
Murray said in an explanation that she heard of VA researchers in her state, whose research should stop immediately: “Not because her work is not urgently needed, but because Trump and Elon have decided to relieve these researchers out of a mood . “
Public employees for environmental responsibility, a group that defends the government agent, said that the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Ministry of Agriculture would be hit particularly difficult by taking out the subjects because they have problems recruiting inspectors for the recruitment of inspectors must be present at any time in most slaughterhouses.
The civilian federal workforce, which includes without military personnel and postal employees, consists of around 2.4 million people. While around 20% of workers live in Washington DC and in the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia, more than 80% live outside the Capitol region.
It is unlikely that layoffs lead to considerable deficit savings. When the Congress household office examined the topic, the government issued 271 billion US dollars annually, which compensated civilian federal employees. About 60% of total employees who were employed by the departments for defense departments, home protection and veteran affairs.
In theory, the government could shorten all employees and still have a deficit of over 1 trillion dollar that would continue to grow because tax revenues are required to keep up with the growing costs for social security and medicar.
Elaine Kamarck, Senior Fellow at the Brooking’s institution, said that the release of employees on probation was incorrect because she aims at younger workers.
“Baby boomers go back to the right and left, so that the people they want to keep are probably the most people who are on probation” for more than eight years with the intention of reinventing the government.
Trump’s first attempt to reduce the workforce was the postponed withdrawal program, which was usually referred to as buyout and offered to pay people by September 30th if they agreed to terminate. The White House said 75,000 people registered and a federal judge had released a legal roadblock for the program on Wednesday.
However, the number of employees who accepted the offer was less than the goal of the administration, and Trump made it clear that he would take further steps.
Employees of the Department of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development were announced this week that immense reductions, in some cases, would be halved by the workforce, according to a person who is familiar with the situation that is based on the condition of anonymity spoke because they were because they were because they were because they were because they were because they were because they were because they were not justified to discuss it.
The command that Trump signed on Tuesday presented that the government functions that are not required by law are prioritized for cuts and that the setting is restricted. With exceptions to functions such as public security, only one employee can be added to all four who leave. In addition, modern employees would have to be approved by a representative of the Doge and expand the influence of the Musk team.
Trump has praised Musk’s work to reduce federal expenditure.
The Republican President was also very critical of the federal employees of those who would like to continue to work remotely, even though his administration is also working to shorten the German office and end jobs throughout the government.
“Nobody will work from home,” said Trump on Monday. “You will go out, you will play tennis, you will play golf, you will do many things. You don’t work. “
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New York price registered. Associated press authors are white, Lisa Mascaro, Josh Boak and Collin Binkley in Washington; Carla Johnson in Seattle; Brian Witte in Annapolis, Maryland; And Jonel Aleccia in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
