US agencies face mass layoffs as Trump and Musk push for govt downsizing
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US President-elect Donald Trump walks with Elon Musk before attending a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, US, November 19, 2024 . — Reuters
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WASHINGTON: In a major move to reduce the US bureaucracy, President Donald Trump fired more than 9,500 federal workers on Friday, supporting his adviser Elon Musk, from the management of public lands to the military former The role of supporting soldiers was affected.
Admission, energy, veterans, agriculture, and health and humanitarian activists ended their job in a campaign that is widely widely – but not specifically – hiring in their first year But probationary employees have been targeted with less jobs. Reservations
Some agencies must have been closed, such as the Independent Watch Dog User Financial Protection Bureau, where workers are also affected by fixed term contracts.
The tax collection internal tax service is preparing to dismiss thousands of workers next week, two men aware of the matter, the move that the US has to file the Income Tax before the last date of April 15. Can squeeze.
According to the White House, the shootings reported by Reuters and other major US media outlets, in addition to about 75 75,000 workers who have made a purchase that Trump and Musk have offered to leave them voluntarily. – Which is about 3 % of the civilian workforce of 2.3 million people.
Trump says the federal government is very fools and has lost a lot of money and lost. The federal government has a debt of about $ 36 trillion and had a $ 1.8 trillion deficit last year, and there is a bilateral contract on the need for reforms.
But Congress Democrats say that Trump is crossing the constitutional authority of the legislature on federal spending, even as his fellow Republicans, who control the majority of the Houses of the Congress, supported the steps to a great extent. Is
Critics have questioned the richest man in the world, Musk’s two -folded point of view, which has collected extraordinary influence in Trump’s presidency.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Basant on Friday resolved these concerns by comparing the performance of the Musk department with a financial audit.
He told the Fox Business Network, “These are serious people, and they are moving from the agency to the agency, auditing, looking for the best ways.”
The Musk is relying on a cottage of young engineers with less government experience to manage its diagial campaign, and is more driven by the idea of reducing their initial deduction costs.
‘I have cheated on my country’
Federal federal workers expressed shock.
“I have done a lot for my country and as an experienced person who served my country, I feel like my country has cheated,” Nick Giveia said, who services in the army Perform and worked for the Defense Department. On Thursday alone, the total will be fired 17 years ago in December before joining the USDA’s economic research services.
“I don’t think it has anything to do with federal workers, I feel like it’s just a game,” Gevia, who lives in Elizabeth Town, Kentucky, and is a baby in her epilepsy. “Sitting here and tweeting people like Mr Musk to see how he feels like he is doing a great job, he does not realize what he is doing to people’s lives.”
Steve Lencart, executive director of the National Federation of Federal Employees Union, who represents more than 100,000 workers, said he expects Musk, whose SpaceX business has major agreements with the US federal government, and The Trump administration will focus on agencies that organize the industry. Finance.
“This is really the case,” said Lencart. “It is turning the government away from the industry and incredibly rich people, which is why Elon Musk is very excited about it.”
Nuclear deductions ‘partially recovered’
Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that about 1,200 to 2,000 workers were left in the Department of Energy, including 325 of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which Monitoring nuclear storage.
The roofs have been “partially recovered,” a source said. It was unclear how many of the 325 shootings were recovered.
Sources told Reuters that more than 2,300 employees were focused from the Home Department, which manages 500 million acres of public lands, with more than 60 national parks as well as on and offshore oil and gas lease. There are also programs.
Sources said that an unknown number of workers was also shown in the agriculture department.
According to the Associate Press, the centers of disease control and prevention centers are cutting about 1,300 workers, or one -third of its staff.
The firing increased a period of deductions, targeting departments, including former soldiers’ affairs, education, and small business administration.
According to the person familiar with the matter, officials of the Federal Hiring Office, who oversee the Federal Hiring, met with the agencies on Thursday, and advised them to leave their recently hired employees. Give those who lack job concerns, according to the person familiar with the matter.
Sources told Reuters that the pace and expansion of Musk’s efforts have given rise to the growing frustration due to the lack of harmony among some of Trump’s assistants, including the White House Chief of Staff Social Wills.
The legal fodder challenges the musk
In addition to the lack of job, Trump and Musk have tried civil service reservations for career employees, mostly frozen US foreign aid, and some government agencies such as US Agency for International Development and CFP The B about the Entire is completely closed. .
Unions representing federal workers have filed a lawsuit to stop the purchase project.
Three federal judges who oversee the privacy cases against the DEGE will consider on Friday whether the Musk team is likely to be in the Treasury Department’s payment system and US health, consumer protection, and labor agencies. Access to sensitive data should be accessed.
Musk has sent the Dodge members to at least 16 government agencies, where they have access to the computer system with personnel and financial information, and have sent workers home.
According to a letter sent in response to the request of Democratic lawmakers, the Inspector General of the Treasury Department has begun an audit of the payment system security controls.
