- Workers inside, energy, agriculture, fired health departments.
- Largely firing test employees in their first year.
- The federal government is swollen and a lot of money is lost to waste: Trump.
Washington: President Donald Trump, backed by his advisor Elon Musk, intensified efforts to drastically reduce the American bureaucracy on Friday, dismissing more than 9,500 federal employees responsible for duties that range from supervising public lands to provide attention to military veterans .
The workers of the interior departments, energy, veteran issues, agriculture and health and human services had their job completed in an impulse that until now has a large extent, but not exclusively, probation employees directed in Their first year at work that has less employment protections.
Some agencies have been essentially closed, such as the independent surveillance agency of the Consumer Financial Protection Office, where the cuts also affect workers in fixed -term contracts.
The Internal Tax Collection Tax Service is preparing to fire thousands of workers next week, two people familiar with the matter said, a measure that could squeeze resources before the deadline of Americans to present taxes on the rent.
The shots, reported by Reuters and other important media of the US media, are added to the approximately 75,000 workers who have received a purchase that Trump and Musk have offered to voluntarily go, according to the White House. That is equivalent to approximately 3% of the civil workforce of 2.3 million people.
Trump says that the federal government is too swollen and that too much money is lost due to waste and fraud. The federal government has about $ 36 billion of debt and had a $ 1.8 billion deficit last year, and there is a bipartisan agreement on the need for reform.
But Congress Democrats say Trump is invading the constitutional authority of the Legislature on Federal Expenditure, even when their Republican companions who control the majorities in both Congress cameras have largely supported the movements.
Critics have questioned the approach of the forceful force of Musk, the richest person in the world, who has accumulated an extraordinary influence on Trump’s presidency.
The United States Secretary of the United States, Scott Besent, shrugged on Friday of those concerns, comparing the Efficiency Department of the Musk government with a financial audit.
“These are serious people, and they go from one agency to another, making an audit, looking for best practices,” Network Business told Fox Business.
Musk trusts a clique of young engineers with little government experience to administer their Doge campaign, and its first cuts seem more driven by ideology than reducing costs.
‘I have been betrayed by my country’
Federal workers fired expressed their shock.
“I have done a lot for my country and as a veteran who served his country, I feel that my country has betrayed me,” said Nick Gioia, who served in the army and worked for the Department of Defense for a total of 17 years before join the USDA economic research service in December only to be fired on Thursday night.
“I don’t feel that this has anything to do with federal workers, I feel that this is just a game,” said Gioia, who lives in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and has a son with epilepsy. “To sit here and see people like Mr. Musk tweet how he feels he is doing a great job, he does not realize what he is doing to people’s lives.”
Steve Lenkart, Executive Director of the Union of the National Federation of Federal Employees, which represents more than 100,000 workers, said it hopes that Musk, whose Spacex companies have important contracts with the federal government of the United States, and the Trump administration for concentrate on the agencies that regulate industry and finance.
“That’s what all this is really about,” Lenkart said. “He is taking the government out of the industry and incredibly rich people, so Elon Musk is so excited about this.”
Nuclear Courts ‘Partially terminated’
Around 1,200 to 2,000 workers in the Department of Energy, including 325 of the National Nuclear Safety Administration, which supervises the nuclear reserve, told Reuters, the familiar sources with the matter on Friday.
But those layoffs have been “partially rescinded” to retain essential nuclear security workers, said one of the sources. It was not clear how many of the 325 shots were terminated.
Other 2,300 employees were eliminated from the Department of the Interior, which manages 500 million public land acres, including more than 60 national parks, as well as oil and gas lease programs on the country, the sources told Reuters.
An unknown number of workers in the Department of Agriculture was also shown, the sources said.
The centers for disease control and prevention are reducing almost 1,300 workers, or one third of their staff, Associated Press reported.
The shots were added to a round of cuts that have directed departments, including veterans, education and small businesses administration.
Officials of the Office of Personnel Management, which supervises federal hiring, met with the agencies on Thursday, advising them to fire their recently hired employees who lacked complete labor protections, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The speed and amplitude of Musk’s effort has produced a growing frustration among some of Trump’s assistants due to lack of coordination, including the White House Cabinet Chief, Susie Wiles, sources told Reuters.
The demands challenge musk
In addition to labor reductions, Trump and Musk have tried to destroy civil service protections for race employees, freeze most foreign aid in the United States and have tried to close some government agencies such as the International Development Agency and the CFPB almost completely.
The unions that represent federal workers have sued to block the purchase plan.
Three federal judges who supervise the cases of privacy against doge will consider on Friday if the Musk team must have access to the payment systems of the Treasury Department and potentially confidential data in the health agencies, consumer protection and labor of the labor of the USA.
Musk has sent Doge members to at least 16 government agencies, where they have obtained access to computer systems with financial personnel and information, and have sent workers home.
The Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury has launched an audit of the security controls of the payment system, according to a letter sent in response to a application of Democratic legislators.
