WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Friday continued its mass firing of thousands of probationary federal employees in an attempt to remove workers recently hired under the Biden administration and to cull the federal workforce.
President Donald Trump wants to shrink the federal government’s 2.4 million-person workforce, and the targeting of roughly 220,000 probationary employees is the easiest route, as relatively few federal employees accepted an earlier resignation offer pushed by Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk.
Those probationary workers are either newly hired, or have worked in the federal government for decades and started a new role that subjects them to a probationary status of one to two years.
It’s the latest attempt by the Trump administration to decimate federal agencies and the workforce following the halting of work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Media reports of federal agencies that fired employees within the probationary window include the Department of Education, General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Forest Service, Veterans Affairs, National Nuclear Security Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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