President Donald Trump's campaign and his advisor Elon Musk to radically reduce the American bureaucracy extended on Friday, firing more than 9,500 workers who managed everything, from federal land management to the care of military veterans.
The workers of the interior departments, energy, veteran issues, agriculture and health and human services had their employment ended in an impulse that until now has a large extent, but not exclusively, to probation employees directed in their first year at work that have less labor protections.
The shots, reported by Reuters And other important American media, add up 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 Government has about $ 36 billion of debt and had a deficit of $ 1.8 billion 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.
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, Fuentes said. Reuters.
In addition to labor reductions, Trump and Musk have tried to destroy civil service protections for career employees, frozen most of the foreign help in the United States and tried to close some government agencies, such as the International Development Agency for the International Development of the International Development of The United States and the Consumer Financial Protection Office, CFPB almost entirely.
Almost half of the test workers in the US disease control and prevention centers in the National Health Institutes are being expelled, sources familiar with job cuts said. Reuters.
The United States forest service is shooting around 3,400 recent hiring, while the National Parks Service is finishing around 1,000, people familiar with the plans said on Friday.
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.
Other expense cuts have expressed concern that vital services were in danger. A month after forest fires devastated Los Angeles, federal programs have stopped hiring seasonal firefighters and stopped the elimination of fire risks, such as dead wood from forests, according to organizations affected by reductions.
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 Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, shrugged on Friday of those concerns, comparing the so -called Musk government efficiency department with a financial audit.
“These are serious people, and go from one agency to another, making an audit, looking for best practices,” he told Fox Business Network.
Musk depends on a clique of young engineers with little experience in the government to manage their Doge campaign, and its first cuts seem to be driven more by ideology than to reduce costs, budget experts say.
'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'
Some attempts to fire government employees have been prevented by federal judges or seconds thoughts.
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 removed.
The Administration has temporarily agreed not to fire more personnel in the US consumer financial protection office. .
The unions that represent federal workers have sued to block the purchase plan.
Three federal judges who supervise the cases of privacy against Doge heard cases on Friday if the Musk team should have access to the payment systems of the treasury department and potentially confidential data in the health agencies, consumer protection and labor of The United States.
In one of them, a federal judge in New York extended a temporary restriction order that blocked JEGE to access the systems of the Treasury. That order had been in force since Saturday.
