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US government begins wave of mass firings as Trump, Musk purge federal workers
USAID front Reuters ^ | 2/13/25 | Paid USAID stooges at Reuters

Posted on 02/13/2025 5:17:45 PM PST by hardspunned

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. government began firing hundreds of people at multiple agencies on Thursday as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America's federal bureaucracy, union sources and employees familiar with the moves told Reuters. Termination emails have been sent in the past 48 hours to government workers, mostly recently hired employees still on probation, at the Department of Education, the Small Business Administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the General Services Administration, which manages many federal buildings.

It was not immediately clear how many domestic federal workers stood to lose their jobs in the first wave of layoffs. According to government data, about 280,000 civilian government workers were hired less than two years ago with most still on probation, which makes them easier to fire. All probationary staff at the Office of Personnel Management, the human resources arm for the U.S. government, were fired in a group call on Thursday and told to leave the agency's headquarters in Washington, two sources said.

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Reuters reacting to its pink slip from the U.S. taxpayer.
1 posted on 02/13/2025 5:17:45 PM PST by hardspunned
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More winning!


2 posted on 02/13/2025 5:19:43 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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“Musk team member enters IRS, raising fears of cuts at tax collecting agency“

That’s really gonna PO off the American tax payer/voter!

Incredible meltdown from USAID talking heads.


3 posted on 02/13/2025 5:20:35 PM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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4 posted on 02/13/2025 5:25:02 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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280,000 employees on their probationary period? That’s a good start, but the cuts have to run much deeper, especially with totally unnecessary agencies like the Dept of Education. I’ll bet when DOGE really looks around they will find dozens of agencies with overlapping or unnecessary duties.


5 posted on 02/13/2025 5:29:02 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Before you post a nasty, stop and think: "Would that person slap me if I said it in person?" )
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Fire all of chuck schumer’s staff.


6 posted on 02/13/2025 5:38:13 PM PST by wny
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Blood Bath,Scorched Earth...
Utterly Devestated!
Uncle Sugar is being
‘Fundamentally Transformed’ and
ODumbo gets credit-—
Perhaps a cozy Cell.
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You see What I see?


7 posted on 02/13/2025 5:41:58 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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8 posted on 02/13/2025 5:45:05 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Paid USAID stooges at Reuters

Exactly!

9 posted on 02/13/2025 6:01:36 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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In the last year, all new hires are likely DEI hires. Very glad they are gone.


10 posted on 02/13/2025 6:20:29 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Check out;
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DOGEgov.com/DOGECLOCK.

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This Is Brilliant!
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Hat Tip CFP


11 posted on 02/13/2025 6:26:49 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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They are NOT federal “workers”.

They were federal government employees. The last thing they do is actual work, unless it’s to sabotage a Republican president.


12 posted on 02/13/2025 6:57:22 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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will find dozens of agencies with overlapping or unnecessary duties.
 
Exactly what's going to be found - redundancy after redundancy. In personnel, budgets, duties. Everywhere.
 
 

13 posted on 02/13/2025 7:06:30 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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Yup—DEI hires doing personnel/human resources work—the ultimate nightmare of any organization.


14 posted on 02/13/2025 7:08:23 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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betcha Reuters USAID money was shut off, and they are rather upset.


15 posted on 02/13/2025 7:13:47 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Constitutes the majority of jobs created during the Biden administration.


16 posted on 02/13/2025 7:16:26 PM PST by Darth Tokarev
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I feel for those affected and their families. They were counting on this income. However, OBiden created this problem.

These people’s jobs were centered around LIMITING and PREVENTING freedoms and profits. Trump’s “America first” policies work to EXPAND freedoms and profits. There will be far more PRODUCTIVE private sector jobs for people who, you know, want to work.


17 posted on 02/14/2025 4:33:01 AM PST by nagant (PHENOMENON)
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Bye. The law does not guarantee you a job for life. Git over it. Sorry. It happens to us all. Did to me in my first job after I went to work after I retired from the Army. New guy goes first and the old timers git to stay. I got over it and quickly found a new, better, higher paying job, a week later. Too bad, so sad for my old law firm. They went under a year or two later. I went on and worked 14 years in the new job before leaving Seattle and coming back to saneville here in Sweet Home Alabama!!! We have been back here for 18 years in July, after I had been gone for 35 years, I came home to complete my journey which began when I was 18 and went into the Army before the Draft Board could nab me way back in 1970. Dang I am old.


18 posted on 02/14/2025 5:12:13 AM PST by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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280,000 employees on their probationary period? That’s a good start, but the cuts have to run much deeper, especially with totally unnecessary agencies like the Dept of Education. I’ll bet when DOGE really looks around they will find dozens of agencies with overlapping or unnecessary duties.

This is a purge of personnel hired under the old rules and many are affirmative action hires, but not all. Some will be rehired eventually. At present, three government agencies provide housing loans, HUD, SBA and Agriculture. It may be prudent to consolidate that into a single agency. People looking for disaster assistance may be affected by the reduction in personnel. Trump wants to cut FEMA, but Congress appears not to want that.
19 posted on 02/14/2025 5:36:59 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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0bama’s civilian army is finally being dismantled.


20 posted on 02/14/2025 6:08:42 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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