Here are all the federal agencies where workers are being fired

ABC News ^ | February 21, 2025 | Julia Reinstein

[DoodleBob]

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Department of Education

Dozens of "probationary employees" were let go

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Department of Homeland Security

More than 400 employees … About half of the cuts were in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which saw over 200 dismissed.

Additionally, 12 Coast Guard members who work on diversity, equity and inclusion were affected by the reduction in force, with an offer to support border security efforts at the southwestern border.

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Department of Energy

Roughly 2,000 people have been fired

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United States Agency for International Development

..more than 10,000 staffers have been placed on leave,

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

… plan to gut the 1,700-employee consumer watchdog agency.

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Department of Veterans Affairs

More than 1,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees have been dismissed from their roles,

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Environmental Protection Agency

.. fired 388 probationary employees…Another 171 staffers are now on administrative leave from the EPA teams responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental justice.

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Department of Health and Human Services

…also lost thousands of employees,

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Department of the Interior

About 2,300 people have been fired

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Office of Personnel Management

About 200 probationary employees were told they were being fired

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General Services Administration

The General Services Administration has also had its staff reduced, with Reuters reporting more than 100 people were laid off.

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Small Business Administration

About 720 employees at the Small Business Administration have lost their jobs,

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service began laying off more than 6,000 new and newly-promoted employees across the country on Feb. 20, sources familiar with the planning told ABC News.

These layoffs, impacting roughly 6-7% of the agency's 100,000-person workforce,

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Department of Defense

The Pentagon announced on Feb. 21 that it will "release" some 5,400 civilian probationary workers

[BobL]

They forgot to give the numbers for the News Networks and the Zeepers.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It is not enough. People at USAID and the IRS need to be prosecuted and put in prison for what they have done.

[LouAvul]

Note to trolls/lurkers/brainwashed: American bureaucracy's Redundancy has redundancy. Half of govt bureaucracy a)has no purpose and b) produces nothing.

That's a descriptor of socialism, and we're not socialist. We're capitalist. Liberals just can't understand that distinction.

[AbolishCSEU]

It’s a good start. Keep going.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think that right now the focus is on reducing the size of the federal workforce. Basically: waste, fraud and abuse.

At some point the focus will shift just a bit and be on the size of budgets. There is an awful lot of bloat — once budgets are seriously downsized to avoid the bloat, there will be additional layoffs for budgetary reasons, not (strictly speaking) for waste, fraud, and abuse.

[BikerJoe]

For the most part, it seems like these reductions have actually been targeted to some of the more useless jobs.

My concerns are: 1) Gutting things that actually need doing, and 2) Getting rid of a probationary employee that is actually 10 times better than the career people in a department.

[Tom Tetroxide]

These firings are yuuuuuuge!

[fruser1]

And how many lost their jobs during covid?

Or when their business got burned out by blm and antifa?

[datricker]

I think for the first time ever, at least in my life, government is getting smaller, even if it’s a small amount. Keep cutting!

[9YearLurker]

No intel agencies?

[subterfuge]

Seems to me Biden’s handlers were on a major hiring spree his last year in office. Not to mention “parking” billions of dollars here and there for other nefarious reasons.

[V_TWIN]

I see a lot of “probationary” were cut loose.....makes perfect sense.

Last in, first out.

Then assess the permanent employees and see who is needed and who isn’t.

[EQAndyBuzz]

The math is simple. The number of fired employees time $100k is how much 2026 savings will be. Looks like $10 billion. It’s a start.

[Jane Long]

ABC haz a sad.

[shelterguy]

“””Then assess the permanent employees and see who is needed and who isn’t.”””

I think making them show up to work everyday will make a lot of them quit.

[wardamneagle]

All the attention from the main stream media on firings. Biden, Obama, Clinton did the same thing and not a peep.

[SMARTY]

Right...’permanent employees’ likely involved with hiring and keeping probationary staff

[napscoordinator]

So where does the unemployment money come from? They are federal workers so the federal budget?

[V_TWIN]

I heard Kash Patel told his people to “pause” responding to Elon’s job justification email.

I have very little criticism of him but that seemed a little heavy handed to me......not all federal agencies are equal and should be treated as such.