They Fucked Up on the Nuke people cutting move….
They ARE trying to get them back……
The Musk/Trump/Project 25 people do NOT KNOW what the Hell they are doing….
Firings of any and ALL Biden hire’s, eh?
Air Traffic Controllers NOW?
No looking before ya leap?
Dept. of Energy Nuke probies Cut’s/ReHires…..
It’s not uncommon for people, even on Capitol Hill, to be confused about what the Department of Energy does. It has nothing to do with oil drilling, for example. Rather, the agency, among other thing, oversees the United States’ nuclear weapons program and nuclear security policies.
With this in mind, it’s hard to not to feel some anxiety about the recent moves from Donald Trump and the president’s team related to the agency….
There were some reports a couple of weeks ago, for example, about Elon Musk’s quasi-governmental DOGE and its representatives gaining access to sensitive information at the Department of Energy. Soon after, there were related accounts about counterintelligence officials at the agency issuing internal warnings about DODE personnel and their access to secure DOE facilities.
It was against this backdrop that the Trump administration apparently thought it’d be a good idea to fire a sizable group of Department of Energy workers — including some who worked at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
And then, as NBC News reported, it apparently occurred to Team Trump that this probably wasn’t a good idea.
National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated — but they struggled to find them because they didn’t have their new contact information. In an email sent to employees at NNSA and obtained by NBC News, officials wrote, “The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel.”
Evidently, when the Trump administration carelessly fired these employees, they were no longer able to access their DOE email accounts, and National Nuclear Security Administration didn’t have their personal email accounts on file.
As such, the department wanted to bring these ousted officials back, but it didn’t know how best to alert the fired workers that their services — which include designing, building and overseeing the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile — are still needed.
As for why they were fired in the first place, CNN reported that Trump administration officials did not “realize” that these employees oversee the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
FAA and Air Traffic Controlers Probies Cut’s….
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.
The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in a brief statement Monday it was “analyzing the effect of the reported federal employee terminations on aviation safety, the national airspace system and our members.”….
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The firings hit the FAA when it faces a shortfall in controllers. Federal officials have been raising concerns about an overtaxed and understaffed air traffic control system for years, especially after a series of close calls between planes at U.S. airports. Among the reasons they have cited for staffing shortages are uncompetitive pay, long shifts, intensive training and mandatory retirements….
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