I kinda looked around and am VERY surprised at the ACTUAL number of workers fired/laid-off and NO asked to return is a about 100,000 vs 2.3 Million in total workers …
That is sightly LESS THAN 5% of the total work force…..
(The numbers are in flux)
Every worker fired IS a bad situation for them….
Some where brought back..Some will find jobs in companies /states that DEAL with their very former depatments and agencies…Some cuts NEVER happened
But on the whole?
The Trump/Musk cut are actually just in bucket of the several million Federal Government workers….
The savings are probably miniscle in a governmet that has $6.75 Trillion in spending….
U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are undertaking a sweeping campaign to slash the size of the 2.3 million-strong civilian federal workforce, firing or offering buyouts so far to more than 100,000 employees.
The layoffs to date have primarily been aimed at workers who have been in their current jobs for less than a year and have fewer job protections than longer-tenured staffers. But a new wave of cuts targeting career government workers has begun and will intensify after Trump ordered federal agencies on February 26 to undertake large-scale layoffs.
The Trump administration has yet to give a total number for how many people it has fired.
Here are details on some of the layoffs at federal departments and agencies gleaned by Reuters reporters so far….
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A New York Times play by play on the evolving Trump Admin Federal Agencies work force changes…
Even as the Trump administration continues to slash federal jobs, a number of federal agencies have begun to reverse course — reinstating some workers and pausing plans to dismiss others, sometimes within days of the firings….
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The back-and-forth and lack of transparency surrounding the administration’s cost-cutting moves have deepened the confusion and alarm of workers across the federal government at large, many of whom also have to interpret confusing email guidance and gauge the veracity of various circulating rumors.
“The layoffs and then rehires undermine the productivity and confidence not only of the people who left and came back but of the people who stayed,” said Stephen Goldsmith, an urban policy professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a former mayor of Indianapolis…
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