The Trump Administration fired more than 400 Department of Homeland Security employees Friday evening.
CBS News reported:
The Trump administration on Friday moved to fire more than 400 employees at the Department of Homeland Security, the latest effort in a government-wide campaign to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.
Officials at DHS said they had fired hundreds of employees across several of its agencies after supervisors identified “non-mission critical personnel in probationary status” within the nation’s top cybersecurity agency, known as CISA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which administers the nation’s legal immigration system, among others.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are making sweeping cuts and reform across the federal government to eliminate egregious waste and incompetence that has been happening for decades at the expense of the American taxpayer,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
McLaughlin said the personnel cuts will result in roughly $50 million in savings, and be “incalculably valuable” to the administration’s efforts to cut red tape, adding that the department is “actively identifying other wasteful positions and offices that do not do not fulfill DHS’ mission.”
Earlier Friday, the Trump administration executed one of the largest workforce reductions in federal history, terminating over 200,000 probationary employees across various government agencies.
According to the latest data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), there were approximately 220,000 federal workers who had not yet completed their probationary period as of March 2024.
Trump officials told CNN that the layoffs, which are being called sweeping “Reductions in Force,” are expected to begin shortly after the Thursday deadline that the Office of Personnel Management set for workers to accept the resignation package.
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