The campaign of President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk to radically reduce the American bureaucracy spread on Friday, dismissed more than 9,500 workers who managed everything, from the management of federal land to care for military vertensive.
Workers of the interior, energy, veterans, agriculture and health and social services have made their jobs fire in a campaign that has been largely – but not exclusively – Probation employees targeted during their first year on work that has less employment protection.
Dismissals, reported by Reuters And other major American media are added to about 75,000 workers who made a takeover that Trump and Musk proposed to make them leave voluntarily, according to the White House. This is equivalent to around 3% of the civil workforce of 2.3 million people.
Trump says the federal government is too swollen and that too much money is lost by waste and fraud. The government has around 36 billions of dollars of debt and led a deficit of $ 1.8 billion last year, and there is a bipartite agreement on the need for reform.
But the Democrats of the Congress say that Trump is encroaching on the constitutional authority of the Legislative Assembly on federal spending, even if his republican colleagues who control majorities in the two chambers of the Congress have largely supported the measures.
The speed and extent of Musk’s efforts caused growing frustration among some of Trump’s assistants concerning a lack of coordination, including the chief of staff of the White House Susie Wiles, said sources Reuters.
In addition to job discounts, Trump and Musk tried to empty civil service protections for career employees, mostly frozen.
Almost half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Probation employees in the United States and others at the National Institutes of Health are forced to get out, from familiar sources with the job cuts told Reuters.
The US Forest Service takes around 3,400 recent hires, while the National Park Service finishes approximately 1,000, according to the plans, plans said on Friday.
The Internal Internal Tax collection service is preparing to dismiss thousands of workers next week, two people familiar with the case said that a decision that could lead to resources before the deadline of the Americans on April 15 for Produce income taxes.
Other expense reductions have raised fears that the vital services are in danger. A month after forest fires devastated Los Angeles, federal programs have ceased to hire seasonal firefighters and interrupted fire risk such as forest dead wood, according to organizations affected by reductions .
Critics have questioned Musk’s Blunt Force approach, the richest person in the world, who has amazed an extraordinary influence in Trump’s presidency.
Friday, the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent raised the shoulders of these concerns, comparing the so-called Ministry of Effectiveness of the Musk government to a financial audit.
“These are serious people, and they go from the agency to the agency, doing an audit, looking for best practices,” he said Fox Business Network.
Musk relies on a coterie of young engineers with little government experience to manage its Doge campaign, and their first cuts seem to be more motivated by the ideology than to reduce costs, according to budget experts.
“Betrayed by my country”
Federal workers have expressed their shock.
“I did a lot for my country and as a veteran who served his country, I feel like I was betrayed by my country,” said Nick Gioia, who served in the army and worked For the Ministry of Defense for a total of 17 years before joining the USDA economic research service in December to be dismissed Thursday evening.
“I don’t have the impression that it has something to do with federal workers, I have the impression that it is only a game,” Gioia, who lives in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and To an epileptic child. “To sit here and look at people like Mr. Musk Tweeter how he feels like he is doing an excellent job, he doesn’t realize what he does in people’s lives.”
Steve Lenkart, Executive Director of the National Federation of Federal Employees Union, which represents more than 100,000 workers, said that it expects Musk, of which SpaceX companies have major contracts with the American federal government, and The Trump administration focuses on agencies that regulate industry and finance.
“That’s really what everything is really,” said Lenkart. “It keeps the government from industry and incredibly rich people, which is why Elon Musk is so excited about it.”
“Partially canceled” nuclear cuts
Certain attempts to dismiss government employees have been hampered by federal judges or second thoughts.
About 1,200 to 2,000 workers from the Ministry of Energy were dismissed, including 325 from the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the nuclear stock, said sources familiar to the case on Friday.
But these layoffs were “partially canceled” to keep the essential nuclear security workers, one of the sources said. We did not know how many 325 shots had been withdrawn.
The administration has temporarily agreed to no longer dismiss staff at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to an order from the court issued on Friday, offering workers a suspended 11th hour before dreaded mass dismissals.
Unions representing federal workers continued to block the buyout plan.
Friday, three federal judges supervising confidentiality affairs against DOGE heard that the Musk team should have access to the payment systems of the Treasury Department and to data potentially sensitive to the health, consumer and work agencies for consumer consumers .
In one of them, a federal judge in New York has extended a temporary prohibition prescription which blocks Doge of access to the systems of the Treasury Department. This order had been in place since Saturday.
