President Trump said the head of the EPA is prepared to implement deep staffing and spending cuts as part of the administration's efforts to downsize the executive branch.
The Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies have been instructed to implement more mass firings, a memo from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personn | The federal government must complete plans to fire even more workers and close down offices.
Nominees for OMB, DHS told Senators that the firing of probationary employees is part of the need to right-size the federal workforce.
Trump demands plans for large-scale layoffs of federal employees, says US 'has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run'
One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and data.