🏛 How Many Federal Employees Have Been Fired and Laid Off: What We Know
- NBC News4 Washington. Here's a tally of how many thousands of federal workers' jobs have been cut in the D.C. area and across the U.S. The Associated Press • Updated Feb. 19, 2025.
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Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump's administration as the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency fire both new and career workers, tell agency leaders to plan for “large-scale reductions in force" and freeze trillions of dollars in federal grant funds.
It is affecting more than just the national capital region, home to about 20% of the 2.4 million members of the civilian federal workforce, which does not include military personnel and postal workers. More than 80% of that workforce lives outside the Washington area. There is no official figure available of the total firings or layoffs. The Associated Press tallied how agencies are being affected based on AP reporting and statements from lawmakers and employee unions.
Here is a look at some of the broad and specific ways federal agencies and employees are being affected by the administration's reductions, as of Wednesday: ‘Deferred resignation’ proposal for federal workers. The White House offered a “deferred resignation” proposal in exchange for financial incentives, like months of paid leave, to almost all federal employees who opted to leave their jobs by Feb. 6. But just before that deadline, a federal judge blocked Trump’s plan, wanting to hear arguments from the administration and the labor unions, which said the offer was illegal.
According to the Office of Personnel Management, about 75,000 federal employees had accepted the offer as of Feb. 12. Probationary employee layoffs. There have also been wide-ranging layoffs of probationary employees — those generally on the job for less than a year and who have yet to gain civil service protection. Potentially hundreds of thousands are affected. On Feb. 13, the administration ordered agencies to lay off nearly all such workers. According to govt. data maintained by OPM, 220,000 federal employees had less than a year on the job as of March 2024... - Read More,
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/how-many-federal-employees-have-been-fired-and-laid-off-what-we-know/3847944/
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Federal workers are turning to D.C. restaurant jobs, Axios, Feb. 21, 2025,
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/02/21/federal-worker-layoffs-dc-jobs-restaurants
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