The ax that Donald Trump has sharpened for Elon Musk already ravages in the body of officials of the United States. Since the president signed on Tuesday the Executive Order expanding the powers of the so -called Efficiency Department in the Government from which the richest man in the world intends to cut the expenditure and size of the government have beennantensified the layoffs of public employees.
A Personnel Management Office Order on Thursday urged all agencies and departments DEscape to almost all employees who had recently been hiredthat they have not yet won all the protections of the civil service and that are currently more than 200,000, almost 10% of the 2.3 million officials. In several agencies they were received notices that mass cuts are coming and not only of the recent hired.
No exact data How many layoffs have already occurred from those “probation officials” but there is specific information of several agencies. On the same Thursday, for example, they were announced More than 1,000 layoffs in the veterans department. This Friday there was 2,300 in the Department of Interior. And there is news of tens or hundreds of more layoffs, already made or imminent, in Hacienda, just when you are about to enter the tax season); in the Department of Agriculture, Education and energy; in the Administration of small businesses and general services; in the Disease control and prevention centers and the National Health Institutes and in him FBI. The cuts have even arrived at the Personnel Management Office itself, where together with recent contracted they said goodbye to members of the Communication team already workers with severe disabilities.
“Weeds”
The layoffs of officials with less time in the government arrive after the deadline to benefit from voluntary dismissal with salary until September which offered Musk (although the federal budget is not guaranteed for after March 15), to which they were hosted 75,000 officials. And they arrive according to Musk, in a video intervention at the world governments summit in Dubai on Thursday, he had opted for “Eliminate entire agencies instead of leaving many. ” “If we do not eliminate the roots of the weeds It is easy for them to grow again, ”he said.
Thousands of workers have been fired in LLamadas of OA groups through pre -registered video messagesS, as published by several American media, which have had access to recordings’. In a case, for example, they were summoned at two in the afternoon, It was prevented that there were no union representative, and half an hour later a video was projected where they were informed that their job ended 30 minutes after.
The layoffs have already caused demands in court of unions and complaints. “This administration has abused the trial period to carry out a wave of mass layoffs politically motivatedputting employees not for their performance, but because they were hired before Trump came to office, ”said Everett Kelley, president of the US Government Employee Federation, in a statement. “They are dismissals that They seek to dismantle the federal government y Force agencies to submission to a radical agenda that gives priority to friendism about competition “.
