2025-02-26 19:18:58

White House gives federal agency heads deadline to produce plan for layoffs

Trump’s budget chief and head of personnel management direct bosses to provide detailed plans by 13 MarchUS government agency heads have been given a 13 March deadline to produce a plan for drastically slashing the federal workforce as Donald Trump reinforced warnings that workers who failed to account for what they do could be fired.A White House memo issued on Wednesday directed bosses to provide details of their workforce reduction plans in the most specific instruction yet to managers to cut stuff who are deemed unnecessary or inefficient. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/federal-layoffs-trump

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