It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.
“Lives are being put in danger,” one meteorologist warned, as some experts feared the cuts will harm public safety.
An email was sent to staff members outlining the offer, but it quickly disappeared from employee inboxes, creating more confusion.
Tucked away near the White House is a tribute to the environmental agency and its history — for the time being, anyway.
A federal judge in California ordered the retraction of the memos. He suggested, but did not order, that the layoffs be stopped.
Democrats said a review mandated by executive order was “not a serious effort or attempt at reform.”
Federal officials circulated a memo asking agency leaders to plan even more job reductions after thousands of federal workers were fired in recent weeks.
Workers at a handful of agencies have begun receiving notifications that they are part of the “reduction in force” directed by the president, after a wave of firings that targeted probationary workers.
The near misses on Tuesday came after a string of aviation disasters, including the midair collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet last month that killed 67 people.
Ms. Gleason is the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, according to a White House official. The news comes as a federal judge questioned who was leading the operation.