The Trump administration is pushing for unprecedented cuts to the federal workforce, asking agencies to identify hundreds of thousands of potential cuts by mid-March. Union leaders express fear that these reductions will disproportionately impact vulnerable workers, including veterans. The initiative follows funding freezes and increases in firings and administrative leave among federal employees. Critics, including progressive thinktank leaders, allege that the administration's tactics aim to undermine essential public services, highlighting the dangers these cuts pose to social programs that help American citizens fulfill their basic needs.
Trade union leaders expressed alarm. Hundreds of thousands of people, including hundreds of thousands of military veterans who are part of the federal workforce will be kicked to the curb.
There are so many agencies that are already understaffed and struggling, and there's only two possible outcomes: They'll either be privatized, or the programs will simply cease to exist.
Lindsay Owens argued Trump and Musk are waging a war against your local postal workers, park rangers and Head Start teachers.
The Trump administration's latest memo demands plans for hundreds of thousands of workforce cuts, citing functions not mandated by statute as justifications.
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