Tag: Layoffs and Job Reductions

Trump Pivots Toward Putin, and R.F.K. Jr. Says ‘Nothing’ Is Off Limits

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Judge Declines to Block Musk Team’s Foray Into Federal Agencies

A federal judge in Washington gave President Trump a victory for now when she declined on Tuesday to bar Elon Musk and his associates from ordering mass firings or having access to data at seven federal agencies. The judge, Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court, wrote that a coalition of 14 state attorneys […]

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Courts Force a Window Into Musk’s Secretive Unit

When President Trump signed an order imbuing the so-called Department of Government Efficiency with even more power over the federal work force, Elon Musk was there, championing the work as an exercise in transparency. “All of our actions are maximally transparent,” Mr. Musk said last week, standing in the Oval Office. “In fact, I don’t […]

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JFK Library in Boston Temporarily Closed After DOGE Cuts, Kennedy Family Says

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was abruptly closed to visitors on Tuesday, and the federal agency that operates the site did not provide any explanation for the sudden disruption. Members of the Kennedy family said that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency had fired members of the library’s staff, […]

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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders

The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal scientists, doctors and public health professionals: Your work is no longer needed. At the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s premier biomedical research agency, an estimated 1,200 employees — including promising young investigators slated for larger roles — have been dismissed. At the Centers […]

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Southwest Airlines Plans to Cut 15% of Its Work Force

Southwest Airlines on Monday announced plans to cut 15 percent of its work force, the first round of broad layoffs in the airline’s 53-year history. The company said it planned to cut about 1,750 jobs, with the cuts mostly focused on corporate positions. The layoffs will include 11 senior leaders with titles of vice president […]

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Layoffs Expand at Federal Agencies, Part of Trump Purge

The Trump administration accelerated plans for widespread work force cuts across the government on Friday, as employees at multiple federal agencies learned they would be losing their jobs. Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department were the latest to be hit with layoffs as President Trump and a team led by […]

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Trump Cracks Down on Diversity Initiatives Celebrated in His First Term

During President Trump’s first term, employees at the Education Department would regularly be reminded of the value of a diverse workplace from their highest-ranking leaders. Orientation presentations for new employees devoted more than half a dozen slides to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, and encouraged new hires to join affinity groups, become “diversity and inclusion […]

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Trump Officials Escalate Layoffs, Targeting Most of 200,000 Workers on Probation

Layoffs cascaded through the federal government on Thursday after its human resources division advised agencies to terminate most of an estimated 200,000 workers on probation, a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s drive to overhaul and shrink the federal work force. Among the largest layoffs reported on Thursday was one announced by the Department of […]

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Legal Roadblocks Slow Trump’s Removal of Federal Employees

The one-sentence email from the White House arrived in Cathy Harris’s inbox at 10:49 p.m. Monday, startling her when she woke up and read it early the next morning. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Merit Systems Protection Board is terminated, effective immediately,” […]

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USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise

When Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month that lifesaving humanitarian work would be exempt from a freeze on foreign aid, global health workers breathed a collective sigh of relief. But a new directive has put such exemptions on hold. Several senior employees at the U.S.A.I.D. Bureau of Global Health received an email Tuesday […]

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Trump’s Resignation Program for Federal Workers Can Proceed, Judge Rules

A federal judge said Wednesday that the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program for federal workers could proceed, allowing the White House to move forward with a key part of its plan to reduce the federal work force by encouraging mass buyouts. Judge George A. O’Toole Jr., a U.S. District Court judge in the District of […]

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Trump Orders Plans for ‘Large Scale’ Work Force Cuts and Expands Musk’s Power

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing agency officials to draw up plans for “large scale” cuts to the federal work force and further empowered the billionaire Elon Musk and his team to approve which career officials are hired in the future. The order gives the so-called Department of Government Efficiency vast reach […]

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Court Halt on Trump Cuts for Medical Research Is Extended Nationwide

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to hold off on a plan that would cut $4 billion in federal funding for research at the nation’s universities, cancer centers and hospitals. The funds disbursed by the National Institutes of Health cover the administrative and overhead costs for a vast swath of biomedical research, some of […]

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With Aid Cutoff, Trump Severs a Lifeline for Millions

Funds from the world’s richest nation once flowed from the largest global aid agency to an intricate network of small, medium and large organizations that delivered aid: H.I.V. medications for more than 20 million people; nutrition supplements for starving children; support for refugees, orphaned children and women battered by violence. Now, that network is unraveling. […]

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U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for the Worst

The thousands of people who work for the U.S. government’s main agency for humanitarian aid and disaster relief have been on the front lines of efforts to fight famine, contain virulent infectious diseases like H.I.V. and Ebola, and rebuild infrastructure in impoverished and war-torn countries. On Friday evening, just hours before the vast majority of […]

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How Many Federal Worker Resignations Would Be a Lot?

When the federal Office of Personnel Management first proposed a “deferred resignation” package to induce federal workers to quit last week, Elon Musk circulated an estimate that the offer could lure 5 to 10 percent of the government’s work force to leave. That estimate so far looks like an overshoot. By midday Friday, with the […]

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Trump Directly Calls for Closure of USAID

President Trump on Friday directly called for the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development just hours before most of its staff were expected to be suspended with pay or laid off, the latest sign that his administration will dissolve the government’s main provider of global humanitarian and development aid. “CLOSE IT DOWN!” Mr. […]

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Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Employees and Scale Back Exhibitions

The Brooklyn Museum said Friday that it would soon cut more than 40 employees — between 10 and 13 percent of its work force — to alleviate the pressures of a financial deficit that is projected to reach $10 million by the end of its fiscal year in June. Anne Pasternak, the museum’s director, said […]

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Jobs Report Today Will Offer First Look at 2025 Labor Market

A Labor Department report on Friday is expected to show another solid month of job growth to start 2025, despite routine but larger-than-usual annual revisions. The median estimate among economists surveyed by Bloomberg pegs growth at 175,000 jobs in January, which would be in line with the average over the preceding quarter — although the […]

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Trump Administration to Lay Off Nearly All of USAID Staff

The Trump administration plans to reduce the number of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development from more than 10,000 to about 290 positions, three people with knowledge of the plans said on Thursday. The small remaining staff includes employees who specialize in health and humanitarian assistance, the people said, speaking on the condition […]

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Trump Administration Deepens Pressure on Federal Workers to Resign

President Trump’s administration deepened its pressure campaign on government employees to resign before a Thursday deadline, rattling and angering a civil service steeling itself for a prolonged battle with Elon Musk and his ongoing foray into the federal bureaucracy. With hours dwindling for workers to decide whether or not to quit, agency officials held last-minute […]

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Trump Officials to Put Almost All U.S.A.I.D. Workers on Leave

Nearly the entire global work force of the main American aid agency, known as U.S.A.I.D., will be put on leave by the end of Friday, according to an official memo the agency posted online Tuesday night. The notice said only a small subset of “designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated […]

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Musk Team Scrutinizes Education Department Operations

Officials with the Education Department told employees in the civil rights office on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team was scrutinizing the department’s operations, which could lead to further staff reductions. In an all-hands call with the employees in the department’s Office of Civil Rights on Tuesday, Craig Trainor, the office’s acting assistant secretary, signaled […]

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Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’

The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time. An email, reviewed by The New York Times, was sent to staff members who were hired within the past year and […]

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Why Is This C.E.O. Bragging About Replacing Humans With A.I.?

Ask typical corporate executives about their goals in adopting artificial intelligence, and they will most likely make vague pronouncements about how the technology will help employees enjoy more satisfying careers, or create as many opportunities as it eliminates. A.I. will “help tackle the kind of tasks most people find repetitive, which frees up employees to […]

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Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I.

The Education Department placed dozens of employees on administrative leave on Friday, citing guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, which had directed agencies to submit plans for shedding staff associated with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by the end of the day. In letters obtained by The New York Times, the department notified affected […]

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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid

Lifesaving health initiatives and medical research projects have shut down around the world in response to the Trump administration’s 90-day pause on foreign aid and stop-work orders. In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children, […]

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Beneath Trump’s Chaotic Spending Freeze: An Idea That Crosses Party Lines

When President Trump said on Wednesday that his order to freeze federal spending was about “scams, dishonesty, waste and abuse,” he was echoing promises made by his predecessors in both parties. Yes, the memo was a sweeping attempt to remake what he calls a “woke” government in his image. Yes, it was part of his […]

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices. Days earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with President Trump’s new administration. As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives in the workplace — something […]

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