The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, the nation's largest employer, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection 바카라 게임 웹사이트� potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.In addition, workers at some agencies were warned that large workplace cuts would be coming.The decision on probationary workers, who generally have less than a year on the job, came from the Office of Personnel Management, which serves as a human resources department for the federal government. The notification was confirmed by a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.Even workers in the personnel office itself were not immune: Dozens of probationary employees at OPM were told on a Thursday afternoon group call that they were being dismissed and then instructed to leave the building within a half-hour, according to another person who likewise spoke on condition of anonymity.It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s expected to be the first step in sweeping layoffs. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that told agency leaders to plan for 바카라 게임 웹사이트�large-scale reductions in force.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Elon Musk, whom President Trump has given wide leeway to slash government spending with his Department of Government Efficiency, called Thursday for the elimination of whole agencies.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leave a lot of them behind,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Musk said via a videocall to the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�If we don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t remove the roots of the weed, then it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s easy for the weed to grow back.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees representing federal workers, said the administration 바카라 게임 웹사이트�abused바카라 게임 웹사이트� the probation status of workers 바카라 게임 웹사이트�to conduct a politically driven mass firing spree, targeting employees not because of performance, but because they were hired before Trump took office.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Thursday's order was an expansion of previous directions from OPM, which told agencies earlier this week that probationary employees should be fired if they weren바카라 게임 웹사이트�t meeting high standards. It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s not clear how many workers are currently in a probationary period. According to government data maintained by OPM, as of March 2024, 220,000 workers had less than a year on the job 바카라 게임 웹사이트� the most recent data available.The firing of probationary employees began earlier this week and has included the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Education workers.At least 39 were fired from the Education Department on Wednesday, according to a union that represents agency workers, including civil rights workers, special education specialists and student aid officials.The layoffs also hit Department of Veterans Affairs researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday.Murray said in a statement that she heard from VA researchers in her state who were told to stop their research immediately, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�not because their work isn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t desperately needed, but because Trump and Elon have decided to fire these researchers on a whim.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that defends government workers, said the Agriculture Department바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Food Safety and Inspection Service would be hit especially hard by laying off probationary employees because it has trouble recruiting inspectors required to be present at all times at most slaughterhouses.The civilian federal workforce, not including military personnel and postal workers, is made up of about 2.4 million people. While about 20% of the workers are in Washington D.C., and the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia, more than 80% live outside the Capitol region.Layoffs are unlikely to yield significant deficit savings. When the Congressional Budget Office looked at the issue, it found the government spent $271 billion annually compensating civilian federal workers, with about 60% of that total going to workers employed by the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.The government could, in theory, cut all those workers and still run a deficit of over $1 trillion that would continue to grow as tax revenues are needed to keep up with the growing costs of Social Security and Medicare.Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said firing employees on probation is flawed because it targets younger workers.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Baby Boomers are retiring right and left, so actually the people you want to keep are probably most of the people who are right now on probation," said Kamarck, who worked in former President Bill Clinton바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Democratic administration when about 426,000 federal jobs were cut over more than eight years in a deliberative effort aimed at reinventing government. "They바카라 게임 웹사이트�re younger and presumably have better skills, and that바카라 게임 웹사이트�s who you want."Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s initial attempt to downsize the workforce was the deferred resignation program, commonly described as a buyout, which offered to pay people until Sept. 30 if they agreed to quit. The White House said 75,000 people signed up, and a federal judge cleared a legal roadblock for the program Wednesday.However, the number of workers who took the offer was less than the administration바카라 게임 웹사이트�s target, and Trump has made it clear he would take further steps.Employees at the National Science Foundation and Housing and Urban Development Department were told this week that large reductions, in some cases a halving of the workforce, would be coming, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.The order Trump signed Tuesday stipulated that government functions not required by law would be prioritized for cuts and hiring will be restricted. With exceptions for functions such as public safety, only one employee can be added for every four that leave. In addition, new hires would generally need approval from a representative of the DOGE, expanding the influence of Musk바카라 게임 웹사이트�s team.Trump has praised Musk바카라 게임 웹사이트�s work to slash federal spending.The Republican president has also been sharply critical of federal workers, especially those who want to keep working remotely, though his administration is simultaneously working to cut federal office space and ordering the termination of worksite leases throughout the government.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Nobody is gonna work from home,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump said Monday. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�They are gonna be going out, they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re gonna play tennis, they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re gonna play golf, they바카라 게임 웹사이트�re gonna do a lot of things. They바카라 게임 웹사이트�re not working.바카라 게임 웹사이트�___Price reported from New York. Associated Press writers Will Weissert, Lisa Mascaro, Josh Boak and Collin Binkley in Washington; Carla Johnson in Seattle; Brian Witte in Annapolis, Maryland; and JoNel Aleccia in Los Angeles contributed to this report.