Trump administration moves to more easily fire some agency employees: Reuters
- President Donald Trump's administration is reclassifying federal workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Energy to make it easier to fire them, as reported by Reuters.
- The reclassification is enabled by an executive order signed by Trump on his first day, which creates a new worker category that can be terminated without cause according to the report.
- Federal judges have issued around 15 major injunctions against Trump's actions, which is more than previous presidents faced, according to court reports.
- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich condemned the judiciary's actions against Trump, labeling it a 'judicial coup d'etat' during testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee.
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Adversaries attempting to recruit laid-off government workers as spies: Intelligence
Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China are targeting government workers who have been laid off amid the Trump administration’s attempt to downsize to recruit as spies, according to new intelligence. “New intelligence indicates agents from China, Russia, and other countries have set their sights on recently fired probationary workers, or those with security clearances, hoping to obtai…
HHS staff to brief House committee on mass firings as other changes are made to department
HHS laid off approximately 10,000 employees as part of its latest restructuring on Tuesday, which comes as the Trump administration works to reorganize the whole government workforce.
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