The decision comes after #VeteransAffairs Secy Douglas A. Collins, under political pressure from #Congress, backed away from a plan to slash 15% of the agency’s workforce through #MassFirings. Instead, the #VA lost almost 30k employees this year from buyout offers & attrition.
The agency hopes that the cuts will reduce the #healthcare workforce to as little as 372k employees, a 10% reduction from last year, acc/to a memo shared with regional leaders last month….
Illston has said she believes the evidence will ultimately show the #MassFirings were #illegal & in excess of authority.
The #Trump admin has slashed #jobs in #education, #health & other areas it says are favored by #Democrats. The admin has also said it will not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through #SNAP flowing into November.
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
A spox for the #OMB said the reductions are “substantial” but did not offer more immediate details.
The #Education Dept is among the agencies hit by new #layoffs, a dept spox said Friday without providing more details. The dept had ~4,100 employees when #Trump took office in January, but its workforce was nearly halved amid #MassFirings in the admin’s first months. At the start of the shutdown, it had ~2,500 employees.
#law #labor #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState
#Trump begins #firings of #FederalWorkers to pressure #Democrats in government #shutdown
The White House budget office said Friday that #MassFirings of federal workers have started to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing govt #shutdown.
#OMB dir #RussVought, posted on social media that the “RIFs have begun,” referring to reduction-in-force firings.
#law #labor #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-federal-worker-firings-0439e8d0979d9a32e021c5c851fea1cf?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-10-Breaking+News
Mass firings of federal workers have begun. That was the announcement Friday from the White House as Republicans worked to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers to end the government shutdown. In a court filing, the budget office said well over 4,000 employees would be fired, though it noted that the funding situation was “fluid and rapidly evolving.” Democrats blasted the move as unions for federal workers quickly took the matter to court. President Donald Trump said of firings, “it'll be a lot,” and he suggested that those losing their jobs would be in areas that were “Democrat oriented.”
Now, as the #government heads toward a #shutdown when #federal #funding lapses on Tuesday, #RussVought, 49, is leveraging the moment to further advance his goals of slashing agencies & purging employees, with his office telling agencies to prepare for #MassFirings unless #Congress can strike a deal to keep the government open.
#Project2025 #Trump #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
Previous #ShadowDocket rulings have backed #Trump on, among other matters, #deportations of #immigrants to countries other than their own [#rendition], revoking temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants, banning #transgender people from the #military, pursuing #MassFirings of #FederalWorkers & removing various #FederalAgency leaders.
#law #judiciary #SCOTUS #Constitution #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
Heather Cox Richardson’s article warns that the Trump administration’s budget freezes, mass firings, agency takeovers, and intimidation of public servants are not about efficiency but about dismantling institutions, silencing experts, and consolidating authoritarian control.
#massfirings #intimidation #authoritarian #oppression
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-27-2025?r=1if9uq&utm_medium=ios
In split decision, #court clears #Trump to restart #CFPB #MassFirings
A divided federal appeals court Friday found Trump should be able to resume mass firings at the #Consumer #Financial #Protection Bureau, ruling a lower court lacked jurisdiction in temporarily blocking it…
However, the court said its decision would not take immediate effect, allowing lawyers for CFPB workers & pro-consumer orgs to seek reconsideration by the full Circuit Court of Appeals for DC.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/split-decision-federal-appeals-court-removes-barrier-mass-firings-cfpb-2025-08-15/
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