{"id":33441,"date":"2025-02-15T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/doge-lays-off-3600-probationary-hhs-employees-but-retains-4000\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:00:41","slug":"doge-lays-off-3600-probationary-hhs-employees-but-retains-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/doge-lays-off-3600-probationary-hhs-employees-but-retains-4000\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE lays off 3,600 probationary HHS employees \u2013 but retains 4,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX<\/strong>: The Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> terminated employment for 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services employees on Friday \u2014 but went through a careful process to exclude those who were serving in specialized or critical roles. \u00a0<\/p>\n

More than half of the agency\u2019s probationary employees were retained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cuts are estimated to save about $600 million in taxpayer dollars annually.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DOGE SAYS IT DUG UP ANOTHER $1.9 BILLION IN TAXPAYER MONEY \u2018MISPLACED\u2019 BY BIDEN ADMINISTRATION<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probationary employees who were excluded from layoffs include:\u00a0<\/p>\n

DOGE<\/a> identified critical employees by first considering key functions of HHS \u2014 frontline healthcare providers, scientists conducting innovative research, personnel responding to emergencies \u2013 followed by employee roles, including work history, background, and job title screenings.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

NEW SEN. JIM JUSTICE \u2018ABSOLUTELY\u2019 SHOCKED BY DEMOCRATS\u2019 RESPONSE TO ELON MUSK\u2019S DOGE REVELATIONS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In many cases where there was a lack of clarity, we worked directly with folks who either knew the employees or knew the work of the division to clarify the exact work they were doing,” a Trump administration<\/a> official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the exact process will differ with each federal agency DOGE examines, key functions, specialized responsibilities, and individual roles will be considered for each workforce-cutting analysis. HHS received special attention \u2014 especially within the CDC, with meticulous consideration of research functions, lab work, and outbreak surveillance and response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Healthcare<\/a> is obviously an important goal for the new Secretary, for the President,” the official said. “We want to make the government more efficient and want to reduce the size of the federal workforce, but we also want to make sure we\u2019re very thoughtful about the critical functions that the government needs to perform.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials said DOGE does not begin any evaluation with any predetermined cost-cutting goal, and there is no official order through which federal agencies are lining up for examination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Typically, contracts and grants are the two main mechanisms the federal government has for dispersing funds,” the official told Fox News. “And then we\u2019re also thinking about regulations. Every agency is different, but the things we\u2019re looking at are pretty similar across every agency.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Government Efficiency terminated employment for 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services employees on Friday \u2014 but went through a careful process to exclude those who were serving in specialized or critical roles. \u00a0 More than half of the agency\u2019s probationary employees were retained.\u00a0 The cuts are estimated to save … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}