{"id":34039,"date":"2025-02-22T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/pentagon-lays-off-5400-civilian-workers-with-tens-of-thousands-more-firings-due\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T01:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:30:45","slug":"pentagon-lays-off-5400-civilian-workers-with-tens-of-thousands-more-firings-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/pentagon-lays-off-5400-civilian-workers-with-tens-of-thousands-more-firings-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon lays off 5,400 civilian workers, with tens of thousands more firings due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth supports cuts of up to 8% of civilian workforce as Trump bids to institute massive government cuts<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon announced plans Friday to fire 5-8% of its civilian workforce, staring next week with layoffs of 5,400 probationary workers, a Department of Defense official said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/4074278\/dod-probationary-workforce-statement\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The initial layoffs will be followed by a Department of Defense hiring freeze to analyze the military\u2019s personnel needs in compliance with Donald Trump\u2019s political goals, Darin Selnick, the acting under-secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/21\/pentagon-layoffs-civilian-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth supports cuts of up to 8% of civilian workforce as Trump bids to institute massive government cuts The Pentagon announced plans Friday to fire 5-8% of its civilian workforce, staring next week with layoffs of 5,400 probationary workers, a Department of Defense official said in a statement. The initial layoffs will be followed &#8230; <a title=\"Pentagon lays off 5,400 civilian workers, with tens of thousands more firings due\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/pentagon-lays-off-5400-civilian-workers-with-tens-of-thousands-more-firings-due\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pentagon lays off 5,400 civilian workers, with tens of thousands more firings due\">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-34039","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\/34039","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=34039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}