An educator, archaeologist and scientist were among the thousands of government workers culled by Musk\u2019s agency<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has fired at least 20,000<\/a> government employees in its first month, as Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) dramatically overhauls work at federal agencies. Some economists have speculated<\/a> that these terminations, which could affect nearly 300,000 workers, will be the biggest job cuts in US history.<\/p>\n Most of the workers cut were in probationary periods<\/a> and lacked job protections that come with longer terms of employment. In social media spaces, especially the r\/fednews<\/a> subreddit, these workers described scenes of confusion and feelings of anger directed at Musk, an unelected billionaire dubbed a \u201cspecial government employee\u201d by the White House. Last week, unions for federal workers sued<\/a> the Trump administration for unlawfully using probationary periods to cut staff.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An educator, archaeologist and scientist were among the thousands of government workers culled by Musk\u2019s agency The Trump administration has fired at least 20,000 government employees in its first month, as Elon Musk\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) dramatically overhauls work at federal agencies. Some economists have speculated that these terminations, which could affect … 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-34309","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\/34309","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=34309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}