The Trump administration’s drive to downsize the federal workforce continues, with news that thousands of US government employees across the United States have been told they are being let go.
All this is taking place after Elon Musk, who Trump has appointed as chair of his “department of government efficiency” said that his intention is to “delete entire agencies”.
The latest cuts target employees in their probationary periods at agencies that include the department of veterans affairs, small business administration and US forest service.
Tens of thousands of government employees told to leave amid Elon Musk’s call to ‘delete’ entire agencies.
JD Vance is scheduled to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and deliver remarks at the Munich security conference, where America’s European allies are grasping for details of the Trump administration’s new policy on Ukraine.
