Laid Off
Almost 10,000 federal workers were let go on Friday as the White House continues efforts to shrink the government workforce.
The layoffs largely targeted probationary employees in their first year at the Departments of Interior, HHS, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Energy—including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Energy agency responsible for overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile. However, a federal judge promptly “partly rescinded” the NNSA’s 325 dismissals in order to retain essential nuclear security staff.
The IRS is expected to add to the stack of pink slips this week by laying off thousands of probationary workers at the height of tax season.
President Trump has argued the government’s 2.3-million-person civilian workforce is “bloated” and inefficient, pointing to the $36 trillion national debt, while congressional Democrats question his constitutional authority over federal spending.
Verse to consider whether you’re in a season of transition or today is the same old, same old… “He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (CSB) (read full passage)