DOGE latest: What is a probationary worker?

The Trump government, with the help of Elon Musk and the Ministry of Government EfficiencyHas intensified its enormous guideline to drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump Last week signed an executive order that told desk leaders to plan ‘large -scale reductions in force’. The order was an expansion of previous directions of the Office of Personnel Management, which earlier this week said agencies that probation staff should be dismissed if they did not meet high standards.

Federal employees, in particular what is known as probation workers, are preparing for radical dismissals.

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What is a probation worker?

What we know:

Test workers are employees of the federal government who generally have less than a year at work.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, accompanied by US President Donald Trump (R), his son X Musk and Minister of Witte Huis Will Scharf (L), speaks during an executive order in the Oval Office in the White House on the White House On February 11 on February 11, 2025 in WA

What we don’t know:

It is not clear how many employees are currently in a probationary period. According to government data that is maintained by OPM, from March 2024, 220,000 employees had less than a year at work – the most recent data available.

Who will be fired?

DIVERS DEPERTION:

The dismissal of probation employees started last week and included the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Education Workers. Hundreds Employees of the Federal Aviation Administration are dismissed, the staff of only a few weeks after one Fatal collision in the air on Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport And just before a Delta aircraft crashed during the landed in Toronto.

Probation staff who performed critical functions and had approvals at a high level, including staff of the National Nuclear Security Administration, were dismissed despite their role. The IRS will also dismiss thousands of probation workers in the middle of the tax season.

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According to a trade union, at least 39 have been dismissed from the Education department, according to a trade union that represents employees of the Agency, including employees of civil rights, specialists with special education and officials of student assistance.

The dismissals have also affected Department of Veterans Affairs researchers who work on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prostheses and Burn Pit exposure, said the American senator Patty Murray, a Democrat, Thursday.

Department of Government Efficiency Staffers were on the Pentagon this week and received lists of the probationary period of the army, said American officials.

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Even employees in the personnel office itself were not immune: dozens of probation workers were told at OpM that they were fired and then the assignment to leave the building within half an hour, according to another person who also spoke in the condition of anonymity.

Who orders probation workers to be fired?

The decision about probation workers came from the Office of Personnel Management, which serves as a personnel department for the federal government, told sources to The Associated Press.

What they say:

Musk, who has given President Trump great room to defeat government spending with his Ministry of Government Efficiency, called on Thursday for the elimination of entire agencies.

“I think we should remove entire agencies instead of leaving many of them,” Musk said via a video ball to the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “If we do not remove the roots from the weed, it is easy for the weed to grow back.”

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The other side:

Everett Kelley, the president of the US Federation of Government employees who represent federal employees, said that the administration “abused” the probation status of employees to perform a politically driven mass shooting, aimed at employees, not because of the performance, but because because because because because because They were previously hired, Trump took office. “