Defense Department to Cut Over 5,000 Workers
The department has more than 945,000 civilian employees. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said 17 specific missions, such as military operations at the southwestern border, would be exempt from the 8 percent cuts in the defense budget he has ordered for each of the next five years.
The Pentagon expected cuts are a fraction of the 50,000 job losses anticipated but they might not be the last.
The dismissals will begin next week, officials said, and could expand to include tens of thousands of other workers ...
Trump administration has directed defense agencies to submit lists of probationary employees by end of Tuesday, says ...
as the Pentagon braces for layoffs that have rocked other parts of the federal government in recent weeks. It's not clear how many employees would be cut from the Pentagon's ranks. NPR reported ...
Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump’s ...
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Pentagon To Layoff 5,400 Employees As President Donald Trump And Elon Musk Continue To Downsize Federal AgenciesSo far, over 20,000 workers have been laid off and multiple programs have been dismantled across the US government from ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian employees as the Trump administration’s axe to the federal workforce ...
The Pentagon is pausing the impending cuts to probationary civilian employees that could have affected around 50,000 people working for the Defense Department, a U.S. official tells CBS News. Charlie ...
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