The administration of US President Donald Trump has already resulted in thousands of government workers.Credit: Tierney L. Cross/Getty
Agencies throughout the United States government have ordered the start of another round to punish workers at the same time as Congress moved forward with a plan to reduce their budgets – a potential blow to science.
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On Wednesday, Russell Fair, Director of the Office of the Management and Budget at the White House (OMB), I sent a note The agency’s heads are directed to submit plans from two steps to “RIFS” by RIFS by March 13 and April 14. The memo does not provide absolute numbers, but it calls for “eliminating the maximum amount of jobs that are not legally delegated.”
The administration of US President Donald Trump “has targeted every one federal worker and does not seem to be concerned with the amount of turmoil they cause either for the American employees or public,” the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents about 800,000 workers, He said in the February 26 statement. “Chaos is the point.”
The White House did not respond to a request to comment on this and other data in this story.
Starvation
The OMB Memorandum is the latest in a series of procedures conducted by the Trump administration to reduce the size of the federal workforce, which it said is corrupt and ineffective and overcome in the organization of companies. Science agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Corporation (NSF) – have borne major financiers in American academic sciences – major hairstyles. Over the past two weeks, the agencies have launched thousands of newly appointed “testing” tests, although he spent a federal judge yesterday that some of these extinguishing was illegal. The Trump administration has also cleared hundreds of people who worked on initiatives or programs for diversity, fairness and integration of the federal government, describing them as “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.”
Russell Fion, director of the White House management and budget office, sent a memorandum earlier this week calling for major discounts throughout government agencies.Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getti
The launch of permanent employees collectively, as mentioned in the last note, will represent a major escalation and can also face major legal challenges. RIFs in government agencies require a good reason, such as budget restrictions, according to Nick Bednar, a legal scientist at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. But the administration may soon have all the justification it needs: Trump’s Republican allies in Congress is working to pass a budget bill that seeks to reduce at least 1.5 to $ 2 trillion of the federal budget that begins in the fiscal year 2026. Compared, this entire estimated classification – the entire estimated part.
Feon has long called on the reduction of government budgets. In the 2023 report submitting federal budget suggestionsThe company, which is called a Missi organization in Washington, DC, used the American Renewal Center, the war -like terms to describe the next battle to dismantle the federal government “wake up and weapons”, including the “small scientific elite”, which feeds on taxpayer resources. “This is the central and immediate threat facing the country – which all statesmen must rise to the elimination of garbage,” he wrote, defending that the government “starved to dismantle it.”
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The huge size of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the United States government has no modern precedent. In the nineties of the last century, the president and the newborn at that time Bill Clinton ordered the agencies to reduce its working rules, but the discounts were relatively moderate: at least 4 % of the workforce was cut, and the work to be done was spread over a period of 3 years and was completed primarily through the strategies of attrition such as leaving vacant positions when people retired.
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Some agencies have seen greater fluctuations in the workforce over the years. During Trump’s first presidency, from 2017 to 2021, for example, the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave about 1,100 people, or 7 % of its employees, despite Congress efforts to prevent budget cuts.
Political specialists say that if the latest RIFS is implemented on the specified scale, they can permanently weaken science agencies.
In NSF, a reduction of up to 50 % of the workforce – about 800 out of 1,600 people – was proposed by NSF sources based on the expected budget discounts for 2026.
These extremist discounts in the workforce reflects the 2023 Vogue Suggestion scale: In it, it suggests reducing the agency’s budget by more than half, from about 9 billion dollars to less than $ 4 billion. Kenny Evans, a political scientific researcher at Rice University in Houston, Texas, says the agency will not “be able to fulfill its legal mission-she cannot do this with $ 4 billion,” says Kenny Evans, a political scientific researcher at Rice University in Houston, Texas. “NSF as we know it can stop exist.” (NSF grants about $ 8.5 billion of research grants every year.)