The Pentagon said that he will eliminate 5,400 jobs from next week and freeze hiring, as part of President Donald Trump's initiative to reduce federal expenses.
The Department of Defense said Friday that it will cut 5,400 workers in the test period from next week and that it will freezing the hiring.
This occurs after the staff of the Government Efficiency Department, or Doge, was in the Pentagon at the beginning of the week and received lists of said employees, said US officials, who assured that these payrolls did not include uniformed military personnel.
Employees during the trial are generally those who are at work for less than a year and who have not yet obtained the protection of civil service.
“We anticipate reducing the civil labor force of the department by 5-8 % to produce efficiencies and forward the department in the president's priorities and restore force preparation,” said Darin Selnick, interim defense deputy secretary for personnel and preparation, in A statement.
President's administration Donald Trump is saying goodbye to thousands of federal workers They have less civil service protections. For example, approximately 2,000 employees of the United States Forest Service were eliminated and 7,000 people from the Internal Revenue Service are expected.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, has supported the cuts and last week he published in X that the Pentagon needs to “reduce fat (office workers) and develop force (combatants).”
The Defense Department is the largest government agency; The Government Responsibility Office determined in 2023 that it had more than 700,000 full -time civil workers.
Hegseth has also ordered military services to identify 50,000 million dollars in programs that could be cut next year to redirect those savings to finance Trump's priorities. It represents approximately 8 % of the military budget.
In the FBI
Also on Friday, the Federal Research Office (FBI) ordered that 1,500 employees be transferred from their Washington headquarters to offices throughout the country, according to two sources of Reuters Approximately one in four FBI employees currently works in Washington, according to government figures.
In some cases, the Trump administration has rushed to hire those who have fired, including workers who supervise nuclear safety and avian flu response.
The centers for the control and prevention of diseases in the United States said they would call the previously fired workers who supervise a health plan for 137,000 people sick due to toxic exposure after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The CDC also said that two research contracts would restore that had canceled to investigate cancer rates between emergency services after facing criticisms from Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
Most Americans fear that the Musk reduction campaign can affect government services, according to a reuters/Ipsos survey.
(With information from Reuters and AP)