Pentagon to fire 5,400 probationary workers, institute hiring freeze
The Defense Department said Friday it would reduce about 5,400 trial workers starting next week and would freeze the recruitment.
U.S. officials said it was at the Government Efficiency Department (or Multi-Grid Competition) staff at the Pentagon earlier this week and received a list of such employees. The lists do not include immunized uniform military personnel, they said. Probation employees are usually less than a year of work and have not yet received civil servant protection.
Darin Selnick announced that we expect the department’s civilian workforce to increase the president’s priorities and reduce department readiness by 5-8%. ” In a statement said.
President Trump’s administration Thousands of federal workers are being fired People with fewer measures to protect civil servants. Thousands of probation workers at federal health agencies It was terminated last weekend. and More than 6,000 IRS employees A source familiar with the agency’s plans told CBS News it is expected to end this weekend.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth supported the cuts and released last week on X the Pentagon’s need to “reduce fat (headquarters) and grow muscles (war fighters). Command the Pentagon Sources familiar with his plans told CBS News Thursday in order to propose plans to cut 8% from the defense budget over the next five years.
Hegseth directs the military to identify $50 billion plans that could redirect those savings next year to fund Trump’s priorities, Robert Salesess is fulfilling the Department of Defense Responsibilities of the Deputy Minister. It accounts for about 8% of the military budget.
“Through our budget, the Department of Defense will once again engage in resource wars and stop unnecessary spending, which puts our military under the leadership of the previous government, including through so-called “climate change” and other awakening programs, as well as excessive bureaucracy agency, “Sales” said in a statement Wednesday.
The Ministry of Defense is the largest government agency, and the Office of Government Accountability found that it has more than 700,000 full-time civilian workers in 2023.
This is also because Trump announced Friday that he would fire Air Force General Charles Q. Brown served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and nominated retired Air Force Lieutenant Dan “Razin” Caine to replace him.
Along with Brown’s sack, Heggs announced Lisa Franchetti, head of naval operations The Air Force’s deputy chief of staff was also fired. Franchetti was the first woman to lead the Navy, while Brown was the second black chairman.
