Washington – The Trump Administration ordered federal agencies on Wednesday to prepare for mass layoffs, according to the heads of the Budget and Personnel Management offices of the White House.
Budget director Russell Vought and Charles Ezell, the interim director of the Office of Personnel Management, wrote in a memorandum the bosses of these agencies that the federal government is “expensive, inefficient and deeply indebted.”
“At the same time, it is not producing results for the American public. On the other hand, tax dollars are diverting to finance unnecessary and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting worker US citizens,” they said.
The memorandum indicates that President Donald Trump has required “current large -scale reductions” and to implement that, asks the heads of departments and agencies that present the first phase of reorganization plans before March 13, that “it will focus on” cuts and reductions of the initial agency “.
The plans should be based on the principles of guaranteeing “best service” for Americans, “increasing productivity”, a “footprint of reduced real estate” and a “reduced budget,” said the memorandum.
Ask the agencies that consolidate areas that are “duplicate” and where there are “unnecessary layers” within management. It also requires implementing technology that can “automate routine tasks” so that staff can “focus on more value activities.”
Memorandum specifically requires the elimination of “low -performance employees or employees involved in misconduct.”
The departments and agencies will have to present plans for a reduction in the second phase workforce in mid -April. “That will describe a vision for operations of more productive and efficient agencies in the future and implemented at the end of September,” said the memorandum.
That second part of the plan must include “any proposed relocation of agencies and offices of Washington, DC and the region of the national capital to less expensive parts of the country,” he said.
Vought and Ezell explained that the memorandum does not apply to the necessary positions for the application of the law, national security, the application of immigration and US military personnel. It also excludes the postal service of the United States and those appointed presidential.
The officials of two federal agencies told NBC News that Doge employees have begun to pass for each individual position to prepare for reductions. One of the officials said that Doge employees created a workers’s spreadsheet in the agency and began to mark whether they and their positions are considered critical or not.
Thousands of evidence were already fired from agencies and departments throughout the federal government in the last two weeks as a result of the Governmental efficiency effort of Elon Musk.
Then, this weekend, the workers were notified that they would have to answer an email led by Elon Musk to justify their work by listing what they achieved in the last week; If they did not respond, he said, they would risk being fired.
At his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Trump supported Musk’s message, despite the conflicting directives that the workers received from some agency leaders who responded by saying to employees that they did not have to answer.
“Those people are in the bubble, as they say,” Trump said Wednesday about people who did not respond. “You know that maybe they are going to disappear, maybe they are not close, maybe they have other jobs, maybe they moved and are not where they are supposed to be.”
