Department of Homeland Security Will Not Be Stricken With 'Holdover' Cancer

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet 

 

The ‘break stuff’ agenda for the federal workforce isn’t stopping—not one bit. Multiple agencies have been slashed. The Environmental Protection Agency is cutting hundreds of staffers, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Agriculture bracing for their layoff orders. The Trump administration has instructed the Office of Personnel Management to put all probationary federal workers on the chopping block; these workers have yet to acquire workplace protections that usually kick in after a couple of years. 

Around 400 Department of Homeland Security staffers in this category were let go last week. Now, it’s the senior staffers who aren’t onboard with the Trump administration’s directives that will be targeted next (via NBC News): 

"The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the country’s third-largest agency of people deemed to be misaligned with the administration’s goals, according to three sources familiar with the matter...Read more here.