As Thursday's deadline to accept a deferred resignation offer from the Trump administration looms, leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services have been directed to rank thousands of their employees who are in probationary periods, bracing for layoffs, according to new emails obtained by The Washington Post.
The emails reveal that leaders were asked to rank 10 percent of their probationary staff as mission-critical, 50 percent as important and 40 percent as not-mission critical. The rankings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its probationary staff— a period that can last one or two years into the federal service— were due Thursday.
