More than two weeks since President Donald Trump announced major plans to downscale the government, mass firing at multiple U.S. government agencies begun on Feb. 11, union sources and employees familiar with the layoffs told Reuters.
Sources told Reuters termination emails have been sent in the past 48 hours to scores of government workers, mostly to recently hired employees still on probation, including in the Education Department, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the General Services Administration (GSA).
