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toomuchbaloney said:

It's OK. He's sent a letter now.  

Is that the letter he sent to Mr. Japan?

He is really becoming an embarrassment to you. Sorry, should say, even more of an embarrassment.

CNN 7/14/25

Tracking Trump's overhaul of the federal workforce

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CNN is tracking the evolving situation at federal offices in Washington and across the United States. Last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs walked back its plans to conduct mass layoffs, so it is no longer included in the tracker below. This page will be updated as new reporting becomes available.

Here is what we know about the cuts so far, by select federal departments and agencies:

At least 51,224 workers have been laid off or targeted for layoffs from federal agencies so far:

 

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Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with mass firings at Education Department
 

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The Supreme Court on Monday said President Donald Trump may proceed with his plan to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education in the latest win for the White House at the conservative high court.

In an unsigned order, the justices lifted for now a lower court ruling that had indefinitely paused Trump's plan. The Supreme Court's decision puts that ruling on hold while the legal challenge plays out.

Within two hours, the Department of Education sent notices to employees indicating it is immediately resuming its plans to shrink the department.

CNN has reviewed emails sent Monday to some employees, who were initially fired in April before the judge stepped in, informing them of the Supreme Court decision and saying they would be let go on August 1.

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In a scathing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's senior liberal member, said her colleagues had made an "indefensible" decision to let Trump proceed with taking apart an agency that ordinarily can be dismantled only by Congress.

"The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is grave,” Sotomayor wrote in the dissent, which was joined in full by the other two liberal justices.

Trump ordered mass layoffs at the department earlier this year — cutting its workforce in half — but lower courts have blocked that effort, noting that the Education Department was created by Congress.

The president praised the high court's decision in a Truth Social post Monday...

 

Transformation to Make America Healthy Again is Trump Admin goal

However...... they are cutting 20,000 positions across HHS

CNN 7/14/25

HHS carries out mass firings across health agencies after Supreme Court decision

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Thousands of employees across US federal health agencies received an email Monday afternoon telling them they were out of a job as of the close of business.

The firings were originally communicated April 1 for most of the included employees, but they'd been delayed as a legal battle played out. That culminated in a US Supreme Court decision July 8 that, the US Department of Health and Human Services said in the email, means the agency "is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its [reduction in force].”

"You are hereby notified that you are officially separated from HHS at the close of business on July 14, 2025,” read Monday's notice to dismissed HHS employees, according to copies obtained by CNN. "Thank you for your service to the American people.”

"HHS previously announced our plans to transform this department to Make America Healthy Again and we intend to do just that,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in an email to CNN after the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

In a reorganization announced March 27, HHS eliminated 10,000 employees across agencies including the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US National Institutes of Health; some have since gotten their jobs back, but the number losing employment Monday is in the thousands, a spokesperson for the agency confirmed....

Some of those 10,000, though, are protected at least temporarily under a different court case, New York v. Kennedy, and are not being separated immediately, the spokesperson said. That includes employees at six units of the CDC — the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention; the National Center for Environmental Health; the Division of Reproductive Health; the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; the Office on Smoking and Health; and the National Center for Birth Defects and Development Disabilities — the Center for Tobacco Products at the FDA; the Office of Head Start; and the Division of Data and Technical Analysis under the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation....