AGENCY,
DEPT, or PROGRAM |
PROGRAM CUTS, FIRINGS, AND RIFs
(dates refer to CY 2025) |
KEY DEVELOPMENTS |
OVERALL:
FED WORKERS |
As of 4/21/25 (source: NYTimes):
76,100 employees took buyouts
58,206 confirmed firings (although some temporary reinstatements following court orders)
145,420 additional planned reductions-in-force (RIFs)TOTAL: 279,726 = 12% of 2.4 million civilian federal workers |
1/20: Trump revives “Schedule F” to remove civil service protections and ease firings
1/28: “Deferred resignation” buyout offer to all federal employees (without congressional authorization or appropriation of funds for the buyouts)
2/13: OPM orders blanket firing of probationary employees
2/26: OPM/OMB order heads of departments to submit large-scale RIFs by 3/13
2/27: Judge temporarily blocks OPM firing of probationary employees
3/5: OPM says firings will be handled by each agency
4/17: Trump extends hiring freeze |
Inspectors
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| AmeriCorps |
4/25: DOGE orders major cut to AmeriCorps funding, imperiling agency’s work
The agency was directed to terminate nearly $400 million in grants that account for about 41 percent of its total grant funding. |
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Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) |
3/27: HHS cuts include 2,400 employees at CDC |
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| Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) |
3/24: HHS cuts include 300 employees at CMS |
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| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
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| Defense Dept. |
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| Dept. of Education |
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| Dept. of Justice Grants |
4/24: DOJ axes hundreds of grants that help crime victims and fight opioid abuse |
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| Environmental Protection Agency |
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| Food & Drug Admin. |
2/24: 180 physicians and cyber experts in the medical devices division laid off
3/27: HHS cuts include 3,500 FDA employees |
Administration then back-tracked and tried to rehire. |
| Forest Service |
4/23: Admin. has cut more than 10% of workforce raising fears about wildfire response |
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| Health & Human Services Dept. |
3/27: HHS cuts 10,000 employees, on top of 10,000 who left voluntarily, shrinking the workforce from 82,000 to 62,000; in addition 5,200 probationary workers are on leave while their fate winds through the courts |
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| Low Income Home Energy Assistance |
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| Millenium Challenge Corp. |
4/23: MCC staff were told all of the agency’s programs to reduce poverty and promote economic growth around the world will be shutdown |
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| National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
3/24: HHS cuts include 1,200 employees at NIH |
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National Nuclear
Security Admin. |
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| National Park Service |
2/19: 1000 NPS workers fired |
Administration then tried to rehire at least 50 and is now hiring 7700 seasonal workers. |
| National Science Foundation |
4/22: NSF terminates hundreds of active research awards |
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| NIOSH |
4/25: NIOSH’s congressionally mandated Health Hazard Evaluation program is one of many health and safety services on which firefighters depend that’s been shrunk or eliminated by HHS in Kennedy’s RIF of 10,000 employees |
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| NOAA (including National Weather Service) |
2/27: 880 probationary employees fired |
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| Social Security Admin. (SSA) |
2/27: cuts at least 7,000 staff (12% of the workforce); dozens of offices |
4/9: backs away from cuts to phone service |
| State Dept. |
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| USAID |
2/4: 10,000 USAID employees placed on administrative leave
3/28:Trump administration moves to formally abolish USAID
4/25: Pregnant and cut by DOGE, aid workers beg Trump administration for compassion |
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| VOA |
3/14: Trump orders cuts to US Agency for Global Media, Radio Free Europe and Asia, and Radio Marti to minimum required by law |
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