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Washington: President Donald Trump, supported by his adviser Elon Musk, intensified efforts to drastically reduce US bureaucracy on Friday and rejected over 9,500 federal employees responsible for duties ranging from supervising public countries to provide care of military veterans.

Workers at the interior department, energy, veteran affairs, agriculture and health and human services were terminated in a drive that has hitherto largely – but not exclusively – targeted test employees in their first years on the job who have fewer employment protection.

Some agencies are essentially closed, such as the independent watchdog for the consumer’s financial protection agency, where cuts also hit workers on the contracts of the court.

The tax collection Internal Revenue Service is preparing to shoot thousands of workers next week, two people who are familiar with the case, a step that could push the resources ahead of the American April 15 period to file income taxes.

The layoffs reported by Reuters and other major US media are in addition to the approx. 75,000 workers who have taken a buyout that Trump and Musk have offered to get them to leave voluntarily, according to the White House. This corresponds to approx. 3% of the 2.3 million-personal civilian workforce.

Trump says the federal government is too inflated and too much money is lost to waste and fraud. The federal government has approx. 36 trillion dollars in debt and ran a $ 1.8 trillion deficit last year, and there is Bipartisan agreement on the need for reform.

But the Congress Democrats say Trump is interfering with the legislature’s constitutional authority of federal expenses, even when his co -Republicans who control majorities in both congregations have largely supported the movements.

Critics have questioned the blunt power approach to Musk, the world’s richest person who has gathered extraordinary influence in Trump’s Presidency.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday pulled out these concerns and compared Musk’s government to government efficiency with a financial audit.

“These are serious people and they go from agency to agency, perform an audit and head to best practice,” he told Fox Business Network.

Musk is dependent on a carrier of young engineers with a little government experience to control his DODE campaign, and their early cuts appear to have driven more of ideology than reducing costs.

‘I have been betrayed by my country’

Fired federal workers expressed shock.

“I have done a lot for my country, and as a veteran who served his country, I feel that I have been betrayed by my country,” said Nick Gioia, who served in the army and worked for the Ministry of Defense for a total of 17 years , before joining USDA’s financial research service in December, to be fired only late Thursday.

“I don’t feel like this has anything to do with federal workers, I feel like this is just a game,” said Gioia, who lives in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and has a child with epilepsy. “Sitting here and seeing people like Mr Musk Tweet out, how he feels like he’s doing a good job, he doesn’t realize what he’s doing with people’s lives.”

Steve Lenkart, CEO of the National Federation of Federal Employees Union, representing more than 100,000 workers, said he expects Musk if SpaceX companies have major contracts with the US federal government and Trump administration to concentrate on agencies that regulates the industry and finance.

“That’s really what this whole thing is really about,” Lenkart said. “It gets the government out of industry and incredibly rich people, why Elon Musk is so excited about this.”

Nuclear cuts ‘partially abolished’

About 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy were dismissed, including 325 from the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the nuclear stock, sources familiar with the case told Reuters Friday.

But these redundancies have been “partially abolished” to maintain significant nuclear security workers, one of the sources says. It was unclear how many of the 325 layoffs were lifted.

Another 2,300 employees were axed from the domestic department, which administers 500 million Acres public countries, including more than 60 national parks, as well as the country’s and offshore oil and gas rental programs, sources of Reuters say.

An unknown number of workers at the Department of Agriculture were also shown the door, the sources say.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cuts nearly 1,300 workers, or one -third of its staff, Associated Press reported.

The layoffs added to a round of cuts that have targeted departments, including veteran affairs, education and small business administration.

Office of Personal Management officials, who oversee federal employment, met with agencies on Thursday and advised them to dismiss their recent employees who were missing full job protection, according to a person who is familiar with the case.

The speed and breadth of Musk’s efforts have caused growing frustration among some of Trump’s helpers over a lack of coordination, including staff manager at the White House Susie Wiles, sources of Reuters say.

Litigation challenges musk

In addition to job reductions, Trump and Musk have tried to intestine service protection for career workers, frozen most of us foreign aid, and have tried to shoot some state agencies such as the US Agency for International Development and CFPB almost completely.

Trade unions representing federal workers have sued to block the acquisition plan.

Three federal judges who supervise privacy cases against DOGE will consider on Friday whether Musk’s team should have access to the Treasury Department payment systems and potentially sensitive data on US health, consumer protection and work agencies.

Musk has sent DODE members to at least 16 state agencies where they have accessed computer systems with staff and financial information and sent workers home.

The Treasury Department’s Inspector General has launched a revision of the payment system’s security check, according to a letter sent in response to a request of democratic lawmakers.