Mass layoffs, court challenges and buyouts: Making sense of Trump's plans to shrink the federal workforce

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Mass layoffs, court challenges and buyouts: Making sense of Trump's plans to shrink the federal workforce

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^{Published in Politics and Government on Saturday, February 15th 2025 at 5:20 GMT by MSN}

Answering some of the most important questions surrounding DOGE's rapid transformation of the federal workforce.

The article from MSN discusses former President Donald Trump's plans to significantly reduce the size of the federal workforce if he were to return to office. Trump's strategy includes mass layoffs, court challenges to existing civil service protections, and offering buyouts to federal employees. His aim is to dismantle what he perceives as a "deep state" by targeting career bureaucrats, whom he believes hinder his policy implementations. This approach would involve reclassifying tens of thousands of federal workers to make them easier to fire, potentially facing legal battles over civil service job protections. Critics argue that such moves could politicize the federal workforce, disrupt government operations, and lead to a loss of institutional knowledge. The plans reflect Trump's ongoing conflict with the federal bureaucracy, which he has accused of thwarting his previous administration's initiatives.

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