Trump Layoffs Hit Social Security Administration, But On A Smaller Scale
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The agency’s shrinking staff administers retirement benefits for a growing senior population.
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration sent termination notices to several dozen employees Thursday, the latest in a long string of mass federal agency layoffs since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The administration has targeted newly-hired employees in a yearlong “probationary” period at other federal agencies as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s downsizing effort, led by billionaire Elon Musk. Probationary employees make up about 10% of federal workers across agencies.
The cuts at SSA may be the smallest undertaken so far by the Trump administration and a nod to Social Security’s relatively privileged position among federal programs.
A union representing 42,000 of Social Security’s roughly 60,000 employees said that out of 1,800 probationary employees at the SSA, only 41 received termination notices on Thursday.
Rich Couture, spokesman for the AFGE Social Security General Committee, said in a statement that the union was “grateful” almost all the employees were spared.
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