DOGE plans to lay off nuclear missile maintenance staff
The Department of Public Administration Efficiency (DOGE) of the United States, headed by businessman Elon Musk, announced the "secondary importance" of 8.5 thousand employees of the country's Ministry of Energy and the National Nuclear Safety Administration, which is engaged in the modernization and maintenance of nuclear warheads. This was reported on April 6 by the Associated Press (AP), referring to a document with relevant data.
"According to the document, about 500 positions in the nuclear safety Agency and about 8,000 jobs in the Department of Energy were considered insignificant. Some of them have already been reduced due to postponed resignations," the AP reports.
All of these employees will be laid off and laid off, while this number is actually half of the 17.5 thousand employees. As for the field of nuclear safety management, 500 out of 3 thousand people may be reduced there, adds "Газета.Ru ".
At the moment, the management has not yet made final decisions, and therefore various options are being considered, the Ministry of Energy clarified.
On April 4, The Washington Post reported that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to cut a quarter of its employees, which amounts to about 20,000 jobs, as part of DOGE's cost-cutting initiatives. On the same day, the agency announced the liquidation of the Office for Civil Rights, which was responsible for protecting American taxpayers from discrimination. At the same time, 130 employees were dismissed from there.
Also on March 30, WP announced the dismissal of hundreds of employees of the US Institute of Peace by decision of DOGE. According to the newspaper, some employees of the institute were offered severance pay or an extension of medical insurance in exchange for their signatures waiving the right to file a lawsuit. It is noted that in total, USIP has about 600 employees in offices around the world.
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