The latest cuts focus on roughly 200,000 employees classified as probationary workers, including staffers at the Forest Service and the Energy Department.

Job cuts cascaded through the federal government on Thursday after its human resources division advised agencies to terminate most of an estimated 200,000 workers on probation, a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s drive to overhaul and shrink the federal work force.

The Trump administration has begun firing thousands of federal employees as part of a sweeping workforce restructuring.

Thousands of recently-hired federal workers have been terminated as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk escalate efforts to purge the workforce.

WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk’s campaign to radically cut back the U.S. bureaucracy spread today, with thousands of workers who handle everything from securing the nation’s nuclear weapons to caring for military veterans losing their jobs.

The United States government is beginning a new wave of mass firings following President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s order for sweeping cuts. It comes as the Trump administration advised all federal agencies to fire probationary employees,

The United States Government on Friday sacked no fewer than 9,500 workers who handled everything from managing federal lands to caring for military veterans. This followed the campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the US bureaucracy.

President Trump and right-hand man Elon Musk have rolled out a series of moves to cull the federal workforce, forging ahead with numerous methods to fire employees that have already sparked legal