Over 30,000 have been let go or put on leave but information on which departments have been impacted is only trickling out.
President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.
"Those who we need, who are the best and brightest, are going to stay. Those who are under performers — won't," said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The move comes amid a government-wide effort to cut probationary workers by the Department of Government Efficiency task ...
Federal layoffs are starting with huge numbers of probationary workers, and there are warnings of bigger cuts on the way.
The National Science Foundation fired 168 federal employees, marking one of many agencies who fired probationary feds at the Trump administration's directions.
Hours after The Washington Post contacted the U.S. Office of Personnel Management about the issue, GSA reversed itself.
Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President ...