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• Thousands more recent federal hires receive warnings of their easy-to-fire status - February 5, 2025

• The Trump administration is ratcheting up its efforts to push federal workers out of government.

  February 4, 2025 06:29 PM ET

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  More federal employees are receiving warnings they could soon be fired as the Trump administration ratchets up its efforts to drive civil servants out of government, with the latest push again targeting recent hires.

  Emails went out this week to Agriculture Department employees currently on their probationary period, according to several sources aware of them, alerting the workers—who can typically be fired quickly and without much recourse—of their status. The communication follows a directive from the Office of Personnel Management, issued shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, requesting lists of all employees on their probationary periods.

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