What to Know About the Federal Worker Layoffs

Due to DOGE’s findings, layoffs have spread, recently reaching the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which laid off thousands of probationary workers.
What to Know About the Federal Worker Layoffs
People protest the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with Democrat lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 11, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Savannah Hulsey Pointer
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has shaken up Washington, D.C., with its audits, triggering reforms and layoffs in a number of federal agencies.

On Feb. 20, a judge ruled that the Trump administration can continue its widespread firings of federal employees. The judge rejected a bid by a group of labor unions to end the current administration’s downsizing of the federal government’s massive workforce, saying that he lacks the power to decide whether the dismissal of thousands of workers is lawful.