Defense Department begins staffing cuts as 31,000 employees offer to resign: report

Around 4,000 Department of Defense (DOD) employees person received termination notices this week arsenic the Trump medication moves guardant with plans to downsize the national government. 

ABC News reported that different 31,000 civilian employees, 3.5% of the full DOD civilian workforce, submitted a resignation petition per an Office of Personnel Management email sent to employees.

Some of those requests volition beryllium denied due to the fact that those employees person been exempted, the study states. So far, 11,000 of those who submitted resignations person had their requests accepted. 

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The Department of Defense has been ordered to marque plans for sweeping fund cuts nether a Trump medication order. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)

The DOD declined to remark to Fox News Digital connected the matter. Fox News Digital has reached retired to respective defence agencies.

The DOD began its archetypal circular of layoffs arsenic probationary employees astatine aggregate agencies person been fto go, the Federal News Network reported. 

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which serves arsenic the logistics and proviso concatenation absorption limb of the DOD, laid disconnected 100 probationary employees.

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"DLA released probationary employees accordant with the Department of Defense’s broader efforts to guarantee resources are aligned with the department’s strategical objectives," an bureau spokesperson told the outlet. 

A Defense Health Agency (DHA) spokesperson told Federal News Network that dismissals person been restricted to office positions "that are administrative successful nature."

"DHA is executing OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] guidance successful accordance with the EO [executive order] regarding the dismissal of probationary employees," the bureau said successful a statement.

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The unit reductions are portion of a determination by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to chopped costs.