As part of the continuous efforts of the Trump administration for Reduce federal workforceThe General Services Administration eliminated its technological unit, learned CBS News on Saturday.
The GSA technological unit, known as the 18F office, employed a team of researchers, websites of websites and product managers. We don’t know exactly how many workers have been affected.
The office was responsible for helping to build the free tax deposit service from the Internal Service and update other government agency websites.
GSA administrator Thomas Shedd announced the elimination of 18F in an internal email that was sent early on Saturday morning. In this area, Shedd wrote that the team had been identified as “non-critical” and that the cuts had been carried out “in alignment with the optimization of the workforce of President EO and the recent Memo of GSA by the Trump administration requiring to reduce the” unclean advice functions “.”
“The decision was made with an explicit direction of the main levels of leadership within the administration and the GSA,” said the message.
Shedd added that “we are planning more changes in the future”.
THE official website For office 18F, it was put offline on Saturday.
GSACreated for the first time in 1949, had around 12,000 employees and was responsible for a wide range of support services for other government agencies, such as management of the office space and real estate, the acquisition of supplies and the supervision of digital technology.
Among his responsibilities is to help presidential transitions. However, after Mr. Trump won the November elections, his transitional team refused to sign a memorandum of understanding with GSA as was done by the Republicans and Democrats in previous transitions. This agreement allows the office space, the secure email addresses and the financing of the transfer of transition and other activities to be provided by the GSA.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who heads the Ministry of Efficiency of the White House government, or Doge, was accused by President Trump of reducing federal spending, a process that has so far involved to dismiss thousands of workers through the government.
In a social media position on Saturday, billionaire Mark Cuban, who campaigned for the former vice-president Kamala Harris last year and criticized Mr. Trump, wrote That if “you worked for 18F and you were dismissed, you group together to start a consulting company”.
“It’s just a matter of time before Doge needs you to repair the mess that they inevitably create,” added Cuban. “They will have to hire your business as an entrepreneur to repair it. But according to your conditions. I am happy to invest and / or help.”
