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The Elon Musk Government Department of Elon Musk is expected to target the Ministry of Internal Security in the coming days, seeking potentially major reductions to agencies, including American secret services, according to several sources.
The DHS is preparing for what could constitute significant layoffs, four sources familiar with the question that has obtained anonymity to speak freely said CNN, although no final decision has been taken, and that the ultimate scale and scope have not been set.
This week, two of the sources said that there were back and forth negotiations and lobbying between Doge, the White House and the Directorate of Homeland Security, each of the components of the department which should be affected differently. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, should be decimated, according to one of the sources.
Customs and border protection and immigration and customs application are also faced with potential cuts, two of the sources said.
A senior DHS official told CNN that the ministry is “determined to eliminate government waste that has been occurring for decades at the expense of the American taxpayer. In the DHS, we will eliminate the critical positions not put and the bureaucratic obstacles which undermine our mission to ensure the security of the fatherland. Secretary Noem is determined to return the DHS to its main mission to maintain America’s safety. ”
CNN contacted DHS and DOGE to comment. The secret services refused to comment.
House security secretary Kristi Noem should send an email to the staff of his department in the coming days in the expected discounts, with a separate e-mail in the work detailing the potential options so that employees include voluntary separations and early retirement. One of the sources clearly said that Noem’s name could appear on this email – but it is the top of Trump Stephen Miller, Doge and other members of the White House staff who make key decisions.
Secret service cuts would be made at a particularly difficult period for the agency, stretched out According to what senior officials presented an unprecedented and dynamic threat environment, including two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump last summer. The agency was disturbed of low morale problems, professional exhaustion, low endowment and retention.
The agency spent unprecedented $ 2 million last February for a television AdvertisingTapping Michael Bay for the successful film director for the announcement.
The authorities have supported on the testimony of Capitol Hill several times following the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, that the agency is underfunded and subressource.
All the agency’s discounts, according to one of the sources, are likely to have an impact on administrative and technical staff, but could also have an impact on new recruits and those in their period of probation, positions more easily reduced. It is not expected that the source has an immediately impact on the basic missions of the agency and the preparation – although this can over time, in particular if the roles of the law application must reimburse the vacant support positions.
There is a huge anxiety about what could ultimately take place at the USSS among the basic employees, said the sources, and hesitating to speak to journalists due to the threat of polygraph tests.
“It is difficult for the service to execute a strategy, which consists in strengthening their resources and their funding – especially in the wake of the attack on President Trump in Butler. How do they build this strategy which must now reduce a workforce? ” Questioned Jonathan Wackrow, CNN contributor and former USSS agent.
Wackrow continued: “The mission is not directly affected by what is offered right now – but that will do it over time. You start to create these intrinsic vulnerabilities in your workforce that could lead to another butler. ”
The news of the potential discounts sent shock waves in the component agencies of the DHS on Saturday, said several sources, the staff desperately looking for the clarity of their managers as to whether they could be affected.
During the secret services, senior executives told personnel on Saturday that the DHS was carrying out an assessment of workforce reduction for each of its component agencies, sources said, but any possible cut has remained clear. High secrets of the secret services also declared to the basis that they expected more and more clarity of the management of the DHS, which they hoped to have in the coming days.