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Federal agencies warm up and order the resumption of some of the employees who have been dismissed in the weeks following the president Donald Trump took office while they were crowded to fill the critical gaps in the services left by the Effort led by the effectiveness of the government To reduce the federal workforce.
The quiet return of the Trump administration of shots and voluntary pensions – which are also twinned with new recruits “Strength reduction” plans As part of a thrust for spending cuts.
Experts have warned that even if the Trump administration had returned some of its efforts to shrink the federal workforce, rapid warming are a sign of warning that it has lost more capacities and expertise that could prove to be critical – and difficult to replace – in the months and years to come.
“There are time bombs everywhere in the federal government because of this,” said Elaine Kamarck, director of the Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings Institution. “They wreaked havoc in almost all agencies.”
Certain layoffs of government employees have been interrupted by the courts. But other measures to restore federal workers, when the Trump administration faces the pressure of the legislators, industries and groups they serve.
“President Trump is committed to making our government inflated more effective by reducing waste, fraud and abuse. The administration is committed to providing this mandate while rectifying any surveillance to minimize disruption of critical government services,” said White House spokesman Kush Desai.
Earlier this month, when the conflict of Israel with Iran has increased, Voice of America recalled Dozens of Farsi speakers who have been on administrative leave paid since March. The staff of his Persian language service were one of the hundreds who were then dismissed next week, such as the Trump administration Published the network.
With the looming hurricanes season, the National Weather Service – which has lost more than 560 employees with layoffs and early retirement incentives earlier this year – received authorization from Hire around 125 new meteorologists And specialists for its forecast offices across the country, despite a federally of hiring frost. These hires will help the staff offices that had to reduce their hours or prevent the allocation of the night quarter.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services Restored 450 employees In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which were dismissed as part of a massive reorganization in April, including HIV workers and exposure to infant lead.
The Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said in May that the department had also restored 328 workers from the National Safety and Health Institute of the CDC on mine security.
These combined employees represent approximately a third of the 2,400 workers whose HHS jobs have eliminated within the framework of its “strength reduction” plan while the Trump administration has reduced the size of the federal workforce.
More than 200 employees have canceled their layoffs at the CDC national center for HIV, viral hepatitis, STD and prevention of tuberculosis, as well as 158 in the National Center for Environmental Health, confirmed a HHS spokesperson. 71 others were brought back to the director of the director and two dozen others to the Global Health Center.
The cuts had wiped out the leading and monitoring branch of CDC childhood lead because it was helping Milwaukee tackling a lead exposure crisis in its public schools. The layoffs meant that the CDC had to refuse a request from the city for the specialists to help. The entire main team has been rehired, with its parent group, the Science and Environmental Health Division, according to its newly restored director, Dr. Erik Svendsen.
Other rehabilitates are also motivated by specific government services which have been emptied by initial layoffs. Food and Drug Administration has rehired more than a dozen scientists in a food security laboratory in Illinois. The Ministry of Agriculture has interrupted plans to dismiss 25% of its staff in 58 facilities responsible for the response to the bird flu, which had increased egg price.
Federal agency leaders also block certain plans to dismiss their employees. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was concerned about 10% reduction plans of Indian Health Service staff, said in an interview with the New York Times that Kennedy called her to say that he personally blocked these cuts.
“He called me to say:” They told me that I was supposed to find 10% of cuts at all levels for IHS, and I told them that I would not do it, that the IHS was chronically underfunded, we cannot go back and I will not do it, “said the republican of Alaska.
In February, the The Trump administration has dismissed – And then the next day rehired – more than 300 employees probatively of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency of the Ministry of Energy responsible for managing the country’s nuclear stocks. Sources told CNN at the time that Trump administration officials responsible for the decision did not seem to know that this agency supervises US nuclear weapons.
After HHS abandoned the whole team that manages the low -income energy aid program, or LIHEAP, in early April, the agency had to reclaim a long -standing employee for 2 and a half years to manage a critical formula necessary to distribute more than $ 400 million to the States, said Mark Wolfe, Executive Director of National Assistance Directors Association.
The dismissal of more than a dozen Liheap staff raised concerns among state representatives and legislators, who feared that the HHS would not send this final of the financing for the financial year 2025. Some states depended on the reception of this money to help residents to cool their homes this summer, as states had already exhausted their previous credits.
The agency announced at the end of April that it published the remaining money. Wolfe, however, remains concerned about the way HHS will manage the distribution of exercise funds 2026 that Congress could appropriate because the agency will not have experienced LIHAP staff. This “requires skills, requires knowledge of the program,” he said.
Scott Laney, a national epidemiologist of occupational safety and health who had received an opinion that was put on administrative leave but was then recalled, told CNN that there were “still a lot of chaos, in a way throughout the federal workforce”.
But he said he was more concerned with the safety of coal minors.
If the protections in place for decades are cut, said Laney, it is certain that “people will die earlier – that people will die in mining accidents and collapse of roofs, all kinds of work that we do to prevent injury and mining disease through the United States.”
Max Stier, CEO of the Partnership for the Public Service, said that the measures to eliminate and restore, many federal workers “show the mosaic of incompetence and a failure on the part of this administration to understand the critical value that the extent of government’s expertise provides.”
“This is not a single incident. This is a model that has implications for the ability of our government to take up not only today’s challenges, but the critical challenges of tomorrow,” said Stier.
Tami Luhby, Annie Grayer de CNN, Camila Dechalus, Andrew Freedman, Meg Tirrell and Brenda Goodman contributed to this report.