The five JFK Library federal employees who were abruptly let go by the Trump administration last week, leading to a sudden shutdown of the Dorchester site, have reportedly been rehired.

The JFK Presidential Library and Museum admissions and front-of-the-house workers were laid off last Tuesday following a President Trump executive order. Because no other JFK Library workers were trained to deal with ticketing and admissions, the library was forced to shut down that day.

The library since opened back up with employees from the director’s office scrambling and staffing the front desk.

But now, the five admissions and front-of-the-house workers are coming back, according to the JFK Library Foundation.

“As the Foundation that supports the JFK Library, we are relieved that all five of the JFK Library staff members who were let go last week have been reinstated,” the Foundation said in a statement.

“They are all critical to the Library revenue generating operations, which can now resume as normal, and it is wonderful to have our valued colleagues back,” the JFK Library Foundation added.

The five employees have all worked at the JFK Library for less than a year, and were among the probationary federal workers targeted by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The laid-off employees’ salaries are “not funded by taxpayer dollars,” a person close to the situation at the library told the Herald last week.

“There was no government efficiency gained here,” the source added.

Tickets generate revenue for the library, and these admissions’ positions had been funded from tickets and events revenue. Most of these workers make less than $60,000.

“The revenue generated here exceeds the salaries that are paid for,” the source said.

With the five employees coming back, there are now 31 total employees at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum.

The JFK Library on Columbia Point in Dorchester is dedicated to the memory of the 35th president and “to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world,” its website reads.

“Located on a ten-acre park, overlooking the sea that he loved and the city that launched him to greatness, the Library stands as a vibrant tribute to the life and times of John F. Kennedy,” the site continues. “Come tour our Museum which portrays the life, leadership, and legacy of President Kennedy, conveys his enthusiasm for politics and public service, and illustrates the nature of the office of the President.”

Students and scholars can also conduct research there using its collection of historical materials chronicling mid-20th century politics and JFK’s life and administration.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is one of 16 presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration and supported, in part, by the Kennedy Library Foundation.

Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency team has been sweeping through federal agencies, as the Trump administration moves to lay off thousands of federal workers.

The DOGE team has roamed from agency to agency, tapping into computer systems, digging into budgets and searching for waste, fraud and abuse, while lawsuits pile up claiming Trump and DOGE are violating the law.

Musk has called for the U.S. to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government as part of the push to radically cut spending and restructure its priorities.

Herald wire services were used in this report.