President Trump’s administration is taking seriously his executive order telling agency heads to “initiate large-scale reductions in force.”
To that end, the Directors of both the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management have sent a memo to all agency heads demanding a plan to initiate these mass layoffs by March 13 so they can get this underway.
It isn’t being issued across the board, as there are personnel areas where there can be no layoffs. But this will have a great effect on sliming down the size of the administration and it is very much long overdue.
Here’s the news from Fox:
The Trump administration will direct heads of agencies across the federal government to prepare to initiate “large-scale reductions in force” and develop reorganization plans by mid-March, Fox News Digital has learned.
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the memo that will be sent Wednesday to agency heads by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought and acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell. The memo directs them to prepare to eliminate roles and submit plans for reorganization by March 13.
The memo states, however, that government positions “necessary to meet law enforcement, border security, national security, immigration enforcement, or public safety responsibilities” are exempt from the order, as well as officials nominated and appointed to positions requiring presidential appointment or Senate confirmation, officials in the Executive Office of the President, and U.S. Postal Service workers.
The memo is titled “guidance on agency RIF and reorganization plans requested by implementing the president’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ workforce optimization initiative.”
“The federal government is costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt,” the memo states. “At the same time, it is not producing results for the American public.”
“Instead, tax dollars are being siphoned off to fund unproductive and unnecessary programs that benefit radical interest groups while hurting hard-working American citizens,” it continued. “The American people registered their verdict on the bloated, corrupt federal bureaucracy on November 5, 2024 by voting for President Trump and his promises to sweepingly reform the federal government.”
The memo points to the president’s February executive order, which directed agencies to “eliminate waste, bloat and insularity” in order to “empower American families, workers, taxpayers, and our system of Government itself.”
The memo provides guidance to agency heads for the reduction-in-force and reorganization plans, along with instructions for how those plans should be submitted to OMB and OPM.
“President Trump required that ‘Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force, consistent with applicable law,’” the memo states, noting that agencies have to submit reorganization plans “no later than March 13, 2025.”
Get ready for more wailing and screeching from the garbage media. But this is what the American people voted for. President Trump was clear about all of this on the campaign trail and it can’t be denied that this is the will of the American people.