Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative
President Donald Trump signed it on February 11, 2025. Published in the Federal Register on February 14, 2025, 90 FR 9669.
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“On March 27, 2025, HHS announced a rushed and ill-conceived RIF in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order 14210, ‘Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative,’” the Senators wrote. “This is on top of the firing of seven percent of HRSA staff that occurred on February 14, 2025.”
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New Mexico Delegation Continues Fight to Protect Federal Workers
“issued a sweeping Executive Order titled “Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative,” which directed all agency heads to “initiate large-scale reductions in force.” Shortly thereafter, federal agencies across the government began imposing “widespread layoffs” of thousands of probationary employees.”
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Oregon Delegation Demands Reversal of Trump Attacks on Programs Serving Tribal Communities
“We are gravely concerned about the implementation of recent Executive Orders (EO), including EO 14210 entitled “Implementing the President's “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative,” and the implications of reductions in the federal workforce and funding for Indian Country. As you know, the U.S. government has both trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribal Nations.”
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“This includes recent Executive Orders, including EO 14210, that have disrupted services administered or funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), Indian Health Services (IHS), and other Tribal-serving entities which would directly violate the trust and treaty obligations of the United States to Tribal Nations.”
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“We write with significant concerns about the decision to fire 3,400 US Forest Service (USFS) employees in accordance with Executive Order 14210: The Department of Government Efficiency ‘Workforce Optimization Initiative,’ and urge you to immediately reinstate them,” wrote the lawmakers. “The USFS is already critically understaffed, and further employee cuts will have real and immediate consequences for Colorado’s economy, rural”
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Luján, Colleagues to President Trump: Don’t Turn Your Back on Tribal Communities
“We write to express our concern regarding recent reporting that layoffs at the Indian Health Service (IHS) resulting from Executive Order 14210 and OPM guidance will dramatically impact American Indians and Alaska Native (Native) communities’ access to health care. Tribal Nations have a legal and political relationship with the United States, and the federal government has a fundamental obligation to”
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- See: EO 14158, January 20, 2025; EO 14170, January 20, 2025; Presidential Memorandum, January 20, 2025; EO 14356, October 15, 2025