The DOGE push to downsize government employees will hit the coalition that elected Trump,' a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, wrote.

President Donald Trump is moving fast to reduce the size of the 2.4 million federal civil servants. Workers in their probationary periods began getting termination notices this week.

Thousands of recently-hired federal workers have been terminated as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk escalate efforts to purge the workforce.

Though many bristled at Donald Trump’s description of the civil service as bloated and ineffective, some of the 75,000 U.S. federal workers who the Office of Personnel Management says accepted a resignation buyout were ready to retire anyway.

The USDA employee was among thousands of federal workers across the country hit with layoffs that began on Thursday with little prior notice, targeting probationary workers—those who have been employed by the federal government for less than one or two years and are easier to fire.