Decimation

decimation: historical -- the killing of one in every ten of a group of people as a punishment for the whole group (originally with reference to a mutinous Roman legion).

From NBC: 

CDC to lose one-tenth of workforce under Trump team probationary job cuts

With a $9.2 billion core budget, the CDC is charged with protecting Americans from outbreaks and other public health threats.

From the Washington Post:

Musk, whose U.S. DOGE Service is leading the drive to downsize government, over the weekend shared triumphant messages on X, the social media platform he owns.

Close to 2 a.m. Monday, he reposted a picture of himself in a gladiator outfit and declared he was destroying "the woke mind virus."

A few hours after the post, Downey, the U.S. Forest Service employee, climbed into her car. She drove a half-hour to her office and signed her name to a letter putting an

end to the income she relies on to support three children, an ailing mother and a husband who just lost his own job.

Before she walked out, she jotted five words above her signature: "Received and accepted under duress."

From USA Today:

Trump admin scrambles to rehire hundreds of nuclear weapons workers

The Trump administration rescinded firings of hundreds of employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the nation's arsenal of nuclear weapons, in a reversal that has fueled scrutiny over Elon Musk's efforts to cut the federal workforce.

A spokesman for the Department of Energy, which the semi-autonomous NNSA falls under, told USA TODAY less than 50 workers had their jobs terminated. About 325 NNSA workers initially received notices late last week that they had been laid off, according to Reuters.

The dismissals are part of Trump's wave of mass firings throughout the federal workforce, engineered by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. The original notices prompted one senior NNSA staff member Friday to issue a public call to action before the terminations were halted.

From Politico:

Trump’s cuts hit red states, triggering GOP pushback

GOP lawmakers try to intervene with the Trump administration as local fallout grows.

Republican lawmakers are pushing back against sweeping cuts to the federal government launched by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as their downsizing crusade begins to hit GOP constituents.

A growing number of GOP lawmakers are trying to intervene with the Trump administration and are weighing legislation to circumvent the changes. But with the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Management and Budget moving at a rapid clip and flouting federal law to carve up the government, the lawmakers face monumental challenges in getting the White House to spare their constituents from the ax.

 From The Louisiana Illuminator:

Trump administration fires 20 immigration judges, amid mass dismissals of federal workers

Despite a backlog of nearly 3.7 million cases in U.S. immigration court, the Trump administration has fired 20 immigration judges without an explanation, according to a union representing federal workers.

That included seven assistant chief immigration judges and a class of 13 immigration judges hired in December who had completed their training and had yet to be sworn in, according to the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, the union that also represents immigration judges.

Additionally, two immigration judges and five senior managers have been dismissed since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, bringing the total removed from the U.S. Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review to 27, the union said. Some heard cases as well as scheduling deportation hearings.

From Jefferson Public Radio:

Thousands of employees with the U.S. Forest Service were fired over the weekend, including some in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

Up until this weekend, Tanya Torst thought it was safe to say she was a stellar employee of the U.S. Forest Service. In just shy of two years working as the North Zone Partnership Coordinator, she won a handful of awards for pulling together projects to protect rural communities from wildfires across California's North State.

She said she had a panic attack when a termination letter from the Forest Service arrived.

“The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest,” the email read.

Similar notices were sent out to around 3,400 other Forest Service employees this weekend, part of President Trump’s efforts to cut the size of the federal government. The firings targeted relatively new hires still on their probationary period, which generally lasts up to a couple years.

From WTSP Tampa Bay 10:

'President Trump, please come': Tampa VA union president offers invite to show effect of layoffs

"Hundreds" of more employees also might take deferred resignation offers and leave by the end of the summer.

 From mass layoffs to deferred resignations, the federal workforce has been reduced by nearly 90,000 employees, since President Trump took office almost a month ago.

That includes at least three in Tampa Bay who were probationary employees for Veterans Affairs, including workers at James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, according to Christopher Young, the American Federation of Government Employees Local 547 acting president.

Oh my sweet summer child, whatever gave you the idea that Grandpa Syphilis gives a single, solitary fuck about veterans?

From The New York Times:

F.D.A.’s Food Safety Chief Resigns Over Trump Administration Layoffs

The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

From NPR:

National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce

From The Gander:

Anger, chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs

...While much of the administration’s attention was focused on disrupting bureaucracy in Washington, the broad-based effort to slash the government workforce was impacting a far wider swath of workers. As layoff notices were sent out agency by agency, federal employees from Michigan to Florida were left reeling from being told that their services were no longer needed.

In a sign of how chaotic the firings have been, some who received layoff notices had already accepted the administration’s deferred resignation offer, under which they were supposed to be paid until Sept. 30 if they agreed to quit, raising questions about whether others who signed the deal would nonetheless be fired. On Friday evening, the Office of Personnel Management, which serves as a human resources department for the federal government, acknowledged that some employees may have received termination notices in error and said the buyouts agreements would be honored.

“This has been slash and burn,” said Nicholas Detter, who had been working in Kansas as a natural resource specialist, helping farmers reduce soil and water erosion, until he was fired by email late Thursday night. He said there seemed to be little thought about how employees and the farmers and ranchers he helped would be impacted.

“None of this has been done thoughtfully or carefully,” he said.

The Vandals were more judicious during the Sack of Rome.

On the other hand, burning it all down is so much easier once you've sacked the fire department and scrapped all the emergency equipment.  

No Half Measures