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• Trump Administration Starts Layoffs, Feds Start Missing Checks as Shutdown Continues - October 15, 2025

• FedManager

  As the federal government shutdown continues the Trump Administration made good on its threat to lay off federal employees.
  
  About 4,200 workers were recently issued reduction in force (RIF) notices, according to a court filing. They include workers from the Departments of Commerce, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security, and Treasury.

  Among those initially laid off were 1,200 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, about half of those layoffs were reversed. Those initially fired and brought back included employees working on global health, measles and Ebola outbreaks, and suicide prevention.

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