Firings, freezes and layoffs: A look at Trump's moves against federal employees and programs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : Trump confirmed the move in a conversation with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, claiming, “it’s a very common thing to do,” and saying that he would “put good people in there that will be very good.
66% : Foreign aid and developmentIn his first week in office, Trump issued an executive order directing a 90-day pause on most U.S. foreign assistance disbursed through the State Department.
65% : That move followed an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners, programs Trump has called “discrimination.
54% : CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Changeover among federal government agencies is normal when a new administration comes to Washington, with presidents regularly dismissing appointees selected by predecessors from opposing political parties.
53% : The memo, which noted that employees who leave their posts voluntarily will receive about seven months of salary — but must chose to do so by Feb. 6 — listed four directives it said Trump is mandating for the federal workforce, including that most workers return to their offices full-time.
50% : Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, a current official and a former official at the U.S. Agency for International Development confirmed to The Associated Press the reason given for the move and also said that several hundred contractors based in Washington and elsewhere were laid off.
47% : Diversity, equity and inclusionOn his second day back at the White House, Trump moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off.
34% : On Tuesday, Trump fired its acting chair, Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve as an NLRB member, according to Josh Boxerman, of the National Employment Law Project.
30% : It was not immediately clear which prosecutors were affected by the order, or how many who worked on the investigations into Trump remained with the department as Trump took office last week.
24% : Burrows also noted that Jocelyn Samuels, another commission member appointed by a Democratic president — Biden — had also been fired as Trump took office, saying their removals were “unprecedented and will undermine the efforts of this independent agency to do the important work of protecting employees from discrimination, supporting employers’ compliance efforts, and expanding public awareness and understanding of federal employment laws.”
20% : Trump has fired at least 17 of them across the federal government, including inspectors he appointed in his first term.
13% : The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of Trump, abrupt terminations targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team investigating Trump.

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