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The Pentagon said Friday it will cut 5,400 jobs as part of President Donald Trump's effort to reduce the federal workforce.
The cuts, which will take place next week, are part of the 50,000 job losses at the Defense Department that some had predicted, but they may not be the last. A senior official, Darin Selnick, said the Pentagon will implement a hiring freeze and could ultimately reduce its 950,000-person civilian force by 5% to 8%.
The latest cuts are a quick fix led by tech billionaire Elon Musk that has laid off more than 20,000 workers and dismantled programs across the US government, from foreign aid to financial oversight.
The legal challenges have had mixed results so far, as federal judges have refused to block the layoffs. A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for Trump to furlough more than 2,000 workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
However, the US Supreme Court blocked Trump from immediately firing the head of the Office of Special Counsel, an independent oversight agency.
Also on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ordered 1,500 employees to be transferred from its headquarters in Washington to offices across the country, according to two sources. According to government figures, roughly one in four FBI employees currently work in Washington.
In some cases, the Trump administration has tried to rehire those it has laid off, including workers overseeing nuclear safety and the bird flu response.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it would bring back previously laid-off workers who oversee a health plan for 137,000 people sickened by toxic exposure after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The CDC also said it would reinstate two research contracts it had canceled to investigate cancer rates among emergency responders after facing criticism from Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
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