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Consequences of firing government employees - USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

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Justice Department fired official whose husband operated controversial ICEBlock app

Carolyn Feinstein said she initially thought the message sent to her private email address on a late Friday afternoon was a scheme or a prank. It turned out that she was being fired from her federal job. Once Feinstein read the email, she discovered her work cellphone was no longer operating.

Feinstein's decade of work as a forensic auditor for the Justice Department's Office of Trustee — which helps oversee bankruptcies — ended on July 18, when her employment was terminated in a three-paragraph message sent by an agency administrator.

In the days after the ICEBlock app was publicized in reporting by CNN and later by Trump ally and social media figure Laura Loomer, Feinstein said she notified her employers about threats she and her husband had been receiving from critics.

Feinstein said she was fired days after, with the Justice Department alleging the termination was "based on your lack of candor during an internal inquiry."
 
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Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos

Whoops! I know many people in the thread have opined that we don't need these people, but now the Administration disagrees, considering these roles important to public safety.


The National Weather Service has received permission to hire hundreds of employees, CNN reported Tuesday. That includes 450 meteorologists, hydrologists, and radar technicians to replace the ones that were let go from the agency at the behest of former DOGE chief Elon Musk.

The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts and early retirement incentives.
 
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Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos

Whoops! I know many people in the thread have opined that we don't need these people, but now the Administration disagrees, considering these roles important to public safety.


The National Weather Service has received permission to hire hundreds of employees, CNN reported Tuesday. That includes 450 meteorologists, hydrologists, and radar technicians to replace the ones that were let go from the agency at the behest of former DOGE chief Elon Musk.

The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts and early retirement incentives.
To be fair, the situation has changed. They're now actually checking to see if these positions are necessary, as opposed to randomly sacking people.

What this does to morale is anyone's guess.
 
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Trump administration fires McGruff the Crime Dog

Now, the Trump administration has ended federal funding for a program that in recent years worked to bring McGruff into present-day efforts to protect young people from harm caused by fentanyl and counterfeit prescription pills. Advocates fear any cuts to public education drug programs threaten to reverse progress in the 21st century war on drugs.
 
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Trump administration fires McGruff the Crime Dog

Now, the Trump administration has ended federal funding for a program that in recent years worked to bring McGruff into present-day efforts to protect young people from harm caused by fentanyl and counterfeit prescription pills. Advocates fear any cuts to public education drug programs threaten to reverse progress in the 21st century war on drugs.
I used to play McGruff at schools, and during Red Ribbon Week did demos at all the schools with our dogs and talked about the dangers of drug use.
 
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