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More than 2,700 Health and Human Services jobs were part of a surge in mass layoffs reported to the state. But Maryland’s job losses go beyond federal workers.
IRS has shrunk by 25%, mostly through voluntary separation incentives, while the Social Security Administration plans to shed 7,000 employees this fiscal year.
The Trump administration says federal employees, while at work, can try to persuade their colleagues to adopt their own religious beliefs.
The Trump administration divulged to a federal court where it wanted to cut the federal workforce earlier this year, offering a rare look into the scope of its plans to reduce the size of the government.