The US is pushing to streamline its apparatus, nearly 10,000 employees were laid off.

The administration of US President Donald Trump laid off nearly 10,000 employees on February 14 in a large-scale staff reduction campaign.

Reuters reported that more than 9,500 US federal government employees working in energy, land management, health , and retired military care agencies were laid off on February 14.

About 75,000 employees have already accepted government compensation to voluntarily leave, according to a White House announcement. The total number of employees is equivalent to more than 3% of the 2.3 million federal civilian employees.

President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk are taking a bold step in streamlining the federal government.

Mr. Trump believes that the federal government is too big and that too much money is being wasted and cheated. The U.S. federal government has a debt of $36 trillion and ran a deficit of $1.8 trillion last year.

The campaign to cut staff by Mr. Trump and his adviser Elon Musk has caused confusion and anger among federal employees. Attorneys general in 14 states are suing billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) he runs for exercising "nearly unchecked" power.

Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington DC on February 14 began hearing arguments from the parties on the request to prevent Mr. Musk and DOGE from accessing data of federal agencies and carrying out employee dismissals, according to AP.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson also ordered the administration to halt plans for mass layoffs, data deletions and funding cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had been sued by a union at the agency to stop the administration from dismantling it.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is preparing to lay off thousands of workers next week, a move that could strain resources ahead of Americans' April 15 income tax deadline, Reuters reported.

Most recently, DOGE staff arrived at the Pentagon on February 14 to begin working with the US Department of Defense as military officials predicted billions of dollars in budget cuts.

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