Elon Musk’s D.O.G.E to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees
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According to an NBC News report, the Trump administration is removing hundreds of top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials this week in what is described as a targeted purge of high-ranking career employees. Of course, this is led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), which has taken control of federal workforce reductions under Trump’s second term. The report claimed that a centralized plan has been in place for weeks, identifying high-ranking officials in every component of DHS who are set to be dismissed. The firings are expected to hit Senior Executive Service (SES) employees and General Schedule 15 (GS-15) personnel, some of the highest-ranking career officials in the federal system. Hundreds of DHS officials to be removed under D.O.G.E orders The removals come days after widespread firings at FEMA, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) began Friday night. Those dismissals, described by an administration official as “necessary reductions in waste”, were part of a broader effort to cut down the federal workforce. Unlike last week’s cuts, however, this latest wave of firings isn’t about downsizing. NBC says that the goal is to remove DHS officials who may be “grinding things to a halt” by resisting Trump’s policies. “These people put themselves in a terrible position, and they need to be removed,” a senior administration official reportedly told NBC. DHS is responsible for immigration enforcement, border security, and national safety measures, making it one of the most critical agencies under Trump’s second term. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—two key divisions of DHS—have been central to Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Trump’s White House defends firings as a “necessary restructuring” Asked whether firing senior officials could impact DHS’s ability to carry out immigration policies, a…
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