On Tuesday, the Trump administration cut more than 10% of the workforce at the National Science Foundation, an independent institution supporting cutting edge scientific research, and a wide-ranging purge of federal workers with probation status that began last week. has been added.
Foundation spokesman Michael England said in a statement that the agency had fired 168 probation employees and “we had around 1,450 career employees prior to the cuts.”
“We appreciate these employees for their services to the NSF and their contributions to moving forward with the agency's mission,” he said.
The Trump administration ordered agencies last week to end most of their estimated 200,000 government workers on probation, with mass shootings beginning to pass through the government, with some departments firing more than 1,000 employees at a time I did. Other agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, are preparing to fire thousands more employees this week.
Over the weekend, cuts targeting scientists and public health officials were rattled through civil servants. An estimated 1,200 employees at the National Institutes of Health, the National Institutes of Health, have already been denied. NSF employees cut a full 25-50% reduction in the workforce, as those familiar with the issues they spoke about the terms of anonymity were not authorized to publicly discuss the plan. I was told earlier this month to expect.
Workers on probation do not receive the same protections that many other federal employees have. Probationary periods tend to last a year, but they can be longer in certain positions.
The NSF and NIH are two cornerstones of US public research funding. NSF focuses on non-medical science research and supports advanced research into quantum computing, artificial intelligence, space observation, and the creation of new advanced materials used in electronic devices.
The list of scientific breakthroughs achieved through NSF funding is vast, but the foundation is a socially changing invention, including the Internet, smartphones, MRI scans, Lasik ophthalmology, 3D printing, kidney transplants, and lithium-ion batteries. It supports development. Radar, LED lights, and even the language learning app Duolingo.
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