After the wave of federal shots during the weekend as part of the mission of President Donald Trump to reduce the federal government with the Efficiency Department of the Government of Elon Musk, hundreds of government workers were informed that their terminations had been rescinded .
The employees of the National Nuclear Safety Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Agriculture received a notice that they were no longer fired from their government positions.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, speaks during a protest against the president of the United States, Donald Trump and the early plan of Dege Elon Musk to close the consumer’s financial protection office against the CFPB headquarters in Washington, DC, February 10, 2025.
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On February 13, hundreds of employees of the National Nuclear Safety Administration were fired in the wave of endings of the Mass Trump administration, but the next day, the Department of Energy arrested the layoffs of hundreds of employees working for the key agency that keeps the United States Nuclear Artanque, according to Fuentes.
However, energy department officials could not contact some critical nuclear workers, since they try to hire them again, according to an internal email obtained by ABC News.
But on Tuesday, all but 28 of the approximately 300 employees of the NSA dismissed had been collected, several sources told ABC News.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, which shot 1,000 test employees earlier this week, is also working to re-hire several employees who worked in the veteran crisis line, Senator Tammy Duckworth, D-Bill., Posted in x.
“My office has spoken personally with federal employees who worked for the direct veteran crisis line and supported the VA claims process,” said Duckworth, together with Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Conn., In a press call With journalists on Wednesday afternoon.
“Now, after raising these cases when you go and talk about them, it seems that, fortunately, at least some of these employees will be hired,” he added.
Elon Musk speaks at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on February 11, 2025.
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Several employees of the Department of Agriculture who work in Aviar influenza were notified that they had been fired during the weekend, but the department is working to rescind those letters of termination and “quickly rectify the situation,” according to a USDA statement on Tuesday.
And only a few hours after about 950 employees of the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health and the human service were verbally told that they had fired them on February 14, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He terminated the endingsAnd, according to the reports, an official notice of the dismissals of the IHS was never sent.
Last week, while talking at the Oval office next to Trump, Musk acknowledged that he and Doge “will make mistakes, but we will act quickly to correct any error.”
The White House recognized Sunday night that some federal government employees who took the offer to buy “bifurcation on the road” were also subsequently dismissed or released, and that this was a mistake.
A personnel management office official told ABC News that some employees who responded to the purchase offer before the deadline staff.
But with respect to the hiring and the relevant of federal employees, the Trump and Dge administration have not characterized decisions as “errors.”
When asked Tuesday if Trump was worried about employees who were fired and hired during the weekend, specifically to nuclear weapons security workers, the president said: “No, at all.”
“I think we have to do what we have to do,” Trump said, arguing that his work has been “incredible.”
President Donald Trump talks to the media in Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 18, 2025.
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“If we feel that, in some cases, they will shoot the people and then return to some people, not all, because many people were released,” he continued, before promoting that size of the size of the government is part of the reason why it was elected.
Stephen Miller, deputy director of policy personnel, defended the process of dismissing and avoiding employees, describing it as “quite standard when it is reducing the government” and saying that “it would not use the term error.”
“You make cuts, you evaluate those cuts, you see who needs to be hired, who needs to be saved, who needs to be revalue,” Miller told CNN on Tuesday afternoon.
Youri Benadjaoud of ABC News contributed to this report.
