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The US Energy Department recognizes 8,500 jobs as “unimportant” – including positions preparing for nuclear employees to respond to an Emon Musk government order
Those “unimportant” papers accounts for half of the Department’s 17,500 positions and can be targeted to future disputes, according to a document seen in Bloomberg News. The list includes positions of the whole department, including the National Nuclear Security Administration.
The Energy Department is conducting an agency-wide review of its organizational structure at the behest of President Donald Trump, who has empowered Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to identify ways to cut costs and downsize the federal workforce. Each agency is ordered to come to plans to prevent their staff.
“No final decisions made and many plans are still considered,” the department said to a statement.
According to the document, 500 of the 3,000 positions of the National Nuclear Security Administration are considered as important.
The Associated Press was first reported the document.
The agency earlier this year weakens the firing of hundreds of workers responsible for designing and maintaining nuclear nuclear cache.
Earlier:Firing nuclear specialties reminded of energy specialists
The energy department has a running mission from the country’s cache handling of emergency oil protection of electricity from cyberthreats. Almost 1,300 staff is already placed on administrative leave after receiving the offering. The agency also cuts 555 test workers, shown in the document.
The Democrats of Congress, including Senator Patty Murray of Washington and representative Marcy Kaptur in Ohio, told the cutbacks of the National Security department.
“Insusable cuts of cuts across the Department of Energy risking the ability to fulfill its mission,” lawmakers have said a statement. “Gutting the department will raise energy costs for American FA
This story originally shown Fortune.com
