Trump’s Mass Firings of Federal Workers Spread Chaos Nationwide

The Energy Department fired a grants officer without giving his manager a heads up. The IRS tried to fire thousands of employees, but an email glitch kept many in the dark. The Environmental Protection Agency locked an attorney out of his office before he could pick up his law school diploma.

Terminated federal workers across the government describe a haphazard and disorganized effort to slash the size of the federal government.

That chaos is the result of President Donald Trump’s disordered demand to cut as many as 200,000 recent hires at federal agencies. The mass firings have reached nearly ...