{"id":2901,"date":"2025-09-24T04:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/trump-administration-rehires-laid-off-employees-after-cost-cutting-blitz\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T04:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:47:48","slug":"trump-administration-rehires-laid-off-employees-after-cost-cutting-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/trump-administration-rehires-laid-off-employees-after-cost-cutting-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration rehires laid-off employees after cost-cutting blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Hundreds of US employees fired on Elon Musk\u2019s watch are being asked to return to work, internal memo shows.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Hundreds of federal employees in the United States who lost their jobs in Elon Musk\u2019s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.<\/p>\n<p>The General Services Administration (GSA) has given the employees, who managed government workspaces, until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/23\/nasa-plans-to-send-manned-moon-mission-by-february-2026\">NASA plans to send manned Moon mission by February 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/23\/israel-escalates-bombardment-as-tanks-push-deep-into-gaza-city\">Israel escalates bombardment as tanks push deep into Gaza City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2025\/9\/24\/polish-president-rails-against-european-immigration-climate\">Polish president rails against European immigration, climate policies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 4 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2025\/9\/24\/colombia-blasts-genocidal-israel-and-allies-over-gaza-atrocities\">Colombia blasts genocidal Israel and allies over Gaza atrocities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Those who accept must report for duty on October 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs \u2013 passed along to taxpayers \u2013 to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,\u201d said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becker, who represents owners with government leases at Arco Real Estate Solutions, said the GSA has been in a \u201ctriage mode\u201d for months.<\/p>\n<p>He said the sudden reversal of the downsizing reflects how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Musk\u2019s prior leadership had gone too far, too fast.<\/p>\n<p>The GSA was established in the 1940s to centralise the acquisition and management of thousands of federal workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Its return-to-work request mirrors rehiring efforts at several agencies targeted by DOGE.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it would allow some employees who took a resignation offer to remain on the job.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department has also brought back some employees who took buyouts, while the National Park Service earlier reinstated a number of purged employees.<\/p>\n<p>Critical to the work of such agencies is the GSA, which manages many of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in March, thousands of GSA employees left the agency as part of programmes that encouraged them to resign or take early retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of others \u2013 those subject to the recall notice \u2013 were dismissed as part of an aggressive push to reduce the size of the federal workforce. Though those employees did not show up for work, some continue to get paid.<\/p>\n<p>GSA representatives did not respond to detailed questions about the return-to-work notice, which the agency issued on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>They also declined to discuss the agency\u2019s headcount, staffing decisions or the potential cost overruns generated by reversing its plans to terminate leases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGSA\u2019s leadership team has reviewed workforce actions and is making adjustments in the best interest of the customer agencies we serve and the American taxpayers,\u201d an agency spokesman said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have assailed the indiscriminate approach to slashing costs and jobs by the administration of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Greg Stanton of Arizona, the top Democrat on the subcommittee overseeing the GSA, told the AP that there is no evidence that reductions at the agency \u201cdelivered any savings\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s created costly confusion while undermining the very services taxpayers depend on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DOGE identified the agency, which had about 12,000 employees at the start of the Trump administration, as a\u00a0chief target of its campaign\u00a0to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>A small cohort of Musk\u2019s trusted aides embedded in the GSA\u2019s headquarters, sometimes sleeping on cots on the agency\u2019s sixth floor, and pursued plans to abruptly cancel nearly half of the 7,500 leases in the federal portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>DOGE also wanted the GSA to sell hundreds of federally-owned buildings with the goal of generating billions in savings.<\/p>\n<p>The GSA started by sending more than 800 lease cancellation notices to landlords, in many cases without informing the government tenants. The agency also published a list of hundreds of government buildings that were targeted for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The Government Accountability Office, an independent congressional watchdog, is examining the GSA\u2019s management of its workforce, lease terminations and planned building disposals, and expects to issue findings in the coming months, said David Marroni, a senior GAO official.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of US employees fired on Elon Musk\u2019s watch are being asked to return to work, internal memo shows. Hundreds of federal employees in the United States who lost their jobs in Elon Musk\u2019s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. 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