The Interior Department, EPA and other federal agencies are spelling out in court exactly how many staffers were dismissed in mass purges orchestrated by the Trump administration.
Sworn declarations attached to a pair of lawsuits filed on behalf of fired probationary employees provide a unique public enumeration of which people the administration slashed from the executive branch. The court filings also shed light on agency actions as the officials simultaneously comply with judges’ orders to rehire the fired workers while appealing the judge’s decisions.
For example, Interior official Mark Green on Monday said the department had “reinstated, by canceling termination actions for, approximately ninety percent of the 1,710 individuals whom the Department had terminated” during their respective probationary or trial periods.
Interior has not otherwise publicly stated whether terminated employees had been reinstated, as was ordered last week by two federal judges.
