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US consumer watchdog broadens layoffs beyond probationary staff, sources say

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A new category of full-time employees at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received termination notices on Thursday .

The firings are part of a sweeping effort by President Donald Trump to scale back the federal bureaucracy.

Firings had also begun elsewhere in the federal government, including at the Department of Education and the Small Business Administration .

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