NSF Fires 170 Workers

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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

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The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers in a Zoom call on Tuesday morning as part of the Trump administration’s agenda to reduce the federal workforce.

The terminated workers were told their employment would end at 5 pm EST today .

Many of the people terminated on Tuesday work as program managers and experts who make decisions about funding by aligning research proposals with the right programs.

Temporary rotation worker and other workers at NSF were told in January that they could accept the so-called fork-in-the-road resignation deal that would allow them to continue to draw a salary through September .

Workers have been receiving termination letters from the Office of Personnel Management saying that they or their position no longer has value to the government.

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