Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned agency staff to either “embrace” the Trump administration’s changes or plan to retire.

Those layoffs, part of a Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to reduce spending in part by shrinking the federal workforce, include an estimated 1,300 purged from the Center for Disease Control — 10 percent of its workforce.

A judge has temporarily halted the firings of 11 CIA officers who were instructed to resign or risk immediate termination due to their temporary positions with the spy agency’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and access programs, according to their lawyer.

In an administrative stay issued following a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Trenga gave the government until Thursday to file a response to the officers’ request for a temporary restraining order and scheduled arguments for Monday.

“These people are being fired just because of an assumption that’s been made that they are leftists,” said attorney Kevin Carroll, himself a former CIA undercover officer.

A pause in the case gives the court more time to consider legal arguments.

Carroll said his clients are among 51 CIA officers temporarily assigned to DEIA programs. They were placed on paid administrative leave just two days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order on January 22 ending such programs across the government.

He said the officers were summoned to the visitors center outside the agency’s high-security perimeter in Langley, Virginia, and their identification badges “seized.”

According to copies of unclassified notices the officers were given that Reuters reviewed, they were ordered to accept three options by 5 p.m. on Wednesday: retirement by October 1, resignation effective Tuesday, or termination on May 20.

Carroll said the orders violated CIA administrative procedures, the Administrative Procedures Act, and his clients’ constitutional rights.

With reporting from Reuters

The Trump administration has been blocked from moving three incarcerated trans women to men’s facilities and denying them affirming care, per yet another judge’s order.

Judge Royce Lamberth notes that the three plaintiffs (who are among several incarcerated trans women who have filed lawsuits against Trump’s executive order on gender) said they would be at a “substantially elevated risk of physical and sexual violence” if transferred, and that withholding their medical care would cause “severe harm” — and lawyers for the administration “did not substantially dispute those facts.”

Semafor reports that the Department of Homeland Security has budgeted as much as $200 million for its new ad campaign warning migrants in the country illegally that “we will find you and deport you.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the two-year “nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign,” which includes TV, radio and digital spots, on Monday evening.

In the initial ad shared by Noem, she praises President Donald Trump for “securing the border” before telling migrants that “we will hunt you down” for breaking laws.

“Criminals are not welcome in the United States,” Noem says.

Semafor reviewed vendor contracts for the project.

The United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired “several” agency employees who are working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.

In a statement, the agency said it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

“Although several positions supporting [avian flu] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters,” a USDA spokesperson said in a statement. “USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service frontline positions are considered public safety positions, and we are continuing to hire the workforce necessary to ensure the safety and adequate supply of food to fulfill our statutory mission.”

Needless to say, Zeldin did not come across piles of cash sitting in a vehicle outside of a bank, as it appears that Roberts misinterpreted a report about the EPA chief attempting to rescind grants awarded by the Biden administration aimed at clean-energy projects.

Justin Baragona untangles what was said.

The JFK Library in Boston is closed indefinitely due to an executive order by President Trump, a spokesman from the JFK Library Foundation said.

WBZ-TV has learned the Kennedy Library got a call from the National Archives Tuesday morning, informing them all probationary employees were being laid off effective immediately.

The library closed at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. “Due to an Executive Order concerning a ‘reduction in force (RIF),’ the JFK Library and Museum will be closed to the public until further notice,” a sign posted on the door of the library said.

Reporter Jamie Dupree noticed a slight error/exaggeration in a DOGE report on cutting government waste.

That’s $8 million, not $8 billion.

Donald Trump’s assault on workers should be “cautionary tale” for Britain, the UK’s leading trade union official has warned, amid the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform.

Trade Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Paul Nowak said the president’s actions have shown that people considering supporting Reform UK could lose their jobs if Mr Farage were to follow his lead on rolling back workers’ rights should he become prime minister.

Mr Nowak will be taking his warning to a major summit in Washington DC just a short distance from the White House as he plans a fightback against Reform’s surge in the UK polls.

Bloomberg reports that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has warned employees that polygraph tests will be used to help crack down on leaks that agency officials say have foiled immigration raids.

All polygraph tests must include a question on unauthorized communication with media and nonprofits.