A court filing revealed the Trump administration fired over 4,000 federal workers on Friday due to the ongoing partial government shutdown.
According to The New York Post, the mass layoffs will affect government workers in at least seven Cabinet-level agencies. Per the outlet, the information was revealed in a court filing by federal employee labor unions suing to stop the Trump administration from firing workers during the shutdown.
Most layoffs occurred at the Treasury Department (about 1,446 employees) and the Department of Health and Human Services (up to 1,200 employees).
The Department of Education fired 466 employees; Housing and Urban Development laid off 442; Commerce terminated 315; Energy cut 187; and Homeland Security laid off 176.
The Justice Department filing indicates ot