The National Security Agency recently fulfilled a goal to shed around 2,000 employees, according to three people familiar with the spy agency. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the milestone has not been made public. An NSA spokesperson declined to comment.

The purge reflects months-long pressure by the second Trump administration to shrink the federal government and clean out alleged bloat and politicization in the intelligence community. Employees at the nation’s various spy agencies were initially extended deferred-resignation offers in February, and in May, news broke of the downsizing goals for the intel community and NSA specifically .

As in other federal agencies , some workers were fired, others quit, and still others accepted the deferred-resignati

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