US nuclear weapons agency hit by layoffs

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The National Nuclear Security Administration dismissed hundreds of employees as part of Trump's effort to shrink the federal workforce.
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The Department of Energy has paused the firings of hundreds of employees who work for a key agency maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees.
Workers at the nuclear weapons agency are frantically being called back.
Mass layoffs that happened Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are being paused, ABC News reports. The layoffs were part of Donald Trump’s gutting of key federal workforces — including the people maintaining the country’s nuclear stockpile.
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
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