Many familiar faces exit DOE nuclear complex during Trump 2.0

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作   者：

Wayne Barber; 

期刊名称：

Radwaste & Materials Monitor

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2025 年 18 卷 17 期

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2-3

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During the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term he has moved aggressively to reduce the federal workforce and the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex has not been immune.Trump’s second term,which started Jan.20,hit the 100-day mark this week on April 30.A document shared with Exchange Monitor in February indicated DOE’s Office of Environmental Management was losing 155 people outside of its Washington,D.C.,headquarters to the Deferred Resignation Program,also dubbed the"Fork in the Road."Since then a second round of federal buyouts has been launched.The 155 employee figure would represent more than 10% of the Environmental Management office workforce,given that there were 1,260 federal employees there at the end of fiscal 2023.Congressional Democrats have been pushing the administration and Energy Secretary Chris Wright for details on job cuts,including termination of probationary hires,and how they affect DOE’s work.In February,about 300 employees of the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration(NNSA)lost their jobs although most were soon rehired.In addition,a leaked memo that received much news coverage said the government considered huge swaths of the DOE workforce non-essential.At the Environmental Management office,Candice Robertson,the head of day-to-day operations,left her job in March after President Trump’s directive clamping down on telework arrangements.Another former acting head of Environmental Management(EM),Jim Owendoff is also existing via a buyout.