Some of the biggest cuts were made at the Energy Department, which began laying off staff members on Thursday, according to three people familiar with the matter. Around 1,000 federal workers
More than 300 of those workers were employed at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the nation's nuclear weapons fleet, and about 50 were at the department's loan programs office, which helps bring new energy technologies to market, two of the people said
In addition, hundreds of federal employees were fired at both the Bonneville Power Administration and the Western Area Power Administration, which oversee much of the Western grid, the people said.
Terminations also continued at the U.S. Forest Service, an agency within the Agriculture Department, which started to lay off roughly 3,400
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said that she knew of "potentially over 100" federal workers in her sparsely populated state who were being laid off and that the administration's response to her inquiries about the cuts had been "evasive and inadequate."
"Indiscriminate workforce cuts aren't efficient and won't fix the federal budget, but they will hurt good people who have answered the call to public service to do important work for our nation."
Senator Patty Murray, of Washington, said on Friday that she had heard from workers on the ground that about 400 probationary employees were terminated at the Bonneville Power Administration, an action that she worried would harm the reliability of the grid.
"This includes everyone from electricians and engineers to biologists to line workers to cybersecurity experts, and so many others," Ms. Murray said in a statement. "These are literally the people who help keep the lights on - and now they're being fired on a whim because Trump and Elon Musk don't have a clue about what they do and why it's important."
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