According to several American media, the administration of Donald Trump is trying to rehire employees licensed massively last Thursday of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the organization responsible for monitoring the security of nuclear installations.
But the cancellation of dismissals promises to be laborious, according to NBC Newsbecause licensed persons were blocked on their federal messaging accounts, and the administration does not have their personal contact details. An email sent to NNSA employees on Friday and obtained by the television channel specifies that “the dismissal letters of certain NNSA trainee employees are canceled, but we do not have a good way to contact these people.”
Mass layoffs
According to information from the reuters news agency and the American daily New York Timesaround 300 people working in the NNSA nuclear security were dismissed. “A spokesperson for the energy department challenged these figures, saying that less than 50 people had been dismissed,” said the New York Times.
Democratic senator Patty Murray alerted On the dismissal “random” and thoughtless “, in the state of Washington, of at least a dozen people working on the Hanford nuclear site, including” security engineers “responsible for cleaning and monitoring the site. “The Trump administration dismissed American nuclear staff without realizing that they supervise all of the country’s weapons stocks. It is not government efficiency. It is incompetence. They make America less safe, “said the Democratic representative of Colorado, Jason Crow.
The National Nuclear Security Administration is in fact important. She is responsible for “maintenance, restoration and safety of the United States more than 3,000 nuclear warheads. It also oversees the production of new nuclear heads”, details the New York Times. It also performs research in terms of nuclear propulsion systems for submarines. According to the newspaper, the NNSA was carrying out seven warhead modernization programs for the American Ministry of Defense in 2024.
This failure falls particularly badly because the agency faced last year for difficulties in recruiting and loyalty of staff, reports the American daily newspaper.
Overall reduction in the US administration
The employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are part of the 1200 to 2000 workers from the energy department who received dismissal letters. They are more widely written in a vast workforce reduction operation of the US administration wanted by President Donald Trump, and supervised by billionaire Elon Musk, placed at the head of the “Department of Government Efficient”.
According to American media, nearly 10,000 civil servants were dismissed last week. They are added to the 75,000 people who accepted the offer of the voluntary departure government in exchange for paying a salary to the fall.