President Musk's DOGE cuts have hit the IRS! NBC Philadelphia is reporting that around 400 Philadelphia IRS employees were laid off on Thursday as part of Musk's DOGE cutbacks. These were employees who were still in their probationary period, and therefore subject to immediate dismissal with no cause or union protection.

One key result is that almost every probationary federal employee, which generally means people who came on board within the past year or two and who haven’t yet qualified for the strong employment protections that government jobs are generally known for–reportedly 200,000 federal employees–faces the possibility of being let go.