"WASHINGTON — More than 1,100 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency received notice this week that they were deemed to be on probationary status and warning they could be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN.

Probationary employees receiving the email have been working at the agency for less than a year. The emails began to go out late on Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union official.

The same message will be sent to other agency workforces, a White House official said. Across the US government, the latest data shows there are more than 220,000 employees on probation.

“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804,” the EPA email to probationary employees reads. “The process for probationary removal is that you receive a notice of termination, and your employment is ended immediately.”"

Hannah Rabinowitz, Ella Nilsen, Alayna Treene and Rene Marsh report for CNN January 31, 2025. [2]

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"Zeldin: Anyone Who Isn’t ‘Committed To’ Trump’s Directives Shouldn’t Be At EPA" (The Hill) [3]