Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country's weapons stockpile, sources say
Source: CNN
Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration the agency tasked with managing the nations nuclear stockpile as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.
Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees Americas nuclear weapons.
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Some of the fired employees included NNSA staff who are on the ground at facilities where nuclear weapons are built. These staff oversee the contractors who build nuclear weapons, and they inspect these weapons.
It also included employees at NNSA headquarters who write requirements and guidelines for contractors who build nuclear weapons. A source told CNN they believe these individuals were fired because no one has taken anytime to understand what we do and the importance of our work to the nations national security.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/index.html

Lovie777
(17,223 posts)shithole musk republicans and their comrades.
DENVERPOPS
(11,236 posts)they are just blindly following Putin's orders..........
Ilsa
(62,584 posts)Ocelot II
(123,518 posts)RockRaven
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These people are traitors full stop. Their intent is plainly to harm the US in every manner possible, indiscriminately, and they are doing so. And will be every day for at least the next 4 years.
tinymontgomery
(2,790 posts)LiberalLoner
(10,724 posts)Incompetent but ideologically aligned personnel in.
They want to replace PhDs with decades of experience with people like, say, big balls.
What could possibly go wrong?
Lulu KC
(7,308 posts)I can see Homer and Mr. Burns somehow involved.
Seeking relief wherever I can find it. Seriously.
C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)IronLionZion
(47,980 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(52,957 posts)questionseverything
(10,580 posts)Baitball Blogger
(49,463 posts)DBoon
(23,568 posts)riversedge
(74,451 posts)IronLionZion
(47,980 posts)angrychair
(10,263 posts)The executive branch does not have the authority to fire people and cripple a department's congressionally mandated functions.
Like literally every single fucking thing they've done, DOGE and TSF are violating both the law and the Constitution and the fucking Republicans just sit on their thumbs and do nothing.
Republicans in Congress are in significant danger of becoming irrelevant to this administration. Seriously, what argument can they possibly make for the Legislative branch to continue to exist when they have left TSF to run amok and do whatever he pleases?
Blues Heron
(6,535 posts)It obviously involves weakening this country significantly, degrading our entire government.
calimary
(85,353 posts)Undercover, of course.
Mike 03
(18,209 posts)our foreign-based nukes pointed at the United States.
Like General Kelly said way back in 2018: "He's gone off the rails. We're in Crazytown."
orangecrush
(23,525 posts)IronLionZion
(47,980 posts)I can see these boys were hired on merit instead of DEI.
NowsTheTime
(1,018 posts).....and whether they realized what they were doing or not....it's awful either way
Beacool
(30,355 posts)Leave it to 77M people to vote for the idiot. That says more about them than it says about him.
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usregimechange
(18,529 posts)KT2000
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He put idiots in positions of leadership who did not know what they were doing. The only thing they had to lead with was creating fear. The Agriculture Secretary was so good at his job, 40 million people starved to death. We are going to be eliminated and many different ways.
Karasu
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This. Country. Needs. Fucking. Qualifications.
Mike 03
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