Federal officials circulated a memo asking agency leaders to plan even more job reductions after thousands of federal workers were fired in recent weeks.

President Donald Trump's administration says federal agencies should begin planning to eliminate employee positions. The process is known as a reduction in force.

The Social Security Administration eliminated its Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Social Security Administration said 140 workers in the Civil Rights Office were put on administrative leave.

The cuts come amid growing attrition from an aging federal workforce, which the Biden administration worried would hollow out the government without intervention.

Some of America’s governors — mostly Democrats — have a message for the wave of fired federal workers: We want you

The Trump administration Wednesday ordered heads of federal departments and agencies to prepare to initiate "large-scale reductions in force" by March 13

The Merit Systems Protection Board ordered a 45-day stay of the terminations, a move that could have implications for the thousands of employees fired in recent weeks.

Agency leaders asked to draw up plans for ‘significant reduction’ of positions beyond previous rounds of layoffs.

The Trump administration moved forward Wednesday with its plans to conduct large-scale layoffs across agencies, the latest move to downsize the federal workforce.