Sources: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expands layoffs

ChainCatcher news, according to Jin Shi reports, based on five sources and the termination letter, another category of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) received termination notices on Thursday, indicating that the Trump administration is not only dismissing probationary employees when laying off federal workers.

These notices were sent to dozens of so-called "permanent employees," all of whom are full-time staff with contracts that have termination dates. The notices show that the date of the termination letter is February 13, issued by the agency's acting Chief Human Resources Officer Adam Martinez. Before this new round of layoffs, the CFPB had dismissed up to 70 probationary employees on Tuesday.