2025-02-25
13 分钟Good morning.
It's Tuesday, February 25th.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, Republican lawmakers are feeling the heat from their constituents at town halls.
A look at how abortion bans affect sepsis rates.
And a controversial pick could win the Oscar for best actress.
But first, to the ongoing fallout from federal job firings.
Yesterday, the Office of Personnel Management, which is effectively the government's HR department,
told federal agencies that they can ignore Elon Musk's email demanding they outline what they accomplished last week
or risk losing their jobs.
President Trump commented, too,
saying some employees work with sensitive information and should be exempt from the email request.
But but he also suggested employees could still be fired or, quote, semi fired for non compliance.
One DOJ employee described the past few days to Politico as massive whiplash all the time.
The next large scale cuts are coming for the Pentagon.
On Friday,
the Defense Department announced plans to cut 5,400 probationary workers starting this week,
which would reduce its workforce by up to 8%.
The Pentagon also said it plans to put a hiring freeze in place