The Trump administration has used mass firings of federal layoffs as a key tool in its efforts to reshape the federal workforce. From the time he took office in January until the end of February, more than 200,000 federal workers at dozens of government agencies were fired.

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The Senate passed a short-term funding bill to reopen the government through January 30, and the House is expected to vote on it Wednesday.