Government Executive, Management, Eric Katz, Senior Correspondent, April 9, 2025
The Interior Department is planning sweeping reductions to its administrative and support function workforce, according to several individuals briefed on the plan, and will consolidate those offices away from its component agencies.
Interior will fold areas such as IT, communications, finance, human resources and contracting into the central part of the department, rather than components such as the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service maintaining their own cadres of staff to provide those services, four employees familiar with the plans said. That will be followed by widespread and significant reductions in force to employees in those offices, leading in some cases to 50% cuts to the relevant workforces.