DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency

At least dozens of workers for the Technology Transformation Services, housed within the General Services Administration, were fired Wednesday afternoon, sources tell WIRED. The sudden cuts seemingly targeted probationary and short-term staffers, including workers supplied by the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program, which brings skilled technologists from the private sector to work in government for a few years at a time. Around 50 of the 70 members of the US Digital Corps, an early-career two-year government fellowship, were terminated as well, sources say. Sources also tell WIRED that TTS management met with workers individually prior to the terminations, giving them one last chance to take the deferred resignation offered in the "Fork In the Road" email late last month. One TTS staffer called the meetings "coercive for sure."