The union president representing Department of Housing and Urban Development employees said the full effects of agency layoffs would become clear in the coming days.
The cuts at HUD, which are expected to hit as much as half of its staff, are part of the Trump administration’s promise to shrink the size of the federal workforce. It’s a dramatic cut for an agency that serves millions of people across the country.
“I would suspect that those receiving services will be impacted within 15 or 30 days of these cuts taking effect,” Antonio Gaines, president of AFGE National Council 222 — the union that represents more than 5,000 HUD employees — told NOTUS.