Jasmin Dominguez, a former U.S. Forest Service employee, was fired weeks after helping fight the Los Angeles wildfires. Her termination was part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the government.

Beyond that, DOGE’s haphazard cuts are difficult to codify because they have a weak legal foundation and are hard to explain, let alone justify (hence the repeat un-firings). In a closed-door meeting last Thursday with USAID Deputy Administrator–designate Pete Marocco,