A new report claims that President Donald Trump’s administration is laying off roughly 6,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees.

According to The New York Times, messages obtained by the outlet showed that IRS managers started asking employees on Wednesday to report to their offices and bring any equipment issued by the government.

A message obtained by The New York Times read, “Under an executive order, I.R.S. has been directed to terminate probationary employees who were not deemed critical to filing season. We don’t have many details that we are permitted to share, but this is all tied to compliance with the executive order.”

Addressing reports on Wednesday of cuts to the Small Business/Self-Employed Division of the IRS, Shannon Ellis, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 66, said, “We received notification today that employees in SB/SE who are on probation are scheduled for termination.”

Ellis added, “Our probationary employees will be removed as of tomorrow — we don’t know what time, we don’t know how it’s going to happen, we don’t even know if it includes all of our probationary employees.”

The Daily Wire reported that the anticipated job cuts at the IRS come after the agency was initially expected to receive $79.4 billion in funding under the $740 billion “Inflation Reduction Act” and was expected to hire up to 87,000 additional IRS agents under the Biden-Harris administration.

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Last week, Gavin Kliger, one of the top staff members at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), visited the IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C., to conduct a review of the government agency. Asked about Kliger’s visit to the IRS headquarters last week, Trump confirmed that DOGE would be conducting an audit of the agency.

Trump told reporters, “I think the Internal Revenue Service will be looked at like everybody else. Just about everybody’s going to be looked at.”

Additionally, Reuters reported that senior executives at the IRS were sent an email last week informing them that the General Services Administration was directing the IRS to review consulting contracts and eliminate “non-essential” contracts.

The email stated, “Consistent with the goals and directives of the Trump administration to eliminate waste, reduce spending, and increase efficiency, GSA [General Services Administration] has taken the first steps in a government-wide initiative to eliminate non-essential consulting contracts.”