The Trump administration has scaled back its planned federal workforce reductions after tens of thousands of employees accepted buyouts or retired early to avoid layoffs. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) initially planned to cut 83,000 jobs but has since revised the figure to 30,000, a move that has drawn criticism from lawmakers and veterans' advocates who warn it will harm veterans' access to care and benefits. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will eliminate its Office of Research and Development, resulting in layoffs of hundreds of scientists, including chemists, biologists, and toxicologists. This decision follows a Supreme Court ruling permitting the administration to reduce the federal workforce and dismantle agencies. Additionally, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed a proposal to rescind the 2009 EPA endangerment finding, which established that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and the environment. Rescinding this finding would dismantle the legal basis for U.S. climate change regulations, including electric vehicle mandates, potentially undoing approximately $1 trillion in regulations and saving over $54 billion annually. Energy Secretary Chris Wright framed the move as an effort to end what he described as the "cancel culture Orwellian squelching of science."