"Probationary employees receiving the email have been working at the agency for less than a year. The emails began to go out on late Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union official.
The same message will be sent to other agency workforces, a White House official said. Across the US government, the latest data shows there are more than 220,000 employees on probation."
https://whdh.com/news/epa-workers-receive-emails-warning-their-employment-could-be-terminated/
The epa exists (not exclusively) because Ohio was so corrupt and stupid they put so much shit in a river it literally caught on fire.
Think India levels of bad
The epa had a purpose, to not let every idiot just assume the environment was someone else’s problem
But they’ve long since stopped being that
That seems to be the defining nature of all government agencies. Mission creep gradually makes them lose sight of their original charter and reason for being; at which time they should either be closed or repurposed and reset with all new employees.