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From CNN, I'm Fez Jamil with the five things you need to know for Thursday, February 13th.

Some employees are being fired from federal agencies.

Union sources and federal workers told CNN about the job losses after letters were sent to workers at two federal departments.

CNN's Elena Trine has more from the White House.

Employees who had been placed on probationary status recently at the Department of Education,

as well as the Small Business Administration, were notified overnight that they are being fired, essentially.

Now, this is the first time really that we are seeing kind of these widespread layoffs, these firings,

since Trump has been

in office and since Doge has really gotten to work on trying to reduce the size of the federal

work source before. They had been placing employees on paid administrative leave. They were also

offering the buyout program, but they had always warned that even if you accept this, you could

still be fired.

And that's what we're beginning to see now.

Meanwhile, billions of dollars in federal funding are still frozen from some of Trump's executive actions,

despite judges temporarily allowing spending to continue while court challenges are heard.

Just some examples are FEMA clawing back $80 million meant to help New York City house

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