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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. It's Thursday. February 27th, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America.

On the bubble, Zelensky to D.C. Bezos makes changes. And another close call, it's all coming up.

Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day.

But first, a Wednesday memo from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget, both in the executive branch, directed agencies across the government to turn over plans for widespread layoffs of federal employees by March 13th.

Once they figure out who is going to get laid off,

Office of Personnel Management can issue 30-day notices,

and they'll be coming as soon as April.

The memo said, pursuant to the president's direction,

agencies should focus on the maximum elimination of functions

that are not statutorily mandated

while driving the highest quality, most efficient delivery

of their statutorily required functions. It's worth noting that President Bill Clinton,

part of his 1993 effort called reimagining government, according to a testimony from the person

who ran his National Performance Review Initiative, a total of 426,000 federal jobs, 426,000 were eliminated

during his presidency.

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