The U.S. Department of Labor will no longer give its employees backup child care and certain other perks, according to internal announcements obtained by HuffPost.
Emergency backup day care, child care subsidies, on-site health clinics and an employee mental health program are apparently the latest casualties in efforts by billionaire Elon Musk to slash the federal bureaucracy for President Donald Trump.
Musk pledged to purge $2 trillion from the annual federal budget, and so far the Trump administration has chipped away at the goal by firing thousands of federal workers while taking smaller steps to make work less accommodating for the ones who remain, such as by reducing remote work and now by targeting even smaller perks.
The Labor Department’s internal notice said the changes would take effect early in May but that backup day care — something workers can use if their kid’s school is closed or their regular day care provider is unavailable — was already canceled last month except for previously scheduled visits.
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