Court documents reveal details on DHS efforts to bring back probationary workers at CISA

Court documents show how the Department of Homeland Security is taking action to bring back probationary employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other components, after a temporary restraining order from federal judge halted efforts to cut the government workforce.

“The DHS terminated approximately 313 probationary employees between January 20, 2025 and March 14, 2025,” Roland Edwards, chief human capital officer at DHS, says in a March 17 declaration to the United States District Court for the...