Thousands of employees at federal public health agencies will reportedly be fired Friday, as the Trump administration continues to carry out mass layoffs at various federal agencies amid large-scale budget-cutting efforts.

The latest cuts focus on roughly 200,000 employees classified as probationary workers, including staffers at the Forest Service and the Energy Department.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, the nation’s largest employer, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection — potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.