WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor will no longer give its employees backup child care and certain other perks, according to an internal announcement obtained by HuffPost. Emergency backup day care, child care subsidies, 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. 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. “We have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work,” Trump said in a speech to a joint session of Congress last week. Any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately.”Spokespeople for the Labor Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Source: Huffington Post March 12, 2025 18:25 UTC