CISA maintains it is in compliance with the court’s order, saying that no new reduction notices have been issued since the injunction, the October layoffs were planned beforehand and they involve no union-represented employees.

The agency has also halted recruitment for its Legal Honors Program, two former officials say. That has a “pronounced effect” on NSA’s ability to recruit top attorneys. 
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“The morale inside the organization is rather depressed. It’s been depressed for a series of months at this point,” one source said. 
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“Once the shutdown ends, we will issue guidance to agencies encouraging them to fully leverage the program to bring these highly skilled professionals into public service,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a statement:
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She most recently served as acting executive assistant director for the Infrastructure Security Division and acting assistant director of the Stakeholder Engagement Division:
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Excellent reporting

@repwalkinshaw.bsky.social has also weighed in: “CyberCorps scholars answered a call to serve. Saddling them with debt and uncertainty does not make government more efficient, it makes our nation less safe.”
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Multiple students facing potential debt burdens from the reversals have written to NSF directly. “Due to my personal life situation and current macroeconomic factors, I am experiencing severe financial and economic burden...” one letter sent to NSF reads.
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Beginning as early as February, program recruits received cancellation notices for work offers at agencies like NASA, the HHS and the Defense Contract Management Agency, according to nearly a dozen emails viewed by Nextgov/FCW.
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“I still believe in protecting critical infrastructure, obviously, but I don’t want to ever work for the government again,” one student told me. “As an American, I’m immensely embarrassed.”
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