Trump orders federal agencies to prepare plans to relocate offices from Washington

The Trump administration directed federal agencies on Wednesday to prepare for mass layoffs, according to the heads of the White House budget and personnel management offices, Report informs via NBC.

Budget Director Russell Vought and Charles Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, wrote in a memo to the heads of these agencies that the federal government is "costly, inefficient, and deeply in debt."

The memo specifically calls for the removal of "underperforming employees or employees engaged in misconduct."

The heads of departments and agencies will have to submit plans for a second phase workforce reduction by mid-April. "That will outline a vision for more productive, efficient agency operations going forward and be implemented by the end of September," the memo said.

That second part of the plan should include "any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, DC and the National Capital Region to less-costly parts of the country," it said.