Thousands of KC IRS Workers Brace for Layoffs Amid Trump Administration Purge

The Kansas City Globe e-Edition
The IRS Kansas City location. Photo/Suzanne King/The Beacon)
The IRS Kansas City location. Photo/Suzanne King/The Beacon)

Kansas City, Mo.—February 20, 2025/6:15 a.m.— On a day when dangerously cold weather forced the Internal Revenue Service to close its downtown processing center, hundreds of probationary employees are on notice that their jobs are likely going away.

Following days of uncertainty for Kansas City’s federal workforce, IRS employees learned in a Feb. 18 video message that their jobs would be among the …