Kennedy Library closes abruptly [View all]
Source: Politico
02/18/2025 07:48 PM EST
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum closed abruptly Tuesday afternoon amid a flurry of mass firings at federal agencies across the government.
The effort to slash the federal workforce spearheaded by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency hit the Boston-based intuition Thursday afternoon, when the National Archives passed down an order telling leadership to terminate probationary employees, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III said Tuesday evening.
The five employees affected “were the ones that were responsible for greeting visitors, the visitor experience … education, outreach, some of the rental activities and such that are revenue generating,” Kennedy said during an interview on WBZ. “But it also meant that today, for all the visitors that were there, they had to dismiss people inside the library today and close effective immediately and until further notice, because that’s the staff that is responsible for running the day to day operations of the library.”
“The library cannot function with that type of reduction,” a source with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO in a statement.
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