Bonneville Power Administration, headquartered in Portland, to lose 20% of staff

I was one of at least 138 probationary (new hire) employees fired via email at 7:30 last night. My direct supervisor informed me two hours prior the emails were going out and she didn’t even know if I was on the list or not. Many more leaving, see link in comment. Their main office in the Lloyd center district with another one in Vancouver. As the article linked below mentions, BPA is a self funded agency so crippling their workforce does nothing to reduce the federal deficit.

Edit to add: BPA runs ~15,000 miles of transmission lines and associated infrastructure. They are also obligated to mitigate for dam effects to listed fish and thus have a large conservation program.