The Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off at least 7,000 people from its workforce of 60,000, according to a person familiar with the agency’s plans who is not authorized to speak publicly.

Democrats accused the Trump administration of "putting Social Security benefits at risk by firing the staff who help beneficiaries."

CNN is tracking the chaotic and rapidly evolving firings and layoffs at federal offices in Washington and across the United States.

Thursday morning in Washington, D.C., workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development cleared out their desks, after President Trump shut down the agency providing humanitarian aid overseas.

The Trump administration Wednesday ordered heads of federal departments and agencies to prepare to initiate "large-scale reductions in force" by March 13