If you pop the hood and take a look underneath at Whirlpool's financials, you can see what is happening. They reported approximately $17 billion in annual sales in 2024 and about $19 billion in 2023. The company's 2025 outlook reported an expected $15.8 billion in sales.

Lines of HHS employees arrived at work Tuesday to see if they still had a job, by checking if their badges still worked.

President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday laid off scores of Health and Human Services employees, including many who ran the Head Start early education program.

Federal health employees stood outside in line for hours Tuesday at the Department of Health and Human Service’s Public Health Division office in Rockville, Maryland, where people waited to scan their badge and learn if they still had a job.

Job cuts more than tripled to 275,240 last month, a surge caused by mass layoffs of government workers by Elon Musk's DOGE.

Among the employees who have been dismissed are chaplains for grieving families, a counselor for abuse victims, and a specialist in helping patients quit smoking.

Even after the funding freeze was aborted — and the website was restored — those who run the programs remained on edge. On Tuesday, the administration gave them another reason to worry: mass layoffs.

The cuts are part of a plan by President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk to shrink staffing levels in federal agencies.