The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the dismissal of more than 1,400 probationary employees in non-mission critical positions.

The VA said the move will save "more than $83 million per year, and VA will redirect all of those resources back toward health care, benefits and services for VA beneficiaries.

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It follows the first round of dismissals announced on Feb. 13, in which more than 1,000 probationary employees were terminated.

-ABC News' Cindy Smith

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Guantanamo on Tuesday, where he’ll visit the detention facility and the migrant operations center.

There were 178 deported migrants at the facility until late last week when almost all of them were transported to their home country of Venezuela.

A new group of detainees, reportedly 17, arrived at Guantanamo Bay on Sunday.

-ABC News’ Luis Martinez

After a slew of emails from HHS management about how to handle the OPM request to detail their week from the past week, employees were informed Monday afternoon that responses are not mandatory, but if they do respond, they should do so cautiously and under the assumption that "what you write will be read by malign foreign actors" and to "tailor your response accordingly.”

The email, which suggests "guidelines" for employees to follow if they respond, says employees should keep their responses "at a high level of generality" and "protect sensitive data, personally identifiable information, and applicable privileges to the extent possible."

"Do not (1) identify, by name or title, any other HHS employees with whom you have been working; (2) identify, by case name or otherwise, matters you are working on, or (3) identify any specific grants or contracts, or any specific grantees or contractors," the email directs employees.

HHS also suggested that employees don't include any information on scientific research or experiments, and avoid including the names of any drugs, devices or therapeutics that they work on.

HHS management was clear that there was no expectation that employees would respond and there would be no punishment for not responding.

Employees at HHS were first told that they should respond to OPM’s request, but then told six hours later to hold off on replying.

The email sent on Monday afternoon was the third sent to employees informing them how they should react to the email.

-ABC News’ John Brownstein, Youri Bendjaoud and Cheyenne Haslett

More than 70% of the U.S. Department of Education’s total workforce returned to its offices in D.C. and regional stations Monday, according to the department.

The statement said all employees will be back in the office by June 1 following the completion of building renovations and relocation arrangements.

It comes as the agency's future hangs in the balance -- secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon could be confirmed by the Senate as early as this week.

-ABC News' Arthur Jones