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Within weeks, Musk’s DOGE team had positioned people across the federal government, disrupting functions, gaining access to sensitive data, and executing cuts. On Feb. 11, Trump claimed that ...

President Trump is moving swiftly to shrink the U.S. federal government — the nation's largest employer — a move that he has said will slash wasteful spending and make the nation's civil ...

Around 2.4 million individuals are employed in the federal government as of January 2025, excluding U.S. Postal Service employees, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.More ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Many federal workers have expressed outrage and despair at President Donald Trump's workforce mandates — but what about those who filled in ...

A federal judge declined to further pause a federal government buyout program, enabling the government to forge ahead with its “Fork in the Road” program. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole ...

On his first day in office, Trump issued a government-wide freeze on any hiring new federal employees. An Office of Personnel Management spokesperson confirmed the reductions in a statement ...

Probational federal employees who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of the Trump administration's mass firing of government workers expressed shock and anger at the terminations, which they ...

Government offices will be closed on Monday ... It was also the first federal holiday to honor an individual's birth date. Washington's birthday, Feb. 22, was designated by Congress as a holiday ...

Follow live politics coverage here. Employees who have probationary status have typically been with the federal government for only one or two years — before all their civil service protections ...