Mass layoffs, court challenges and buyouts: Making sense of Trump's plans to shrink the federal workforce
Answering some of the most important questions surrounding DOGE’s rapid transformation of the federal workforce.
Trump begins sweeping federal worker layoffs, warning of larger cuts to come
Trump’s initial attempt to downsize the workforce was the deferred resignation program, commonly described as a buyout, which ...
How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and ...
Where Trump, Musk and DOGE Have Cut Federal Workers So Far
President Trump and Elon Musk have spent three weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there ...
Judge allows Trump to proceed with federal buyout
A federal judge says he will continue to pause the Trump administration's federal employee buyout offer until he issues a ...
RFK Jr. sworn in as health secretary; Trump administration moves toward firing probationary employees
Follow live updates as Donald Trump Cabinet picks Linda McMahon, Robert Kennedy and Kash Patel face Senate proceedings. The ...
Live Updates: Trump Officials Proceed With Mass Job Cuts Across Multiple Federal Agencies
Layoffs cascaded through the federal government on Thursday after its human resources division advised agencies to terminate ...
USAID employees ask a judge to keep blocking Trump’s effort to pull most of them off the job
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by Trump, handed the administration and billionaire ally Elon Musk a ...