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Following over 260,000 federal job losses since January, new budget plans propose eliminating an additional 107,000 roles.
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration's federal job cut plans to proceed.Federal agencies had paused job cuts due to legal challenges, and many offered buyouts instead.Future legal ...
In news about the Trump administration’s job-slashing effort, one class of federal workers comes up repeatedly: “probationary” employees. At the Internal Revenue Service, 6,700 people with ...
The Trump administration is telling agencies to fire so-called probationary employees, which, according to government data means more than 200,000 people could lose their jobs. These are generally ...
Despite rehiring hundreds of FDA, CDC and NIH employees, the Department of Health and Human Services is still a skeleton of ...
Companies have reported more than 744,000 job cuts this year — the highest figure since the first six months of 2020, ...
The ruling could result in job cuts across several federal agencies, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the court of ...
There were about 600 employee cuts at the National Weather Service — about 100 probationary employees and 500 buyouts. The Trump administration’s proposed 2026 budget would increase the National ...
It’s too soon to see the full impacts of the Trump administration’s federal workforce reductions. But historical data show ...
Civil servants told POLITICO they’re anxious and exhausted, but holding out hope their lawyers can still save their jobs.
A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force." ...
Melissa Harris had her future meticulously planned. But after more than 37 years in public service, those plans fell apart when President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...