WASHINGTON – Layoffs are underway at multiple federal departments, according to union sources and termination notices reviewed by USA TODAY, as President Donald Trump and top White House ...

State Department: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to reorganize an agency he said is “bloated, bureaucratic, ...

The Trump Administration began terminating thousands of staff and ... Well, the HHS secretary said in a statement that the firings were intended to reduce what he called bureaucratic sprawl.

Experts in federal employment law said the Trump administration’s justifications to end the investigations were baffling at ...

A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation’s top health agency, ...

of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies Thursday, slowing down for now the president’s dramatic downsizing of the federal government. Both judges separately found ...

Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald ... the embattled organization where employees faced mass firings over the weekend. Earlier this month ...

Probationary workers have been targeted for layoffs across the federal government because they’re usually new to the job and lack full civil service protection. Multiple lawsuits have been filed over ...