For tens of thousands of federal workers in the Philadelphia region, President Donald Trump’s executive orders this week could change how they do their jobs. Among a series of executive orders Trump signed this week,

President Donald Trump signed and executive order requiring federal workers back in the office 5 days a week. How many work from home in Alabama?

Many who work in the federal government knew that an incoming Trump administration would take aim at diversity, equity and inclusion jobs within their ranks.

To say Minnesota’s federal workforce, from border patrol workers up north to agency managers awaiting directives from Washington, is on edge is an understatement. Most will not talk publicly, worried that would put them at further jeopardy at the end of a week when President Donald Trump and his administration have put many job protections — and possibly their jobs — in limbo.

President Donald Trump targeted federal workers in an opening act aimed at exerting political control over a sprawling bureaucracy — putting federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees on leave, banning remote work and stripping employment protections from civil servants.

President Donald Trump is targeting federal employees who focus on diversity, equity and inclusion and career policy staffers as he follows through on campaign promises to exert more control over the federal bureaucracy.

Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs.