Thursday is the deadline for federal agencies and departments to give the Trump administration their plans for large-scale layoffs, and the details about how many people will be fired are expected ...

Wisconsin is less dependent on federal funding than more than half the other states, according to a new report. Personal finance company Wallethub compared states to determine which relied most on ...

By Eileen Sullivan and Zach Montague Reporting from Washington Last month, thousands of employees with probationary status across the federal government were fired by the Trump administration in ...

A second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers, issuing an order Thursday that probationary employees be reinstated weeks after their dismissal.

Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, claimed the Trump administration is spreading "misinformation" with the idea that the government is "too big.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies ... Helland, who sat alone at the table for government counsel, argued that the agencies made the firing decisions, and he said the timing ...

Widespread confusion and fear rippled through the federal workforce Thursday as federal agencies faced a key deadline in President Donald Trump’s push to drastically downsize the government.

Trump said billions of dollars of "fat and waste and fraud and abuse is being taken out" of the federal government. "We have a dream. And you know what the dream is? We're going to move the ...

WASHINGTON — Two judges ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration needs to reinstate thousands of federal workers it fired across dozens of agencies, a significant blow to ...

The order covers every major department other than the Pentagon. A federal judge temporarily paused the Trump administration's "illegal" reductions in force and reinstated approximately 20,000 ...

Securing unemployment benefits may try the patience of many former federal workers struggling to stabilize their lives after being unexpectedly tossed out of public service. The payments can be a ...

The February Employment Report, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that the federal workforce decreased by 10,000 last month. This stands in contrast to data from the previous year ...