Federal employment is slipping at a pace that is starting to reshape how Washington touches daily life, from airport security lines to Social Security call centers. The headline story is not just that ...

As a result of a concerted effort by the second Trump administration to reduce the size of the civilian federal workforce, ...

Updated October 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM EDT With the federal government shutdown now 2 weeks old and counting, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily halted the latest wave of layoffs by the Trump ...

President Trump rapidly launched his efforts to overhaul the federal government and upend the norms of the civil service in his first year back in the White House, but in many ways those activities ...