Workforce
Board agrees to pause firings for some feds, potentially upending Trump's widespread terminations
The employees must be reinstated to their roles pending further investigation, appeals board rules.
Management
House Republicans overcome own members’ doubts to push through sweeping budget
The Senate voted last week to approve its budget resolution following a marathon amendment voting session, but House GOP leaders have decided to try to move forward with their own version.
Oversight
Comptroller general says impoundment violations are a ‘high priority’ for GAO
Gene Dodaro said the Government Accountability Office will move “as quickly and thoroughly as possible” to enforce potential violations of the Impoundment Control Act as the Trump administration seeks to take a cleaver to federal spending.
Management
Trump to convert some top career roles to political appointments and evaluate execs on adherence to president’s agenda
New policy ensures top roles can only be filled by the "administration's political cronies," senior executive group says.
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Transition
Advisory government transparency committee terminated
The closure is the result of a Trump order targeting advisory panels throughout the federal government.
Defense
Defense Department police officers can’t get proper credentials nearly 2 years after Congress required them
An officer said they’ve run into issues questioning witnesses, registering for trainings and purchasing necessary equipment because they can’t easily prove they’re a federal law enforcement officer.
Workforce
Veterans Affairs axes another 1,400 probationary employees
The agency has now laid off 2,400 employees since Feb. 13.
Transition
Killing the Presidential Management Fellows program threatens the future of federal labor
COMMENTARY | A former fellow urges the Trump administration to reopen the door to this program that attracted talent and leaders to the federal workforce.
Transition
GSA takes ‘sledgehammer’ to workforce with planned layoffs
The agency’s acting administrator informed employees Monday that a reduction in force effort was impending.
Transition
Judge temporarily blocks DOGE access to OPM and the Education Department
The lawsuit, led by the American Federation of Teachers, is one of several seeking to bar federal agencies from sharing sensitive information with the Department of Government Efficiency.
Transition
They worked to prevent death. The Trump administration fired them.
While the White House hasn't provided official figures, swathes of federal employees from across the public health sector, from organ donation to neonatal care, have been let go in the early days of the second Trump administration.
Workforce
Following confusion, OPM says Musk demand that feds report accomplishments is voluntary
Agencies have provided their employees with varying information about whether to respond to the request for federal employees to provide five accomplishments from the previous week.
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Workforce
Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated
The findings could have sweeping impacts for the tens of thousands of recently dismissed workers.
Workforce
House Dems press administration on telework for military spouses
Although the Trump administration has issued guidance purportedly exempting the spouses of military service members from the president’s return-to-office mandate, lawmakers say some federal workers have heard differently.
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Workforce
Trump administration asks all feds to justify their jobs or risk losing them
Employees throughout government are receiving emails asking them what they did last week.
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Defense
Bloodbath: Joint Chiefs chair, CNO, Air Force vice chief, three top JAGs to be replaced
Trump, Hegseth announce plans to oust several of the military’s top officers amid larger DEI purge.
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Workforce
OPM triggers more RIFs after ‘clean cleaving’ an entire office
“The job will not get done without our work,” one laid off employee said.
Management
DOGE’s millions: As Musk and Trump gut the government, their ax-cutting agency gets a cash infusion
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines the group and expands a list of DOGE workers.
Breaking News
Defense
Pentagon to fire up to 61,000 workers, starting with 5,400 next week, says DOD
After the first round of firings, the Defense Department will launch a review intended to cut the civilian workforce by 5 to 8%, an official said.
Workforce