A year after the Trump administration told agencies to compile headcount reduction plans, House Democrats reflected on wide-ranging consequences.

Nonprofit Work for America is helping former federal workers get state and local government roles, after the largest cuts in ...

The more recent four-day shutdown ended last week with a package that provided full-year appropriations for every agency that had not yet received it with the exception of the Homeland Security ...

WASHINGTON — As 2025 draws to a close, the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region finds itself grappling with an economic shift not seen in nearly two decades. Following the ...

Before President Donald Trump began his second administration, he vowed to reduce federal bureaucracy. Trump marks his first year back in the White House on Tuesday, during which 322,049 federal ...

WASHINGTON — Tech titan Elon Musk celebrated the year-end success of his efforts to slash the federal workforce, as data show a nearly 9% reduction in the federal workforce that once employed more ...

Shannon Ellis, head of the union representing Kansas City Internal Revenue Service employees, is pictured at her home in Liberty, Missouri, in July 2025. She said the workforce reductions will cause ...

For the first time in decades, the federal bureaucracy is getting smaller. According to the latest federal jobs report, the government has shed roughly 271,000 civilian positions in the past year, ...

The Department of Homeland Security has drafted plans to drastically cut the Federal Emergency Management Agency workforce in 2026, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post that detail ...

A host of departments issued "workforce adjustment notices" to thousands of employees in the third week of January.