WASHINGTON – Thousands of recently hired federal workers were fired Thursday and Friday as President Donald Trump and top White House official Elon Musk escalated efforts to purge the federal ...

“Move fast and break things” could literally break the IRS’s antiquated IT system, warns former Treasury official Lily Batchelder: I led the Treasury Office of Tax Policy and have spoken to ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A purge of senior staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development appeared designed to silence any dissent over President Donald Trump's plans to dramatically ...

Some of the early actions of the new Trump administration are very ominous. The purging from the FBI and Justice Department of officials deemed to be disloyal is reminiscent of moves made by ...

The pivot to firing probationary workers represents the next phase of Trump’s purge agenda. Probationary status refers to when a worker is relatively new to the workforce — typically one or tw ...

Sent twice a week. Luckily, non-government groups had rapidly started downloading the existing data when rumors of a broad data purge started to circulate in Washington. Cynthia Cox, vice ...

Then on top of that, the purge of independent civil servants leaves fewer people in place to either resist that kind of corruption or blow the whistle about it. The purging of IGs looks like a ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) condemned President Trump’s move to fire more than a dozen watchdogs at several federal agencies overnight, calling it a “chilling purge.” ...

A team of workers from the U.S. DOGE Service developed step-by-step plans for carrying out President Donald Trump’s order to purge diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the federal ...

In a sweeping wave of layoffs, thousands of federal workers, including employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Department of Education and Department of Veterans Affairs ...

Trump’s “brazen attempt to purge Inspectors General” isn’t just unlawful, it is an attack on U.S. Democracy that “undermines the safety of the American people,” according to U.S. Rep.