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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal Worker Fired Under DOGE Purge: 'We're Under Attack by Billionaires' Hanna Hickman said she believes Musk is trying to "destroy" her former department By Carla St. Louis carlastlouis ...

Aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Mr. Trump defended the purge. “Some people thought that some were unfair or some were not doing the job,” he said, falsely claiming that a mass removal of ins ...

The US government began firing thousands of people at multiple agencies on Thursday as President Trump and Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America’s federal bureaucracy ...

WASHINGTON—A swath of inspectors general were fired Friday night by the White House, people familiar with the matter said, as President Trump removed the official government watchdogs across a ...