Billionaire Elon Musk’s team has initiated sweeping layoffs of federal employees, as the Trump administration races to shrink the government’s civilian workforce.

An NIH announcement Friday cutting billions in biomedical research, a federal funding review and DEI prohibitions have left ...

In a letter to Trump, ranking members of seven House committees ask whether Musk and his DOGE team have security clearances needed to access classified data.

Administration officials argued that the funding freeze outlined by the memo should go into effect. Jordan Weissmann Updated Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:10 PM 3 min read ...

Trump threatens tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada. Follow the latest news on Cabinet picks Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy ...

"The Department of Defense has been given a blanket exemption from the federal civilian hiring freeze," AFMC spokesman ... on the order's implications. For example, a spokeswoman for the Air ...

Stier offers up a few examples of what could go wrong ... As a result, Moynihan says, those agencies lost vital skills and ended up hiring more outside consultants — some of the very same federal ...

President Donald Trump has scuttled plans to freeze a large swath of federal funds ... Stanton argued that the politically charged phrasing in Trump’s initial memo created that uncertainty, for ...

President Donald Trump has scuttled plans to freeze a large swath of ... charged phrasing in Trump’s initial memo created that uncertainty, for example by referring to resources related to ...

Leavitt said the goal of the memo was to block funding for programs the president opposes such as Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in hiring and ... White House rescinds freeze memo on federal ...