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Thousands of government employees have been laid off and multiple groups have filed lawsuits against the administration.
A supervisor in a government agency now run by allies of billionaire Elon Musk told staff early this week that layoffs across the federal government are “likely” after Thursday’s deadline to ...
Just a month after President Donald Trump's administration fired over 100,000 early-tenure government employees, his administration is planning a larger slashing of workforce across the country ...
The wave of federal government layoffs in 2025 impacts tens of thousands of public sector workers. The cuts, part of President Donald Trump's broader effort to reduce government spending ...
There is no specific deadline by which agencies must deliver the news to targeted employees that their jobs will end within 30 or 60 days. Although Trump's efforts to downsize the government have ...
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing the federal workforce, is slashing more than half of its staff around the country, pinning the blame on ...
The American Federation of Government Employees is planning to lay off more than half its staff, as the largest federal employees’ union reels from President Donald Trump’s move to end ...
Last month's cuts were led by losses in federal jobs, largely directed by DOGE, with more than 216,000 government employees fired from their jobs in March, Challenger said. While Musk has said he ...
CNN also found that federal government layoffs outpaced any other US industry — including in retail and technology — in the first quarter of 2025. CNN’s analysis suggests at least 121,000 ...
Top-performing employees with many outside options in other sectors or other levels of government have the best reason to jump ship. This dynamic can be worsened by the administration’s “carrots and ...
and its basic approach is to reduce the size of government through mass layoffs. The assumption seems to be that the government can operate just as efficiently with fewer employees. But what if ...
On the Virginia Employment Commission website there is a special section for recently unemployed government workers called "Resources for Virginia’s Former Federal Employees and Other Workers ...