The first few weeks of President Donald Trump's second term has focused on efforts to reshape the federal government largely through mass firings of federal workers. But he rarely mentioned them ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday floated major changes to the office that oversees the federal government's massive student loan portfolio. Speaking to reporters at the White ...

A senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development ordered the agency’s remaining employees to destroy internal documents at the now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday ...

A group of lawmakers is taking steps to try to clarify job protections for the tens of thousands of probationary federal employees who were recently fired from their positions. The Protect Our ...

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to pay the remainder of foreign aid owed to contractors for completed work, noting in a new court ruling that the administration likely ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that it has deactivated more than 200,000 credit cards linked to more than a dozen federal agencies following an audit showing they were ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. This week, the Trump administration begins rehiring ...

The United States is stopping all federal funding to South Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday. "To go a step further, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that ...

Resettlement agencies in western Massachusetts are feeling the effects of the Trump administration's clawback of federal funding for nonprofits. Rabbi James Greene, of Jewish Family Service, said the ...

A federal judge on Friday rejected a request to block employees with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing a sensitive federal payment system at the Treasury Department.

The impact of the US government's efficiency drive is slowly beginning to show up in labor market data. Federal government employment fell by 10,000 in February, according to data released by the ...

WASHINGTON — As more federal workers face the possibility that they could lose their jobs, one D.C.-area restaurant is hoping to help with a free lunch on Friday. Nando's, a South African chain ...