“Folks are variously stunned, pissed, baffled and a bit scared,” one federal employee who received the email told CNN. All employees across the federal government are being offered to go on what the OPM spoke
Trump announced the latest move online. “If these government workers refuse to advance the policy interests of the President, or are engaging in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job,” he wrote on his social media site. “This is common sense, and will allow the federal ...
Musk across much of the government, challenging the broad authority President Trump has given the world’s richest man to make drastic changes to the federal bureaucracy. The FBI, for example, told its employees not to respond to the email, as did the Departments of Defense, Stat...
Musk suggested he was open to auditing the Federal Reserve and accused Democrats of “treason” as he drew cheers from activists gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington. Musk spoke about his crusade to cut government spending and downsize...
The buyout effort is part of a far-reaching plan by the Trump administration to both rein in and reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, which Trump blames for stymieing his agenda during his first presidential term. The proposal has upended Washington, sparking street protests and accusati...
In a November op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Musk and Ramaswamy wrote that “mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy” will be the main way of cutting trillions in costs. “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of...
The justices are considering whether to limit the authority of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions that have blocked key parts of the Trump agenda until they can be heard in court. Laura MannweilerMay 15, 2025 High Court Weighs Nationwide Injunctions Rep. Jasmine Crockett is preparing...
I would like to emphasize the connection made between the lack of eventhe most elementary democratic rights for workers with the trade unionbureaucracy's nationalist program and defense of the profit system. For the past 13 years I have worked for Bell Atlantic and have been amember of the ...
Meanwhile, a federal judge in Boston grilled the US Justice Department about its claim that Trump has the authority to end automatic citizenship for children born on US soil to immigrants who are in the country illegally or temporarily. See a recap of how Friday unfolded. ...
MORE: Here are all the agencies federal workers are being fired from "We have a solemn responsibility to be good stewards of the American people's hard-earned taxpayer dollars and to ensure that every dollar spent goes to serve people, not the bureaucra...