The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of the company’s board. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, the media organization said the White House emailed three of the company’s five directors on Monday, telling them that their…
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government. The emergency appeal argues that the judge can’t force the executive branch to rehire some 16,000 probationary employees. The California-based judge found…
Agencies responsible for examining the US government’s immigration policy on a case-by-case basis are being targeted through mass firings or departmental shutdowns, according to reports. A spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called the watchdog agencies “roadblocks” to implementing Trump’s immigration policy, reported The Washington Post. The Trump administration has placed the entire…
A group of Native American tribes and students is suing the Trump administration to reverse its recent firing of federal workers at Native schools that they said has severely lowered their quality of education. The firings, part of the series of layoffs led by the Department of Government Efficiency that have cut thousands of federal…
The federal weather and oceans agency touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy, according to the people who ran it. The first round of firings started Thursday at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a government agency that monitors…
A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday temporarily blocked the Donald Trump administration from ordering multiple agencies, including the Department of Defence, to carry out the mass firings of thousands of recently hired employees, as part of the government downsizing drive, spearheaded by Elon Musk. District Judge William Alsup found that the mass firings…
Shortly after taking office for the second time, President Trump began making deep cuts to agencies and programs that play critical roles in human health, slashing funding for medical research, halting global health aid and firing scores of workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the campaign to downsize government, which has…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s fifth week in office included a dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward Russia, firing the country’s senior military officer, sitting for a chummy interview alongside bureaucracy-buster Elon Musk and seeking greater authority over independent regulatory agencies. Trump also said “inflation is back,” but said his short time back in the White…
In recent years, the Food and Drug Administration hired experts in surgical robots and pioneers in artificial intelligence. It scooped up food chemists, lab-safety monitors and diabetes specialists who helped make needle pricks and test strips relics of the past. Trying to keep up with breakneck advances in medical technology and the demands of a…
How DOGE’s mass firings, inspired by Elon Musk’s playbook, are undermining federal job security The federal government’s long-standing tradition of job security is undergoing a dramatic shift under the current Trump administration, which has embraced mass firings affecting millions of federal workers. This unprecedented move, described by critics as part of an Elon Musk-led DOGE…