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From Capital B “I feel helpless. I feel like so much is out of my control,” one former employee says as the Trump administration targets USAID, AmeriCorps, and beyond. Read more

From CNN Current and former federal employees are struggling to get their workplace benefits, including health insurance and pension payments, amid President Donald Trump’s chaotic efforts to reduce the federal workforce. Read more

From Bloomberg The US Department of Education is pushing to strip workplace protections for pregnant or LGBTQ staff, telling its employee union the policies must be changed to conform to President Donald Trump’s executive orders. Read more

From NBC News It’s not only that the Trump administration is firing government employees en masse, or trying to swallow up neighboring Canada, or squeezing Ukraine, a democratic nation fighting off Russia’s invasion. For those in the crosshairs, no small part of the ordeal is the public humiliation they’ve endured. The new administration has beenContinue reading “The cost of being in Trump’s crosshairs: Public humiliation”

From USAToday In his first two months back at the White House, President Donald Trump has railed against rampant “waste, fraud and abuse” across the government. That criticism, based in many cases on false and misleading claims about federal workers and programs, has fueled sweeping cuts. Another dramatic round of layoffs came last week whenContinue reading “Trump’s education cuts could lead to the problems he says he’s eliminating”

From NBC News Massive layoffs initiated this week at the Education Department could hamstring the federal government’s efforts to assist students with disabilities, former officials and education experts said, citing blows to the agency’s civil rights and research divisions. On Tuesday, the department began laying off around 1,300 employees, cutting nearly half the staff inContinue reading “What the Education Department layoffs could mean for students with disabilities”

From The Guardian The Trump administration has decimated the US Department of Education, firing more than 1,300 employees in a single day in what looks to be the first step toward abolishing the agency entirely. The mass dismissal – delivered by email after most staff had left for the day on Tuesday – has slashedContinue reading “Education department slashed in half after Trump administration mass firings”

From CNN Millions of federal workers were ordered to return to offices across the country in recent weeks, marking an end to Covid-era rules allowing more flexibility to work from home. Many have come back to workplaces that weren’t ready for them. In one Department of Health and Human Services office, there was no Wi-FiContinue reading “‘It was messy’: Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights”

From Spectrum News 1 Austin The Trump administration has fired thousands of federal employees and many more dismissals are on the way. The actions are part of a sweeping reduction and reorganization of the government. In Texas alone, tens of thousands of federal employees are on edge, worried about their future. “I’m not going toContinue reading “Texas federal workers on edge as Trump administration pursues mass firings”

From Stars and Stripes Marine Corps veteran Andrew Lennox was wrapping up his last day of online orientation as a newly hired administrative officer at Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System in Michigan, when his cell phone pinged alerting him to incoming email. As a supervisor in primary care services at the medical center run byContinue reading “‘On the backs of veterans’: Senators rail against federal workforce purge as vets hit hard by cuts”