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From CNN The US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees. The payments could continue for years amid a long court battle over cutsContinue reading “Education Department pays over $7 million a month to employees forced to sit idle”

From Bloomberg The full effects of a drastic cost-cutting campaign are coming into focus as its billionaire architect departs from the government. Read more

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”