- April 28, 2025
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, says it has saved $160 billion through its push to root out wasteful or fraudulent government spending. But that effort may also have come at a cost for taxpayers, with a new estimate from a nonpartisan research and advocacy group estimating that DOGE's actions will cost $135 billion this fiscal year.
- March 7, 2025
The Elon Musk-backed group is calling the shots even after President Trump’s edict that they let individual agencies take the lead.
- March 5, 2025
These Agriculture Department employees must be allowed back to their jobs for 45 days, as the Office of Special Counsel continues to investigate the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired, promoted or transferred federal employees.
- March 4, 2025
A leaked memo released Tuesday called for VA to slash its workforce to 2019 levels that were in place before millions of veterans became newly eligible for care.
- February 13, 2025
Thousands of employees were already let go as of Thursday, a number that is expected to skyrocket in the coming days.
- February 12, 2025
U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. found that unions must first adjudicate their claims before the Merit Systems Protection Board or Federal Labor Relations Authority before suing in court.
- February 12, 2025
Going forward, agencies are told to prioritize low performing probationers for firing. Some have already taken a different approach.
- February 11, 2025
Susan Tsui Grundmann’s term at the agency that oversees federal sector labor disputes was not set to end until July.
- February 11, 2025
The order tasks agencies to work in conjunction with Elon Musk’s DOGE to dramatically scale back government capacity.
- February 11, 2025
The Democratic member was three years into a seven-year term on the three-member panel.