President Donald Trump has seized the authority to lay off federal workers and reorganize the federal government in a way ...

Late-stage changes to a program meant to expand high-speed internet into rural and hard-to-serve areas have left Indiana ...

A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Labor is pausing its enforcement of independent contractor rules set up by the Biden administration. The Biden-era guidance, which was finalized in March ...

Many critics say the administration is scrapping a nonpartisan, merit-based civil service in favor of a biased, politicized ...

The Trump administration is adding four essay questions to applications for civil service jobs, asking applicants about their favorite executive orders and their commitment to government efficiency.

Want a federal job? Get ready to pledge allegiance to Trump. The new federal job application asks which Trump executive order you love the best. He’s building his own deep-state spoils system.

Biden had quickly reversed that order and then last year finalized a new rule that further bolstered protections for career federal workers.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would make it much easier to fire federal workers. The rule would affect an estimated 50,000 federal employees.

Removing a federal worker usually takes six months to a year before appeals, according to an OPM fact sheet which noted the new rule would allow the swift removal of those “who put their own ...

The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to make it easier to fire some federal workers, as part of its push to both shrink the federal government and exert more control over it.

The new questions include ones that could give insight into the applicant’s political philosophy for civil service jobs that are supposed to be nonpartisan.