Roughly 75,000 federal workers across government have accepted a buyout offer, taking an unusual deal spearheaded by the Trump administration as it looks to reduce the federal workforce. A senior administration official confirmed the figure in the hours after a court rejected a bid by unions to quash the program. The court ruling allowed the government...
A federal judge late Wednesday agreed to a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump from firing the head of the Office of the Special Counsel, keeping a key protector of whistleblowers in place. The order from Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, keeps Hampton Dellinger in his job after Trump fired him on Friday....
The House GOP’s budget resolution is hanging in the balance as a handful of hardliners withhold support for the measure, setting the stage for a high-stakes committee vote on Thursday. At least six Republicans on the House Budget Committee remained undecided Wednesday afternoon on whether they will support the budget resolution when the panel considers...
JD Vance’s statement was correct — and should not be controversial: a district court order barring Trump's oversight of the Treasury is ridiculous on...
President Donald Trump's repeated talk about acquiring Greenland from Denmark has prompted some eye-rolling and diplomatic blowback, but it got a respectful airing Wednesday in the first Capitol Hill hearing of the new Congress to actually consider the merits of the idea.
President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday making it easier to terminate or punish government workers who are not executing his foreign policies.
In a major victory for President Trump's plan to shrink the size and cost of government, a federal judge in Boston denied a workers union request to block a massive buyout offer for federal workers.