Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget and he'll do that working with Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency, according to a letter sent to members of Congress on Thursday.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday evening backed off his shutdown threat and said he will vote for the Republicans' spending bill, providing a list of arguments that gave a green light to other Senate Democrats to do the same.

The U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the smallest agencies in the federal government, has become a major battlefield in the guerrilla warfare being waged between the Trump administration and resistors deep inside the bureaucracy.

Longtime Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva has died at 77 after a "long brave battle" with lung cancer, his office announced in a statement Thursday.