Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...

The Defense Department said Friday that it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring ...

The Defense Department, which is the largest government agency, says it's reducing its civilian workforce by 5% to 8%.

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday, a ...

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

In the weeks since President Donald Trump has assumed office, more than 200,000 federal workers at more than a dozen agencies ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President ...

More than 2,000 workers at the Interior Department were fired in recent days, according to counts from workers groups and ...

Probationary federal workers from the mass layoffs and firings are now raising the alarm about their termination letters.

The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain ...

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and an employee at the ...