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Shutdown averted: Enough Senate Democrats vote with the GOP to pass a government funding bill

Democrats were split on the vote, with some wanting to use it as leverage to fight Department of Government Efficiency cuts.

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Trump administration cancels translation services for those seeking to access or correct their immigration status

The lack of translation services will lead to more people being improperly denied benefits or jobs, experts say.

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Commerce seeks to cut 20% of staff—without using layoffs

The department will implement a series of RIF avoidance measures to meet Trump's mandate to cut staff.

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SSA weighs axing payments to 170,000 beneficiaries

The move to cease making payments to people without Social Security numbers would imperil the benefits of thousands of immigrants’ children with disabilities.

Management

DOGE to work with USPS to find efficiencies, DeJoy says

The mailing agency will work with GSA and the group led by Elon Musk, who has called for Postal Service privatization.

Updated Workforce

Judge orders reinstatement for most fired probationary federal workers

The firings were "based on a lie," judge says, who suggests he may extend his order beyond the roughly 24,000 already included.

Management

The VA is not waste, it’s a lifeline

COMMENTARY | “There’s a way to improve VA without hasty and indiscriminate cuts that will set us back and hinder our ability to provide compassionate care,” argues one VA staffer and former combat medic.

Management

The DOGE-acolypse

COMMENTARY | All of Washington is a stage as the drama between DOGE and the three branches of the federal government play out in real time.

Management

EPA begins eliminating offices as DOGE tightens grip on nearly all agency spending

RIFs are expected for employees in impacted areas, while DOGE is now requiring special sign off for any large EPA expenditure.

Oversight

Judge orders DOGE to comply with FOIA requests

Trump officials have argued that records from the government efficiency initiative fall under the Presidential Records Act, which can temporarily shield information from public scrutiny.

Workforce

Top Republican and Democrat plan competing bills to curb VA firings, protect veterans

Thousands of veterans have lost their jobs across federal agencies in sweeping cuts by the Trump administration, according to lawmakers.

Management

In Defense of Bureaucracy

COMMENTARY | The administrative state is where things get done.

Workforce

Inside federal agencies' rush to reshape their workforces—and spare employees from layoffs

Trump has tasked agencies with developing aggressive reduction-in-force plans, but implementing staff are "still trying to save as many as we can."

Workforce

CIA is terminating some probationary employees

Recent U.S. intelligence has signaled that foreign adversaries are increasing efforts to recruit disgruntled federal employees in sensitive national security roles.

Management

Agency guidance on ‘five accomplishments’ email still inconsistent

Bureaus inside DHS are still reviewing past submissions from staff and have instructed their workers to hold off on sending more updates.

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NIH faces renewed DOGE directive to cut staff, putting thousands in line for RIFs

The Elon Musk-backed group is calling the shots even after President Trump’s edict that they let individual agencies take the lead.

Defense

‘5 bullet points’ email now a weekly task for Pentagon civilians

A short explanation of recent achievements is due every Tuesday, SecDef says in additional guidance.

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Pentagon is placing probationary employees on leave in advance of mass firings

The terminations are expected within weeks under plans to fire nearly one-tenth of DOD’s 55,000 “probies.”