'These Are Human Beings': VA Fires 1,400 More Employees It Considers Nonessential The dismissals affect union workers who had served less than one or two years, depending on their jobs.
Federal Technology Staffers Resign Rather than Help Musk and DOGE More than 20 civil service employees resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency...
Billionaire Nominee for Deputy Defense Secretary Grilled on Plans to Slash Staff, Budget Billionaire businessman Stephen Feinberg faced sharp questions from Democrats about impending mass firings at the Defense...
Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Trump Purge Begins The massive round of firings is part of an "initial effort" to cut the Defense Department's civilian workforce by 5% to 8%...
Republicans Advance Massive Defense Budget Boost as Pentagon Eyes 'Offsets' A debate is brewing in Congress over the future of the defense budget as Republicans look to add up to $150 billion more to...
At Pentagon, Elon Musk Is Preparing to Access Department Systems A defense official who was granted anonymity to speak candidly on the matter said that members of the Department of...
A Comprehensive Look at DOGE's Firings and Layoffs So Far Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump's...
Senate GOP Pushes Ahead with Budget Bill That Funds Trump's Mass Deportations and Border Wall On a party-line vote, 50-47, Republicans launched the process, skipping ahead of the House Republicans who prefer President...
'We Welcome DOGE': Hegseth Says Musk Can Find Billions of Dollars in Pentagon Cuts Speaking to a small group of handpicked reporters while in Germany, Hegseth didn't answer the question of whether he would...
Navy Stays Silent on Panama Canal Use as Negotiations on Fees Stall The Navy's decision to stay silent amid the negotiations with Panama makes it difficult to accurately determine just how much...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
