As part of its sweeping reorganization plans, the Agriculture Department is telling at least some federal employees they have until the end of the month to decide whether they will pick up and relocate — or otherwise resign from their jobs.

For the tens of thousands of federal workers in Maryland who were laid off in the early days of the second Trump presidency, the cuts set off months of financial strain, career upheaval and emotional fallout in a state unusually dependent on federal employment.

The contract kicks off a Trump administration plan to track workers at the Social Security Administration and Departments of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.

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Environmental Protection Agency employees who were suspended last year after signing a letter criticizing Trump administration leadership at the agency are pushing forward with more than a dozen claims of unlawful agency retaliation.

The airport chaos has a name, a document, a sequence, and a private contractor waiting at the end of it. The staffing shortage is the cover story, the scheduled transfer of public infrastructure to private hands is the mechanism, and the workers are the proof of concept.

The U.S. Treasury Department will take over the Department of Education’s responsibility for collecting on defaulted federal student loan debt, President Donald Trump’s administration announced Thursday.

Tens of thousands of employees at the Department of Homeland Security officially missed their first full paychecks on Friday, as the agency shutdown reached its one-month mark — and counting.

The Trump administration is telling most agencies to proceed with terminating their collective bargaining agreements and derecognizing their federal unions in response to a pair of 2025 executive orders, despite ongoing litigation.