The Trump administration illegally overhauled a U.S. Department of Homeland Security computer program in its hunt for noncitizen voters, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision that laid into federal officials for violating the privacy of millions of Americans. The ruling struck at the core of President Donald Trump’s project to assert authority over […]
An executive order Wednesday formalized Schedule Policy/Career, a new employment category that will strip job protections from close to 8,000 federal employees.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a fund that opponents fear will be used to pay off the president’s political allies.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with a fund that opponents fear will be used to pay off the president’s political allies. Judge Leonie Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a brief order halting the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department and other high-ranking administration officials from […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has attracted scrutiny for its corruption potential, even splitting congressional Republicans who rarely confront President Donald Trump’s decisions and policies. Among the top concerns: Could pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, riot defendants who assaulted police officers claim a slice of the pie and essentially be…
The $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund dominated headlines. The one-page addendum posted the next day permanently bars the IRS from auditing Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization, closing an active $72.9 million dispute. That part was quieter. It was designed to be.
Trump administration officials said moving jurisdiction away from MSPB and giving OPM the power to decide employee appeals will speed up RIFs and reduce costs.
Plaintiffs said Rollins' religious messages are “unconstitutionally coercive,” leaving USDA employees feeling “unwelcome, excluded and like outsiders.”
(RNS) — ‘Church-state separation ensures we are all free to live as ourselves and believe as we choose, as long as we don’t harm others,’ a church-state separationist countered.
The agreement will allow the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences to continue awarding grants and operating programs that support libraries and museums.
Conversions of career federal employees into the Trump administration's new Schedule Policy/Career may become finalized as soon as March 9.
An expanded lawsuit comes just days ahead of President Donald Trump’s anticipated finalization of federal employee transfers into Schedule Policy/Career.
As the lawmakers sit in the House chamber listening to Trump's agenda for the year ahead, the moment is an existential one for the Congress.
The spending bill that funds the Education Department bars covered agencies from using funds in any way that “relocates an office or employees."
A year after the Trump administration told agencies to compile headcount reduction plans, House Democrats reflected on wide-ranging consequences.
A Schedule Policy/Career final rule aims to make it easier to fire some career employees. About 94% of comments on OPM's initial proposal opposed the change.
The launch of the bicameral Federal Workforce Caucus comes after a year of major changes to the career civil service under the Trump administration.
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