Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vaccine policies, according to colleagues.

The departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy groups.

Lawyers representing federal workers said the move is intended to chill speech and could be challenged on First Amendment grounds.

Officials wrote a memo outlining ways to challenge President Trump’s suit against the Internal Revenue Service. The administration is instead creating an “anti-weaponization” fund.

President Trump chose Cameron Hamilton to direct federal disaster response. As acting head of FEMA last year, he had opposed abolishing the agency and was ousted.

The agency said staff members who had been let go or placed on administrative leave were now needed to prepare for hurricanes and the World Cup.

The call amounted to a rebuke of Speaker Mike Johnson, who has delayed action on a homeland security spending bill and suggested this week that it needed changes.

Ms. Comey, a former federal prosecutor who handled cases against Jeffery Epstein and Sean Combs, claimed in her suit that she was fired for political reasons.

Calley Means remained president of a company that relied on health savings accounts last year as the Trump administration developed policies to expand them.

Migrant arrest rates have been high in places like Long Island, where federal agents benefit from stealth and the aid of local politicians.

People have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers estimate that less than half have found full-time work.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought to roll back longstanding vaccine policy, testified that the measles vaccine is safe and effective “for most people” and agreed it was safer than getting measles.

President Trump’s annual budget request to Congress continues his administration’s defunding of climate change programs, environmental protection and renewable energy, slashing the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The spending plan for fiscal 2027 “builds on the President’s vision by…

The memorandum calls for paying employees at the Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who have gone without pay during a record-long shutdown.

At least 120,000 law enforcement officers who work for the agency have continued to collect paychecks throughout the funding lapse. But tens of thousands of workers have gone without pay.

President Trump’s announcement came as talks on Capitol Hill over funding the Department of Homeland Security faltered, and airport lines continued to grow.

It was unclear whether having agents helping with screening passengers would improve wait times. Some travelers expressed worries.

A collision between an Air Canada Express jet and a fire truck on Sunday night left two pilots dead and dozens injured.

Two controllers were said to be working at LaGuardia Airport’s control center at the time of the crash that killed two pilots, and one had been dealing with an odor on a United Airlines plane.

The shortage of checkpoint workers created lines of at least three hours at LaGuardia Airport. Many passengers doubted ICE agents were the solution.

Woodrow Wilson’s presidency has taken on new resonance among historians and critics of President Trump, particularly when it comes to race.

While he was supposed to serve in a limited role as an adviser to Kristi Noem, Mr. Lewandowski had wide influence over contracts, personnel and operations inside the agency over the last year.

One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of the Interior is in turmoil, hobbling many of the agencies overseeing the country’s public lands and waters. Not only has Interior lost some 11,000 employees, or more than 17 percent of its workforce, it is also reeling from a drastic centralization of personnel: Last […]

Julie T. Le, a former government lawyer, described in stark terms how overstretched the legal system had become during the administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Now, she said, she hopes to fix the “system’s failures” by running for Congress.

When President Donald Trump first sought to be the Republican standard-bearer in 2016, he promised to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency to “little tidbits.” Ten years later, he is closer than ever to that goal, according to an Inside Climate News analysis of federal workforce data released by the Office of Personnel Management. The EPA […]

The Trump administration said in a memo it wanted to “avoid the risk of impaired objectivity” by hiring former staff members to wind down operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

GOP lawmakers ensured there was enough money for the immigration crackdown, but the funding pause threatens other Homeland Security work.

As Congress leaves town without funding their department, airport security officers wonder, “How many more times am I going to be able to do this?”

A collection of former civil servants are waging first-time campaigns this year. Some said that President Trump’s attacks on the work force motivated them to run.

Jim Stolley, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, has left as government prosecutors grapple with a crush of cases.