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More independent watchdogs fired...and questionably replaced

Fired FTC Democrats fear Trump will urge regulator to go easy on his Big Tech donors

March 19, 2025
FTC

Returning to work...in what conditions?

FDA staff return to crowded offices, broken equipment and missing chairs

March 18, 2025
Health

DOGE broke into HQ

U.S. Institute of Peace is DOGE’s Next Target

March 18, 2025
USIP

USIP is not even an agency

DOGE staff entered the U.S. Institute of Peace with D.C. police help

March 18, 2025
USIP

"ruled the government has to rehire..."

Confused Trump answers questions from 'plane bathroom' in worrying interview

March 17, 2025
Judicial

Immediate mass fire via email

Job cuts at NOAA drive concerns about extreme weather forecasts, as climate change worsens natural disasters

March 13, 2025
Environment

Saving money or costing rights?

The Education Department is being cut in half. Here's what's being lost

March 12, 2025
Education

Website to help laid-off feds

Governors to laid-off federal workers: We’ll hire you

March 11, 2025
All

All back in pay status and with back pay after MSPB stay order

USDA hires back all 6,000 fired workers from past month, including public land employees

March 11, 2025
Environment

Fired despite compliance

Trump Justice Department Fires Head of Organized Crime Drug Task Force

March 8, 2025
DOJ

EO in works but only Congress can abolish

Advocates gear up for fight to preserve Education Department

March 8, 2025
Education

Treasury layoffs may devastate local economy

DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland

March 8, 2025
Party

Sanders demands investigation and subpoena

Bernie Sanders Blasts Musk’s DOGE for Quietly Seizing Control of Federal Agencies

March 7, 2025
All

Thousands temporarily reinstated

Labor board temporarily reinstates laid-off Forest Service worker's employment

March 7, 2025
MSPB

OSC head (watchdog) officially fired

Watchdog agency head fired by Trump ends fight to keep his job

March 7, 2025
OSC

GOP lawmakers respond to Supreme Court

Senate Republicans push to codify DOGE cuts after Musk meeting

March 5, 2025
Congress

House speaker Chief of Staff crashes into Capital car

House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff arrested on DUI charge after Trump speech

March 5, 2025
Congress

EPA + USDA employees targeted

USAID and EPA employees are being individually targeted for allocating funds

March 5, 2025
Environment

USDA workers fired ordered back

Nearly 6,000 USDA workers fired by Trump ordered back to work for now

March 5, 2025
Environment

White House continue to dispute in lower courts

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s request to keep billions in foreign aid frozen

March 5, 2025
USAID

AFD holds the line

The African Development Foundation denying DOGE + Pete Marocco access to their building

March 4, 2025
AFD

Revised a memo to not fire all on probation

Trump Suddenly Reverses Order on Mass Firing of Federal Employees

March 4, 2025
Management

The collapse from a tech perspective

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

March 4, 2025
Tech

DOGE has unprecedented access to internal systems

DOJ spokesperson resigns, citing ‘toxic work environment’

February 28, 2025
DOJ

Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey changes

OPM delays FEVS timeline, removes DEIA survey questions

February 28, 2025
Management

Cuts appear to happen in two rounds

NOAA layoffs: Hundreds of meteorologists, forecasters fired in latest DOGE cuts

February 28, 2025
Science

Trump reversed EO banning WH officials from accepting gifts

Democratic Lawmaker Turns Republicans' Words Against Them in 'Drain the Swamp' Act Against Lobbyist Gifts: 'Trump Can Fulfill His Promise'

February 27, 2025
Congress

Why is the admin so tied up with pro-fighting?

FBI Director Kash Patel wants to bring the UFC to the FBI, sources say

February 27, 2025
DOJ

She believed when he said P25 was not his plan

She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this

February 27, 2025
Environment

"this country is not going to be able to function"

Fired Lowell federal worker talks about what is lost in mass firings

February 27, 2025
Environment

New USFS Chief

Secretary Rollins names Tom Schultz Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service

February 27, 2025
Environment

Back-peddling in flight

Elon Musk wants 'top notch' retired air traffic controllers to consider returning to work

February 27, 2025
FAA

$1 billion plan to combat spread of avian flu

Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees

February 27, 2025
Health

Judge rules firings are illegal but doesn't reinstate

Judge orders Trump admin to rescind memo directing mass firing of federal workers

February 27, 2025
Judicial

No legality in at least six agencies

Federal judge invalidates OPM’s directives to terminate federal probationary workers

February 27, 2025
Judicial

MSPB is quasi-judicial agency that hears appeals in labor disputes

6 federal workers get their jobs back in 1st successful challenge to Trump's firings

February 26, 2025
All

Donald Trump: “They’ll follow the orders, yes they will.”

"[do] you have the power to call up all of the people seated at this cabinet table and issue orders that they’re bound to follow?”

February 26, 2025
All

Official RIFs go beyond layoffs to eliminating positions

Trump administration tells agencies to begin conducting reductions in force

February 26, 2025
All

DJT can't think of another way to track feds than 2nd email

‘Bloated and Fat and Disgusting!’ Trump Closes Cabinet Meeting By Blasting Nation He Leads

February 26, 2025
All

Abolishing the CFPB

Donalds Introduces Bill to Abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

February 26, 2025
CFPB

Isn't that a complain, Mrs. Greene?

Greene continued to accuse her Democratic colleagues of "complaining" and "pitching tantrums" about actions taken by billionaire Elon Musk and DOGE

February 26, 2025
Congress

First phase of RIFs/RIF notices for USFS is set to start

Region 6 USFS updates from leadership

February 26, 2025
Environment

USFS, prepare

Forest Service chief resigns, tells Wyoming, national workforce to brace for ‘unsettling’ times

February 26, 2025
Environment

Cancelled and replaced automatically

Performance plans are being cancelled

February 25, 2025
All

Example of a recent democracy dismantled

Former U.S. ambassador to Hungary discusses democratic decay under Viktor Orbán

February 25, 2025
All

To avoid a filibuster

Reconciliation is the key to unlocking Trump's agenda. Here's how it works

February 25, 2025
Congress

Feds not on taxpayer dollar fired

Flathead Forest layoffs, Columbia Falls explosion, and Glacier unveils wildfire plan

February 25, 2025
Environment

SAID and the State Department, have appealed

Judge tells Trump administration it has less than 2 days to resume USAID funding

February 25, 2025
USAID

The end of a nonpartisan FBI

Patel said deputy director should come from within - then a conservative podcaster got the job

February 24, 2025
DOJ

Remaining staff take on helping visitors

Firing on: Remaining Forest Service staff fill in to keep Mendenhall Glacier activities flowing

February 24, 2025
Environment

The master’s, classes, wildfire deployments seemed to disappear

Fired federal workers hunt for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones

February 24, 2025
Environment

AI in HR?

I replied and the email address in the "reply to" email was different than hr@opm.gov

February 24, 2025
Management

"...seeing employees as a better part of the system..."

Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

February 23, 2025
All

Visitors spent $26.4 bil in communities near national parks in '23

Fired Federal Employees Describe Turmoil in Final Days: 'Massacre'

February 23, 2025
All

50% drop in ticket sales

Trump takeover sees Kennedy Center suffer ticket sale collapse, says report

February 23, 2025
Art

Maine senator worried about parks and biomed research

Republican Senator Calls Trump's Mass Firings a ‘Big Problem'

February 23, 2025
Congress

Under Secretary of Defense responds

Pentagon Tells Staff to Disregard Elon Musk's Demand

February 23, 2025
Defense

Fired because maybe hired because of race?

Who is Trump's pick for chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine?

February 23, 2025
Defense

Military lawyers fired to change "status quo"

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

February 23, 2025
Defense

Rippling effects for mass layoffs

600 civilian employees at Tinker Air Force Base face termination amid workforce shakeup

February 23, 2025
Defense

USDA Republican pleads for reinstatement

A Post By A MAGA Supporter Who Said They Were Laid Off Because Of Trump's Cuts Is Going Mega-Viral

February 23, 2025
Environment

Deputy Director of FBI named

Trump just named Right wing podcaster Dan Bongingo Deputy Director of the FBI

February 23, 2025
Intelligence

Republican pushback on Musk email

Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk’s latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade

February 23, 2025
Management

A non-answer back-peddle

Musk: Federal workers who gave ‘good responses’ to new policy deserve promotion consideration

February 23, 2025
Management

Never forget

Pritzker: “Trump is not a kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend my knee to one who seek to divide America between blue and red state

February 23, 2025
Party

Why did no one stop Norris?

Why Are Democrats Silent? Sheriff Robert Norris Is a Warning of America’s Descent into Fascism, It’s Time to Speak Out

February 23, 2025
Party

Clearly to intimidate and create confusion

The union that protects federal employees has responded

February 23, 2025
Union

Praises himself for "dominating" DC and ridding bureaucrats

Trump celebrates mass federal firings in his speech to supporters at CPAC

February 22, 2025
All

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

FBI Director Kash Patel to be named ATF chief

February 22, 2025
DOJ

"Snowden"s?

National security risk of thousands of cleared employees suddenly out of work

February 22, 2025
Defense

Jammed due to short staff

EPA asks to miss key California deadline, blames ‘budget and staffing’

February 22, 2025
Environment

Past probationaries started receiving calls

FDA Begins to Rescind Firings, Calls Some Employees Back to Work

February 22, 2025
Health

You won't benefit from this

Tech experts Trump fired from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau say consumers at risk

February 21, 2025
CFPB

You won't be saving any money with this cut

What’s at stake if Consumer Financial Protection Bureau goes dark

February 21, 2025
CFPB

CFPB head fired + work halted

California files lawsuit over shutdown of US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

February 21, 2025
CFPB

"A lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI"

GOP congressman faces criticism and several boos at Georgia town hall

February 21, 2025
Congress

Republicans ask for more hires

Tuberville, Britt urge new FBI director Kash Patel to fill 1,000 employee slots at Redstone Arsenal

February 21, 2025
DOJ

Hegseth can't justify starting with probationaries

Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Trump Purge Begins

February 21, 2025
Defense

Can you guess?

CJCOS, CNO and Commandant of the Coast Guard fired. Why them and not the other 3 heads of the services?

February 21, 2025
Defense

Perm. probationary employees to be rehired

USFS permanent employees rehired in Helene impacted Region 8

February 21, 2025
Environment

Staffing through the eyes of Glacier and Yellowstone

National Park Service cuts bring uncertainty for employees and visitors

February 21, 2025
Environment

1,000 Fired. Listings are for "displaced" and "surplus"

Firings Squeeze National Parks: ‘You Won’t Have the Full Experience’

February 21, 2025
Environment

A nonsensical background is perfect for nonsense

Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s spy chief makes sense, actually

February 21, 2025
Intelligence

23 state AGS to save CFPB

Coalition of 23 state AGs work to defend Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from President Trump, Elon Musk

February 20, 2025
CFPB

Tillis votes on Hegseth due to “death threats”

Republicans Are “Scared Sh*tless” of Trump’s Fans

February 20, 2025
Congress

Begich, the nothing-burger

Freshman Congressman tells constituent he is powerless to stop Musk's budget cuts

February 20, 2025
Congress

She will do everything she can to dismantle DOE

Senate committee advances ex-wrestling CEO Linda McMahon as Trump’s nominee for education secretary

February 20, 2025
Education

Will probationary employees be rehired?

Unfrozen vs. relisted just got more confusing.

February 20, 2025
Environment

Memo says 7,700. Burgum says 5,000.

Burgum promises to hire 5,000 temporary park workers

February 20, 2025
Environment

Guilty with no punishment?

Judge rules Trump admin violated order to unfreeze foreign aid but declines to hold officials in contempt

February 20, 2025
USAID

Rehires ramp up

Some fired probationary feds are receiving unexpected emails: 'You're re-hired'

February 19, 2025
All

DEI is not used to qualify

Why do bad things keep getting blamed on DEI?

February 17, 2025
All

It's not just a "RIF"

Stop referring to the illegal firings as “RIFs”

February 16, 2025
All

3,400 USFS probationary employees fired

For the love of public lands

February 16, 2025
Environment

4% of workforce fired

Which agencies have been hit by federal layoffs? What to know about NPS, NIH, IRS, more

February 15, 2025
All

See through the distractions

‘The Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick

February 15, 2025
All

CFPB firings blocked by judge

Judge blocks mass firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

February 15, 2025
CFPB

Non-taxpayer funded fed fired

Got the email. CMS Probationary employee (Recent Grad/Pathways Program)

February 15, 2025
Education

To-be intern canceled after move

Student who moved to DC for internship finds out Trump's federal freeze canceled it

February 15, 2025
Education

Right after the LA fires we get this

Trump funding freeze halts wildfire prevention work

February 15, 2025
Environment
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