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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

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

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

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

EPA + USDA employees targeted

USAID and EPA employees are being individually targeted for allocating funds

March 5, 2025
Environment

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

Deputy Director of FBI named

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

February 23, 2025
Intelligence

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

Jammed due to short staff

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

February 22, 2025
Environment

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

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

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

Tillis votes on Hegseth due to “death threats”

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

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

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

Burgum promises to hire 5,000 temporary park workers

February 20, 2025
Environment

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

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

Youth programs for Forest Service canceled

Youth Conservation Programs cancelled due to federal budget cuts

February 15, 2025
Environment

Full-time preservationist fired

"After working for four seasons for the national park service..."

February 15, 2025
Environment

Documents coming out showing what's next

Internal docs obtained by WashPost show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next

February 14, 2025
All

+2,000 DOI / 1,000 NPS staff fired

One-Thousand National Park Service Staff Fired, Seasonal Hiring Resuming

February 14, 2025
Environment

Interruptions caused by EOs delay prevention

How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire

February 14, 2025
Environment

360 MT USFS terminated

Montana’s largest land manager launches widespread termination of recently hired federal employees.

February 14, 2025
Environment

OPM calls probation part of "application process"

Interior Department fires 2,300 employees after OPM directive

February 14, 2025
Environment

Probationary periods up to 3 years still fired

Firing the next generation of scientists from the US workforce

February 14, 2025
Science

From firing workers to accessing their data, what's happening?

What DOGE Is Doing Across the Federal Government

February 13, 2025
All

All Biden-appointed prosecutors fired without protocol

Donald Trump Fires Biden-Appointed US Attorneys

February 13, 2025
DOJ

Rescinded offers and layoffs threatens parks

'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos

February 13, 2025
Environment

All OPM probationary fired

They just fired all probationary employees in OPM

February 13, 2025
Management

3,400 USFS to be laid off

Union Rep: 3,400 USFS employees to be laid off, 360 in Montana

February 13, 2025
Union

Chief info officers of agencies replaced with Silicon executives

Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles

February 12, 2025
All

Trump's updated KC board elects him

New Kennedy Center board elects Trump chair, ousts Rutter as president

February 12, 2025
Art

ICE officials demoted+ officers overworked

Trump Orders ICE Purge of Top Officials as Deportations Fall Short

February 12, 2025
Immigration

Precedent set for Musk to take money from any bank account

Musk administration just started draining private bank accounts via the US Treasury

February 12, 2025
Treasury

Reorganization to RIFs

Trump EO directs agencies to submit reorganization plans, prepare for RIFs

February 11, 2025
All

If you lose 4, you can gain 1

Trump EO directs agencies to submit reorganization plans, prepare for RIFs

February 11, 2025
All

Too many people too fast

GSA ‘losing too many people,’ as leaders pursue cuts to personnel, office space and contracts

February 11, 2025
Management

Another resource for civil servants taken away

White House orders Federal Executive Institute to shut down

February 11, 2025
Management

Conference room windows covered with paper

Secrecy preceded the shutdown of the consumer protection agency's Washington headquarters

February 10, 2025
CFPB

Republicans on FEMA + hypocrisy

Senior Republican Senator considers FEMA’s future

February 10, 2025
Environment

Musk claims need citizens' PPI for "audit" of FEMA

Noem defends Musk’s access to personal data

February 9, 2025
All

The future for those who took the offer

Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge’s order

February 9, 2025
DRA

Musk wants judge fired

Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury

February 9, 2025
Treasury

Hypocrisy is the new aristocracy

Elon Musk, Who Smoked Weed On Rogan's Podcast, Calls Federal Drug Testing A 'Great Idea'

February 8, 2025
All

U.S. Archivist fired

Trump fires U.S. archivist, the official responsible for government records

February 8, 2025
All

EPA’s new admin to boost AI and automotive

Staff placed on leave, map tool shut down in tumultuous week at EPA

February 8, 2025
Environment

168 EPA staff on leave, more layoffs expected

Staff let go, map tool shut down in tumultuous week at EPA

February 8, 2025
Environment

DOGE kid bypasses security check and accesses DOE + others

DOGE Gains Access to Department That Oversees Nuclear Weapons: Reports

February 7, 2025
All

Court extends offer deadline

Deadline For Trump’s Federal Buyout Offer Extended By Court—As Over 65,000 Staff Agree To Leave: Here’s What To Know

February 7, 2025
DRA

DOE next. Dems denied access

Elon Musk says Department of Education no longer ‘exists’

February 7, 2025
Education

DNR can't access funds for prevention

Officials: WA loses access to $200M in wildfire preparedness funding

February 7, 2025
Environment

Firefighters "exempt" or not?

Trump’s Executive Order Is Making It Harder to Hire Firefighters

February 7, 2025
Environment

Now FEMA accesssed

Elon Musk’s agents have gained access to FEMA’s sensitive disaster data

February 7, 2025
Management

OPM Vought to also be CFPB Vought

Russell Vought Taking Over as New Acting Head of CFPB

February 7, 2025
Population

No wonder rangers have not been hired...

NM Wild condemns federal order to review National Monuments’ exemption from mining, oil and gas

February 6, 2025
Environment

Schedule F. Vought now OPM head

Russ Vought, champion of Schedule F and slashing agency budgets, wins confirmation to OMB

February 6, 2025
Management

OPM issues guidance on EOs

New Memo dropped: Further Guidance Regarding Ending DEIA Offices, Programs and Initiatives

February 5, 2025
All

Shutdown looms with funding freeze

Shutdown fears grow as Trump battles multiply

February 5, 2025
All

DOJ wants unusual review of 1/6 FBI agents

Justice Dept. official accuses FBI chief of ‘insubordination,’ tamps down talk of revenge on agents

February 5, 2025
DOJ

The effect of FBI mass firings

Agents say mass firings could dangerously weaken FBI in three ways

February 5, 2025
DOJ

Lack of transparency across agenices

Trump’s crackdown on federal workforce alarms military families

February 5, 2025
Defense

So it continues...into the VA

Elon Musk Aide Is Now Working at VA and Accessing Its Computer Systems

February 5, 2025
Defense

Administration cancels FLETC

New Law Enforcement Training Class For Park Rangers Canceled

February 5, 2025
Environment

EPA now on admin leave

EPA-OEJECR ( Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights) Employees put on Admin Leave

February 5, 2025
Environment
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