President Donald Trump looks poised to fire more federal employees if Congress cannot avert a government shutdown next week.

The Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to federal agencies Wednesday night instructing them to plan for staff ...

Trump could use a shutdown to dismantle government functions, wrote Max Stier, chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on improving the federal government.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a government shutdown has become a recurring event in Washington, though most of the time ...

Democratic leaders said the administration’s plan to fire government workers in the event of a shutdown would not prompt them ...

During a shutdown, recreational facilities funded by the federal government would be forced to close, leaving travelers and ...

The Office of Management and Budget says in a memo that agencies should prepare reduction-in-force plans to accompany ...

The White House has warned federal workers there will be more mass firings if Congress is unable to agree on a stopgap ...

A lapse in funding would furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers, but Social Security and other payments would ...

If the government isn't funded by next week, mass layoffs in federal agencies could occur, according to a White House office ...

Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown,” the Office of ...