President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tour the Texas flood devastation and the State Department begins laying ...

Before Tuesday, a district court had barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees en masse as his executive ...

Along with rescissions hitting foreign aid, the new round of firings shows Trump is still bent on tearing down bipartisan ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that blocked sweeping layoffs of federal workers at nearly two dozen ...

At Trump's direction, the administration has come up with plans to reduce staff at the US Departments of Agriculture, ...

A Supreme Court decision giving the Trump administration the greenlight to lay off tens of thousands of employees threatens ...

According to the Associated Press, 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers were sent layoff notices Friday.

Big picture: The layoffs are part of efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the goal is a reduction of 15 percent, or roughly 2,000 employees.

The layoffs affect 1,107 civil service employees and 246 foreign service officers based in the United States, according to ...

At Trump's direction, the administration has come up with plans to reduce staff at the US Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and more than a dozen other agencies.