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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department began firing more than 1,350 U.S.-based employees on Friday as the administration ...
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US State Department Begins Mass Layoffs
More than 1,300 State Department employees were fired Friday in a downsizing ordered by President Donald Trump and touted as cutting bloated government -- but which critics predict will hamstring US ...
In a bold move, the Trump administration began a large-scale restructuring of the State Department, leading to over 1,350 layoffs. Meanwhile, legal and international issues persist as a court rejects ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Labor Department say retirements and volunteer attrition have helped the agencies ...
Employees at the United States Institute of Peace were terminated for a second time by the Trump administration, after a ...
The State Department on Friday began laying off more than 1,300 staffers as it seeks to cut the size of its U.S. workforce by about 15%, part of the Trump administration's sweeping plan to reorganize ...
As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s ...
Layoff notices were issued to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments, stating that ...
Trump is pushing for cuts that could require 350 of the 433 sites run by the National Park Service to shut down.
Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.
President Donald Trump continues to garner headlines for the policies and actions his administration has undertaken since the beginning of his second term, with this week seeing federal agents finding ...
The dramatic reorientation of U.S. aid abroad comes as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany have announced a scaling down of their own foreign assistance budgets and as humanitarian crises in ...