The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to proceed for the time being with Federal agency reorganization and reduction-in-force (RIF) plans proposed by the White House earlier this year, but also appeared to carve out some room in an order issued on July 8 for specific agency reorganization and RIF plans to be challenged in lower courts.   […]

The Trump Administration has extended its Federal government-wide hiring freeze until mid-October – just days before the hiring pause was scheduled to expire.   […]

Now that the Senate has pushed its version of reconciliation funding over the finish line amid a blizzard of changes to the bill, here’s a look at a few workforce and tech items that either failed to make the final version of the legislation, or were beaten back on the funding front during the process.   […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on July 1 announced plans to modernize its FedScope platform which serves as a resource for accessing data about the Federal workforce, and released some new – though now out of date compared to other sources – data on the size and composition of the Federal workforce as of March 2025. […]

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Republicans released the text of their reconciliation bill on Friday, which contains language that would make it easier for the Trump administration to fire Federal employees. […]

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., is demanding answers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its recent restructuring moves that have reduced the agency’s IT and cybersecurity personnel.   […]

The majority of Americans are concerned about cuts to the Federal workforce and government services, according to new polling data from the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service (PPS). […]

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., called out President Trump’s recent cybersecurity executive order (EO) today, asserting that it leaves states vulnerable to future cyberattacks. […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the latest Federal entity to make major cuts to its workforce including moves to centralize its information technology (IT) employees, according to a Thursday notice from the department.  […]

A prominent Federal program aimed at bringing young professionals into the government has seen a 64 percent decrease in hires, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which says the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) should do more to improve the talent pipeline. […]

A bevy of tech-sector and public interest groups are calling on the Trump administration to maintain current guidance on Federal agency artificial intelligence use case inventories to ensure transparency and accountability in government AI deployment, while others are pleading with the administration to not slash the Federal workforce critical to AI innovation.  […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is reinstating most of the probationary employees that it laid off while following directions from the Trump administration to cut those employees from its workforce.    […]

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is offering its employees incentives to reduce the agency’s workforce by 7,000 people as part of what the SSA is billing as a “massive reorganization.”   […]

A member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) stepped down last week, leaving the board with only a narrow quorum to act as its case load quickly mounts following the Trump administration’s moves to quickly reduce the Federal workforce.   […]

Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee said today they are pulling their support for legislation that aims to build the cybersecurity workforce, citing their opposition to widespread Federal employee layoffs being instituted by the Trump administration.   […]

An independent Federal board has granted a stay on the firing of some Federal workers who were laid off during their probationary period by the Trump administration after the firings were appealed by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).   […]

Members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee clashed on Tuesday over the impacts of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), mounting Federal worker firings, and defense spending levels, with one Republican member predicting that the current turmoil at Federal agencies may be the “tip of the iceberg.” […]

Although the exact number of Federal employees who have been – or will be – affected by widespread layoffs instituted the Trump administration is not immediately clear, recent reports suggest the current number of cuts tops 12,000. […]

President Donald Trump late on Tuesday issued an executive order that aims to make deep cuts to the Federal government civilian workforce via “reductions in force” – more commonly known as layoffs. […]

Trump administration officials have directed senior staff members at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to make plans to cut 70 percent of the agency’s workforce. […]

President Trump on Monday declared an immediate but temporary freeze on hiring of Federal government civilian employees – but with plenty of wide exceptions for military and public safety positions and for agencies that distribute benefits to citizens. […]

As the Trump administration prepares to take office on Jan. 20, government experts said on Monday that they expect to see an executive order from President-elect Donald Trump related to Schedule F in his first week, and they shared what that means for the Federal workforce. […]

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) celebrated the conclusion of the Biden-Harris President’s Management Agenda (PMA) on Wednesday, bringing together the individuals and teams who have made significant contributions to the PMA to recap its successes. […]

The White House announced a slew of new initiatives and partnerships on Wednesday that back up its continuing push toward expanding the Federal workforce while reducing barriers to hiring people without college degrees.  […]

A Federal workforce shake-up and probable changes to existing Federal policies for the government’s approach to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are two of the major government policy issues that loom large for early action by the incoming Trump administration. […]

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Sept. 25 reintroduced the Chai Suthammanont Healthy Federal Workplaces Act – a bill designed to protect Federal employees during public health emergencies. […]

Federal workforce experts told lawmakers today that the potential revival of a controversial Trump-era Federal workforce policy known as “Schedule F” would not only disrupt the stability of the Federal workforce, but it would also weaken national security. […]

After more than a year of probing, lawmakers have finally received agency data from the White House on Federal telework numbers. […]

Making the Federal government workforce flourish is at the very top of the President Biden’s management agenda, and the wheels are in motion on Capitol Hill, at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and at Federal agencies to execute on the vision of restocking the government with top-notch talent. […]

COVID-19 may never leave us entirely, but the White House took official steps last week to ramp down much of the preventative guidance it had put in place while the pandemic was raging in 2020 and 2021. […]