Trump Administration Moves Swiftly to Shake Up Top Career Justice Dept. Ranks

The frenetic scale and speed of leadership changes that the Trump administration has made at the Justice Department in its first week alone indicate the degree to which it intends…

Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion

An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on administrative leave because she works on projects that connect Black…

How Trump Shifted Policy in Week 1, on Immigration, DEI and More

President Trump’s blunt message after a whirlwind week of executive orders and presidential proclamations may boil down to this: Take me at my word. During four years in political exile…

Musk Plan for Retooling Government Takes Shape, but Big Questions Loom

The initial plan for retooling the federal government under President Trump started with three loyal billionaires: the banker Howard Lutnick, the tech leader Elon Musk and the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.…

Tell Us How It Feels to Be a Federal Employee Right Now

The Trump administration is moving to make major changes to federal government jobs. These include an end to remote work, a rollback of some civil service job protections, the possible…

Trump Administration Temporarily Mutes Federal Health Officials

The Trump administration, moving quickly to clamp down on health and science agencies, has canceled a string of scientific meetings and instructed federal health officials to refrain from all public…

White House to Old Staff: Go Home. Don’t Call Us. We’ll Call You.

When the career staff of the National Security Council popped onto a video call at 11:30 on Wednesday morning, a sense of dread had already settled in. They knew exactly…

What’s Next for D.E.I. With Trump Back in Office?

President Trump had barely reacquainted himself with the Oval Office after his second inauguration when he began shredding the D.E.I. initiatives of the Biden administration, fulfilling a cause célèbre for…

If You Work for the Federal Government, How Are You Feeling About D.E.I.?

As President Trump vows to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal government, we would like to know how federal workers feel about the crackdown on what the president…

Trump Sued by Federal Employees Union Over Schedule F Order

The National Treasury Employees Union said on Tuesday that it has sued President Trump to block an executive order that would enable him to fire career federal workers across the…