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(Reuters) - White House and Treasury Department officials have agreed to prohibit the Department of Government Efficiency team from accessing personal taxpayer data at the Internal Revenue Service, th...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as the second highest ranking official at the U.S. Transportation Department vowed the government will take a fair a...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, who acquired the moniker "Grim Reaper" as the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, said on Thursday he will no...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - U.S. government employees who lose their jobs in President Donald Trump's ongoing purge of the federal workforce and bring legal challenges face an uphill battle, with p...

(Corrects headline to say February 26, not January 26) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S President Donald Trump will host his first cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday, February 26, White House p...

(Reuters) - Several labor groups sued the Trump administration for allegedly firing tens of thousands of probationary employees illegally, as part of its drive to overhaul the federal government. In a...

By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is expected to fire about 6,700 employees on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter said, eliminating roughly 7% of the tax-collectin...

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is set to confirm Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director, on Thursday, which would put a Trump loya...

By James Oliphant and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans worry that Elon Musk's drive to slash the federal government could hurt services their communities depend on and believ...

By Leah Douglas, Nathan Layne and Tim Reid (Reuters) - Federal workers fired for alleged poor performance as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's remaking of the federal government received excellent...