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By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All probationary staff at the Office of Personnel Management were fired on Thursday in a conference call and given less than an hour to leave the building in Washing...

By Jack Queen and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has moved to dramatically shrink the size of the federal workforce and mass terminations have already begun at several U.S. governm...

By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday extended a pause on the Trump administration's plan to put thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development workers on leave u...

By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Gavin Kliger, one of the top staffers working with Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the federal government, arrived at the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday to examin...

By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has asked U.S. embassies worldwide to prepare for staff cuts, three sources familiar with the matt...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has secured enough votes from U.S. senators to be confirmed as the nation's top health officia...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel, won the approval of the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, clearing t...

By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Brooke Rollins, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and former White House policy advisor who has expressed doubt about c...

By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mass firings at multiple U.S. government agencies have begun as President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America's federal bureaucrac...

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday many federal government agencies must be eliminated as part of President Donald Trump's push to radically overhaul the U.S...