Internal emails show then-28-year-old DOGE affiliate Jeremy Lewin signed USAID’s mass firings while its HR office had no record of him as an employee.
Federal labor board upholds an award restoring HHS workers’ telework, finding over half the agency’s brief citations fictitious, erroneous or irrelevant, possibly from AI.
Federal judge rules the Office of Personnel Management broke privacy law giving DOGE agents personal data on millions of federal workers and applicants.
Trump’s Homeland Security appointees asked its cybersecurity agency to secretly get and hack a voting machine for the White House, ProPublica reports.
Veterans Affairs Department again ends union contract covering more than 320,000 workers, citing an appeals court stay the union says gives no such permission.
Federal judge temporarily blocks Agriculture Department from using money Congress approved to move thousands of employees to five regional hubs, siding with unions.
Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump administration’s bid to shield DOGE from public records requests, three months after the Musk-led cost-cutting unit shut down.
Bureau of Prisons scraps its union contract again eight days after a judge ordered it restored, its director allegedly saying “I don’t take directives from the court.”
Social Security ends flexible work schedules Nov. 16, which a union says breaks a contract running to 2029, with staffing at a 50-year low.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Pulte cuts his inspector general’s budget 61%, ending its mortgage fraud investigations, a crime he claims to prioritize.
Federal judge orders Bureau of Prisons to restore its union contract covering 30,000 prison workers, a year after its director called bargaining a “roadblock.”
ICE plans to hire 5,000 more officers, a 17% jump, after four straight months of record arrests topping 50,000 in August, NewsNation reports.
FAA readies the AI advisory tool from an $875 million contract for Washington airspace as soon as Monday, months after cutting its controller estimate by 2,000.
Six Senate Democrats demand Office of Personnel Management halt collecting claims-level health records on 8 million federal workers and families, data the agency can re-identify.
Federal watchdog finds paid administrative leave hit $9.5 billion last year, up 435% since 2023, mostly for 144,000 employees paid not to work before resigning.
Federal judge rules DHS broke the law with its plan to halve FEMA’s 23,000-person workforce over FEMA’s own objections, calling the cut “pulled from thin air.”
Federal judge halts “favorite Trump initiative” essay question on federal job applications after 16 months, finding it likely violates applicants’ First Amendment rights.
CDC gives employees with disabilities 20 days to resubmit medical paperwork it already received or lose interim accommodations, with 3,000 requests backlogged after HR layoffs.
4 federal unions sue to halt the Agriculture Department’s relocation of 2,600 Washington-area employees as a disguised layoff after 1 in 3 reassigned workers decline.
Trump will fly the Qatari-gifted Air Force One to Ireland this month, 2 months after secretly leaving Turkey on another plane over security concerns.
ICE vetting official warns Homeland Security’s inspector general the agency hired recruits before background checks in its 12,000-officer surge, posing “grave national security risks,” the New York Times reports.
Forest Service will close nearly 2 dozen research facilities, dissolve all regional offices and move its headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City, claiming $16 million in savings.
Agriculture Department defunds 2 of 3 programs studying the foodborne parasite Cyclospora and moves the third to Iowa, where no scientist will follow, during a record outbreak, POLITICO reports.
Trump sets a 2027 pay freeze for most federal workers while giving law enforcement a second straight 3.8% raise, blaming Biden-era inflation that has since risen from 2.8% to 3.3%.
FBI drops its automatic hiring ban on applicants who paid for sex, easing standards to rebuild a workforce depleted by firings, resignations and retirements.
EEOC votes 2-1 to propose ending federal workers’ guaranteed hearing before a judge on discrimination claims and banning class complaints, with comments due in 30 days.
Judge permanently blocks the FBI headquarters move within Washington, ruling the administration illegally diverted over $1 billion Congress appropriated for the Greenbelt, Maryland site.
Federal discrimination cases frozen for months suddenly restarted days after a union sued the EEOC, which calls the halt a judge’s error.
Judge orders VA to restore its 320,000-employee union contract after the department’s third termination attempt this year defied her standing injunction.
Transgender federal workers sue OPM over canceled insurance coverage of gender-affirming care, arguing the same treatments remain covered for other employees.
Arbitrator rules HHS illegally fired 5,000 probationary employees, finding the mass terminations a reduction in force masquerading as performance dismissals.
Senate confirms Manhattan prosecutor Jay Clayton as intelligence director hours after the acting chief announced a fifth round of staff cuts since June.
DHS statistics chief Marc Rosenblum resigns citing wars on immigrants, federal workers and facts, a rare public rebuke from inside the department.
ODNI quietly loses about 200 personnel to firings and reassignments since acting chief Pulte arrived June 2, shrinking the spy coordinator to about half its size.
GAO finds the Space Force cannot justify how many people it needs as leaders seek $71 billion and a doubling of the young service.
The Merit Systems Protection Board stops calling itself independent, scrubbing the word from its website after the Supreme Court expanded presidential firing power.
Space Force swears in 18 Air Force Reservists as the military’s first part-time troops able to shift between duty statuses under one command.
Arbitrator orders the Forest Service to restore telework for 20,000 employees, ruling the return-to-office mandate a clear and patent contract breach.
Cyclosporiasis outbreak tops 3,000 cases across 31 states, matching a normal full year in one event, as the government has yet to name the contaminated food.
Unions sue to block USDA’s relocation of thousands of Washington-area employees, arguing it is a disguised mass layoff that Congress explicitly barred without its approval.
The Bureau of Prisons permanently closes six federal facilities across four states, citing an extreme staffing crisis despite receiving $5 billion from last year’s budget law.
A reversal of decades of wildfire science draws scrutiny after three federal firefighters die in Colorado under Trump’s new full-suppression policy and untested fire agency.
Trump nominates acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to lead the department permanently, two months after Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid abuse-of-power allegations.
The Trump administration cancels 53 of 67 federal teen pregnancy prevention grants worth $68 million, calling the evidence-based programs misaligned with its priorities.
Acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte removes about 50 staff from the national intelligence office in his first days, gutting the directorate that coordinates all 18 U.S. spy agencies.
The Education Department’s inspector general finds that mass layoffs left the agency unable to perform dozens of legally required functions, with offices emptied of staff.
A Delta flight from Dallas aborts its Boston landing to avoid an American Airlines jet departing an intersecting runway, the latest near-miss the FAA is investigating.
ICE moves to sell or give away seven of the 11 warehouses it bought for $700 million to expand detention, abandoning a signature Noem initiative after lawsuits and an inspector general probe.
The TSA plans to fly thousands of supervisors to Nevada or Georgia for overnight stays to attend a four-hour training, despite the administration’s efficiency push.
Border czar Homan vows the largest ICE deployment New York City has ever seen after Hochul signs immigrant-protection laws.