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.
FBI fires five analysts behind retracted 2023 Catholic-extremism memo, latest purge under Director Kash Patel.
Trump signs an order stripping civil service protections from about 8,000 senior federal employees, reviving the Schedule F plan from his first term.
Defense Secretary Hegseth strikes at least seven Navy officers from a one-star promotion list chosen by senior admirals, leaving no women on the final slate.
Trump spins a New York Times analysis showing more than 10,000 federal lawyers have left since 2024, calling the exodus “very good” for the country.
National Science Foundation tells disabled employees to retest existing accommodations in a new building before honoring them, the union says.
Labor Department urges employees to report colleagues for past DEI work, citing a three-year window that reaches back before Trump took office.
OPM proposes requiring all federal employees to sign NDA barring disclosure of internal information after leaks exposed controversial layoff and performance management plans.
Booz Allen Hamilton on pace to make 3.4x its own Recreation.gov estimate, projected $620 million by 2028 contract end as DOGE cuts oversight.
White House orders all federal agencies to auto-install its official app on every government phone, pushing Trump policy statements, social media feeds, and a “text President Trump” button to millions of employees.
OMB orders agencies to report all federal spending on 49 nonprofits doing DEI, LGBTQ+, immigration, civil rights, environmental and humanitarian work, including funding under active litigation.
Labor Department appoints faith services director Wolfe to lead civil rights enforcement for up to 25% of U.S. workforce, an office set for elimination.
CFPB deletes 1,700 pre-Vought pages including medical debt and solar loan consumer advisories as Russell Vought seeks to cut staff from 1,174 to 556.
US-bound Americans from Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan must enter through Dulles only after Trump’s administration cut $11.5 billion in virus monitoring.
Kennedy fires chair and vice chair of preventive services task force that determines which screenings insurers must cover at no cost under ACA.
CISA contractor at Nightwing publicly exposed AWS GovCloud admin credentials, plaintext passwords, and internal CISA system access on GitHub for six months.
EEOC orders Interior Department to pay damages to three Bureau of Indian Education employees denied religious exemptions to Biden’s 2021 COVID vaccine mandate.
Nearly half of FEMA’s senior leadership positions sit vacant with 15 days until Atlantic hurricane season after 5,000 employees departed since January 2025.
FBI Director Patel refuses to say who paid for $35,000-$50,000 luxury suite at George Strait concert he attended last year with girlfriend via government jet.
Senate adopts internal rule freezing senators’ pay during shutdowns starting in November, with no force on House and no binding effect on future Senates.
USDA employees sue Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins over ‘escalating’ Christian religious messaging to 100,000 staff, alleging First Amendment and Administrative Procedure Act violations.
House Judiciary Democrats accuse Patel and DOJ of paying over $3 million to fired FBI agents disciplined for misconduct.
Trump’s FEMA review council recommends shifting disaster recovery to states, privatizing flood insurance, and reducing federal housing aid.
GAO finds Bureau of Prisons closes 77% of sexual abuse allegations against staff inconclusively as annual complaint rate doubles to 857.
VA opened internal investigations into employees who attended vigils for Border Patrol shooting victim Alex Pretti, including union leader photographed in news coverage.
FEMA reinstates 15 whistleblowers placed on leave for signing August “Katrina Declaration” protesting fired DHS Secretary Noem’s gutting of disaster agency.
Trump signs bill ending record 76-day shutdown with DHS funding that excludes ICE and Border Patrol as Republicans pivot to reconciliation for enforcement money.
Whistleblower groups represent EPA workers disciplined over 2025 dissent letter to Administrator Zeldin, citing internal warning that punishment carried significant legal risk.
Trump fires all 24 members of National Science Board overseeing $9 billion National Science Foundation.
Some federal retirees wait more than seven months for a first check as OPM works through a backlog of nearly 50,000 applications left by 2025 workforce cuts.
USDA moves to close world’s largest agricultural research complex in Maryland despite congressional appropriations language barring closures without committee approval.
DHS says it will stop paying 100,000 employees in May as shutdown enters third month and Senate advances reconciliation bill to fund ICE without Democrats.
16 Senate Democrats demand OPM rescind plan to collect federal workers’ identifiable health claims data on HIPAA grounds.
TSA quietly advances “GoldPlus” airport privatization plan, transferring screening workforce and technology to private contractors under federal oversight.
Hennepin County charges ICE agent Gregory Morgan with assault for pointing gun at drivers from unmarked vehicle during rush-hour traffic.
Defense Secretary Hegseth gives Pentagon components 24 hours to terminate collective bargaining agreements across the department.
Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer under IG investigation after texts show staff directed to “pay attention” to her husband and father.
Social Security Administration appeals arbitrator’s order to restore telework, sending the case to a labor board with a majority of Trump appointees.
Trump administration seeks monthly collection of detailed medical records from 8 million federal workers, retirees and their families.
Trump moves to close the nation’s premier federal bee research lab six months after scientists there identified the cause of 1.6 million colony deaths.
Appeals court halts order to reinstate 1,000 Voice of America workers while leaving ruling that Kari Lake illegally led the agency intact.
CDC pauses diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and over two dozen other diseases after losing 20% to 25% of its workforce to downsizing.
USDA relocates Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City, closes all regional offices, and consolidates research operations in the largest restructuring in the agency’s history.
VA re-terminates labor contract covering 300,000 employees despite court order to restore it, and DOJ attorney tells judge the defiance makes her ruling “moot.”
Kennedy Center begins layoffs ahead of planned two-year closure, weeks after Trump-appointed board voted to shutter the venue for renovations.
Education Department abandons its headquarters of 45 years and moves into the shuttered USAID building after staff cuts leave 70% of the space empty.
CDC’s bullet-shattered windows remain papered over seven months after a gunman who blamed COVID vaccines fired 180 rounds into the agency’s campus.
Trump swears in Markwayne Mullin as Homeland Security secretary on day 39 of the DHS shutdown, with ICE agents deployed to airports and after over 400 TSA officers quit.
Treasury takes over $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio as Education Department dismantlement continues, with the agency already down half its workforce.
