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.
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.
