Nearly 80,000 civilian workers were shed, but the challenges spurred by the cuts aren't wholly new to the Defense Department.

A federal judge on Thursday permitted US President Donald Trump’s initiative to reduce the federal workforce to proceed amid ongoing legal battles, rejecting labor unions' request to halt the ...

Pentagon leaders cut their department’s workforce by more than 10 percent with little regard for the effects—and still has no plans to assess them, according to a congressional watchdog report ...

Roughly 78,000 civilian positions were eliminated in 2025 - about 10% of a workforce that originally exceeded 793,000.

This year has been tough for many who work for the government as President Donald Trump kept his pledge to shrink the federal workforce. Just before Election Day 2024, the federal workforce employed ...

Last week, the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s HR agency, announced that it was removing 115 job descriptions from the list of occupations, including “bowling equipment ...

In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted his administration's efforts to curb the size of the federal government's workforce while expanding private sector payrolls. "Since January, 100,000 ...

Shannon Ellis, head of the union representing Kansas City Internal Revenue Service employees, is pictured at her home in Liberty, Missouri, in July 2025. She said the workforce reductions will cause ...

Before returning to the White House, President Trump campaigned on his America First agenda. He's come through on *** lot of his campaign promises. The other side of the aisle would say that is ...