Trump two-gender edict would upend ‘X’ identity on passports
As of 2022, U.S. citizens have been able to select “X” as their gender marker on passports. One’s marker does not need to ...
Presidential inauguration fact check: Analyzing claims from and about Trump
The USA TODAY Fact Check Team is monitoring the inauguration ceremony, other addresses from Trump and former Present Joe Biden and reactions from around the country to sort fact from fiction and add ...
Trump orders all federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday
The Trump administration is ordering all federal employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles placed on paid leave by ...
Exclusive: DHS ends teleworking, requires employees to work in person
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman on Monday evening ordered all DHS employees back to work, following an executive order from President Donald Trump on his first day ...
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Federal employees quietly edit job descriptions to protect roles from DOGE scrutiny
As President-elect Donald Trump’s administration prepares to take over Washington, some federal employees are quietly changing the language of job descriptions and performance reviews in an ...
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Remote Work Became a Washington Way of Life. Is That About to Change?
Federal employees and others in the capital have grown attached to work-from-home arrangements. But hybrid work may disappear in the second Trump era. By Noam Scheiber Noam Scheiber, who covers ...
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Trump Aims to Cut the Federal Work Force. It’s Already Historically Low.
As policymakers have tried to keep the head count low, the number of people doing federal work as employees of federal contractors has ballooned. A Brookings Institution scholar estimated the ...
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DHS Secretary Mayorkas leaves with ‘remarkable’ employee morale improvement
His first term demonstrated, by word and deed, his disdain for federal employees. He undermined ... When he became secretary in 2021, he decided his “number one organizational priority was ...
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Feds waste $7 billion on office space, even though half of employees work from home, House GOP report says
The federal government is wasting $7 billion on leases for office space — despite around half of its employees working from home on a regular basis more than four years after the start of the ...
Trump orders all federal DEI employees to be placed on paid leave starting today
The Trump administration is ordering all federal employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles placed on paid leave by Wednesday evening, according to a new memo from the Office of Personnel ...