Only a day into his second term, President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda began to take fuller shape, as his administration raced to delete a dizzying array of federal rules meant to combat ...

A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to talk about the handover of power. But what is normally a routine ...

On Wednesday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen takes a look at what's next after a federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration ...

As Gov. Glenn Youngkin was assuring Virginians on Tuesday that direct federal aid would not be suspended as part of the Trump administration funding freeze, an internal memo obtained by The ...

CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Changeover among federal government agencies is normal when a new administration comes to Washington, with presidents regularly dismissing appointees selected by predecessors ...

The warning came one day after the administration ordered that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the government be shut down by 5 p.m. Wednesday. By Erica L. Green and Hamed Aleaziz ...

President Donald Trump targeted federal workers in an opening act aimed at exerting political control over a sprawling bureaucracy — putting federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House told federal agencies to detail by Friday a list of federal employees who are on probationary status and make recommendations on whether they should remain on ...

On Monday, President Donald Trump filed an executive order requiring federal employees who were doing their jobs remotely to return to the office for in-person work. Here's what we know.

President Donald Trump signed an order within hours of taking office on Monday to make it easier to fire thousands of federal agency employees and replace them with political loyalists. The ...

All agencies are under a 90-day hiring freeze with the exception of military personnel of the armed forces or of positions related to immigration enforcement, national security or public safety. The ...