DOGE-led mass firings of federal employees are tearing at the promise of job security that's come with government work for more than a century. Why it matters: Millions of federal workers are now feeling the same kind of job anxiety more familiar to those in corporate America,

President Trump and Elon Musk have spent several weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there are more to come. These are the reported cuts to date.