Concerned residents living in New Orleans describe the process of getting a permit in the city as a government failure. Sign up for our Newsletters Homeowners, electricians, and developers say it ...

A federal judge on Thursday refused to temporarily block the Trump administration’s mass layoff of federal workers while a lawsuit brought by five unions moves forward.

President Bill Clinton slashed the size of the federal government a few decades ago, but he used a different approach than ...

King County Councilmembers Reagan Dunn and Rod Dembowski introduced an ordinance Thursday to end the county’s practice of ...

Kash Patel will take the helm of the Federal Bureau of Investigation amid heated internal tensions with Trump officials.

Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s ...

President Donald Trump's layoffs of federal employees are likely to tip Washington, D.C., into a recession, an economist says ...

Federal agriculture workers laid off in "Valentine's Day Massacre" deny they were part of a bloated bureaucracy.

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump's broad cuts.

Although the recent string of accidents may be statistical anomalies, they’re still startling given how US passenger carriers ...

Also caught up in the job cuts was Ron Gregory. He worked for a USDA plant protection and quarantine office in Wyoming, but ...

In this episode, the Opinion editor Aaron Retica and the columnist Jamelle Bouie discuss how President Trump, Elon Musk and ...