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Mass Firing of Probationary Federal Employees Was Illegal, Judge Rules

13 septembre 2025 à 20:09
Months have passed since the lawsuit was filed, and many of the fired employees have moved on, the judge noted.

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Judge William H. Alsup found the terminations illegal because they came at the direction of the Office of Personnel Management and not the agencies where the employees worked, which hold the authority to hire and fire.

Trump White House Exerts Enormous Influence Over FBI, Lawsuit Says

10 septembre 2025 à 13:19
A sprawling suit by three fired F.B.I. officials provides a disturbing account of efforts by top Trump aides to strip the bureau of its independence.

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A lawsuit filed by three former F.B.I. officials charges the bureau director Kash Patel dismissed them as part of “a campaign of retribution” for their “failure to demonstrate sufficient personal and political loyalty.”

RFK Jr., Rejecting Vaccine Data, Fuels Distrust of Public Health Agencies

7 septembre 2025 à 13:35
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifying before the Senate Committee on Finance on Thursday.

Watchdog Warns Trump’s Cuts at FEMA Pose a ‘Major Challenge’

3 septembre 2025 à 15:52
The country lacks the ability to address multiple disasters happening at once, the Government Accountability Office said.

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Workers with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in October looking through the wreckage after Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C.
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  • What We Saw at a Job Fair for ICE
    As ICE ramps up for more deportations under President Trump, Nicholas Nehamas, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with applicants at an ICE recruitment fair in Texas.
     

What We Saw at a Job Fair for ICE

As ICE ramps up for more deportations under President Trump, Nicholas Nehamas, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with applicants at an ICE recruitment fair in Texas.

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights

1 septembre 2025 à 13:54
The president, who has targeted collective bargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on national security.

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Edwin Osorio, president of Local 3369, the union representing the Social Security Administration, speaking at a news conference in New York last month.

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

31 août 2025 à 12:37
President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.

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Dr. Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, was dismissed after a 35-year career as part of the Trump administration’s plan to drastically reduce the size of the federal work force.

For Democrats, Hindsight Is 2021

29 août 2025 à 18:43
Democrats once had a chance to blunt a couple of the moves President Trump is making now, on redistricting and the takeover of the police force in Washington, D.C.

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The U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Back in the spring of 2021, when Democrats controlled the House and Senate, there were two measures that would have helped to protect against some of President Trump’s current moves.

Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections

29 août 2025 à 00:21
The pre-Labor Day order included NASA, the National Weather Service and the agency that oversees Voice of America.

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NASA was among the government agencies ordered to end all collective bargaining agreements.
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