French journalists covering Monday’s meeting between Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron pushed to have a Paris-based Associated Press reporter ask the first question at a press conference, defying the White House’s decision to shut the AP out of official events. Earlier this month, the White House began denying the AP’s access to Trump…

More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a…

President Donald Trump backed Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments by the end of Monday or risk getting fired, even as government agency officials were told that compliance with Musk’s edict was voluntary. Confusion and anger over the situation spawned new litigation and added to turmoil within the federal workforce. Trump…

Chosen Replacement is Underqualified President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign led by his defense secretary to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in…

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” in the words of…

“I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years to continue service to the federal government, doing what I was trained to do by them,” he says. “I kind of feel like I was just thrown out like a piece of trash.” A military vet and a scientist were securing America’s food…

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring the growing bird flu outbreak, Politico reports. Trump Firings Impact ‘Front Line of Surveillance’ for Bird Flu Outbreak https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-firings-bird-flu-surveillance-1235269620

While air traffic controllers were supposedly immune from the purge, some air traffic control support workers were terminated, the FAA worker says. Rolling Stone separately spoke with a fired FAA employee whose job involved ensuring flight paths account for hazards like cranes and new buildings, as well as another terminated FAA staffer who ensured that…

They don’t want to say it’s Elon Musk because Elon Musk has no legal authority. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly affirmed Musk’s leadership of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But according to a new court filing from the White House, the administrator of DOGE isn’t Elon Musk after all. Who is? No one knows.…

The former employee said they were let go because of “inadequate performance” despite having received “exceptional” performance reviews from supervisors. The employee, who had been with the EPA since the summer, had moved their entire family to Chicago for the job. “I’m a disabled vet and the only thing I ever asked for from this…