The U.S. government is the nation's largest employer. See which jobs are most common and where employees are located.

CNN is tracking the chaotic and rapidly evolving firings and layoffs at federal offices in Washington and across the United ...

DOGE operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.

Since World War II, only one president significantly shrunk the federal workforce during stable times. He sounded a little like Trump—but he was a Democrat.

Reportedly the biggest layoff of probationary federal workers so far under new Trump administration orders is underway today ...

Thousands of federal government employees ... losing nearly 1,300 probationary employees — about one-tenth of the agency’s workforce — but the final number was closer to 700, according ...

In another move aimed at remaking the federal workforce, Mr. Trump this week also signed an executive order to reduce the number of government employees and limit hiring. The administration's ...

That’s 1% of gross domestic product, and almost 5% of total federal spending. The government payroll for other developed ...

There are 55,000 total probationary employees at DOD, according to Pentagon data shared with lawmakers this week and provided ...

but HHS has not released a final number. The probationary cuts included more than 130 employees at the U.S. Cybersecurity and ...