Federal employment is slipping at a pace that is starting to reshape how Washington touches daily life, from airport security lines to Social Security call centers. The headline story is not just that ...

When President Donald Trump took the oath of office for a second time in January, more than 3 million people worked for the federal government. Over the 10months since, that total has declined ...

Unions representing federal workers on Wednesday renewed their bid to block President Donald Trump from stripping tens of thousands ​of government employees of job protections, making them easier to ...

Across Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, the federal workforce shrank in 2025 by 1,700 jobs. Statewide, New York lost 8,300 federal jobs, a drop of about 7.1%. Trump’s push to cut federal jobs ...

Amid President Trump’s bureaucracy-slashing directives, the federal workforce shrunk by about nearly 10 percent in 2025.

Despite several ongoing lawsuits challenging the reduction in force, altogether, the 23 agencies shrunk by a total of more ...