By Nathan Layne and Andy Sullivan (Reuters) – A tearful executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency’s workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season. …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday argued that a judge could not block the firing of 21 CIA officers assigned to diversity, equality, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) programs because U.S. spy chiefs have the power to terminate them. Congress vested CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Tulsi Gabbard, the director …
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By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will release approximately $20 million in funding for previously approved contracts that had been frozen by the Trump administration’s push to overhaul the federal government, the agency said late on Thursday. The sum represents a tiny sliver of program funding the USDA suspended after …
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(Reuters) – Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has cut three out of roughly seven people in a U.S. auto safety agency unit overseeing the safety of autonomous vehicles, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The workers fired by the agency headed by the Tesla CEO said they do not believe they were targeted because …
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The newspaper, citing six people familiar with the plans, reported that Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has removed a database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement, a list proposed by Republican President Donald Trump during his first term and formally created by Democratic former President Joe Biden. The website of the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database appeared to have been taken …
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By Jeff Mason and Bianca Flowers WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had made Alice Johnson, a Tennessee woman who was serving a life sentence for a drug crime before Trump commuted her sentence, a “pardon czar” to advise him on further acts of clemency. Trump made the announcement at …
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his earlier order that they lift a freeze of nearly all foreign aid, though he stopped short of holding them in contempt of court. The order from U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington came after the administration …
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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has halted the participation of U.S. scientists in key U.N. climate change assessments, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters, part of its broader withdrawal from climate change mitigation efforts and multilateral cooperation. The stop-work order affects staff members of the U.S. Global Change Research …
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By Jack Queen and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -The Trump administration can continue its mass firings of federal employees for now, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt President Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in …
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