Washington — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails on Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero,
The Trump administration has paused the firings of hundreds of federal employees working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in a reversal that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk. Late Thursday afternoon, a number probationary employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration were fired, a
Trump campaigned on reducing the size of the government. The Trump administration fired thousands of workers across several government agencies after the deadline for employees to accept a buyout passed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was among the agencies to confirm it had fired workers to comply with directives from President Donald Trump. “EPA
Jim Byron’s nomination comes a week after Trump dismissed archivist Colleen Shogan from her post. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has named Jim Byron, president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, as a senior adviser at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Trump stated that Byron will work under the
Washington — President Trump’s firings of the members of independent agencies and boards have prompted a string of legal fights that could set the Supreme Court up to reconsider and potentially overturn a 90-year-old decision that shields certain executive branch officials from being removed after political shifts in the White House. Since returning to the
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is already searching for cutting-edge missile defense technologies after President Donald Trump signed a new executive order, calling for an “Iron Dome for America.” The executive order gave the Department of Defense 60 days to evaluate the U.S. missile defense network and overhaul it with hypersonic weapon sensors, space-based missile interceptors,
‘We are frustrated by the exploitation of our diverse backgrounds as shields to deflect criticism away from the State Department,’ the fellows wrote (Getty Images) As the Biden administration grappled with internal unrest over its November 2023 decision to continue arming Israel, a group of State Department “diversity” fellows took the unusual step of authoring