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Great piece from CNN highlighting the human impact of recent federal workforce cuts. Behind every statistic is a public servant whose life, family, and sense of purpose has been upended. 🔗
Great piece from CNN highlighting the human impact of recent federal workforce cuts. Behind every statistic is a public servant whose life, family, and sense of purpose has been upended. 🔗
New careers, relocations and medical problems: How ex-federal workers’ lives have been upended since DOGE | CNN Politics
CNN spoke with several former federal workers who were laid off or accepted buyouts amid DOGE’s aggressive and controversial cuts last year. They’ve had very different experiences since then.
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February 17, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Great piece from CNN highlighting the human impact of recent federal workforce cuts. Behind every statistic is a public servant whose life, family, and sense of purpose has been upended. 🔗
Great piece from CNN highlighting the human impact of recent federal workforce cuts. Behind every statistic is a public servant whose life, family, and sense of purpose has been upended. 🔗
Office of Personnel Management has directed agencies to terminate collective bargaining agreements and derecognize unions under Trump’s executive orders, despite ongoing lawsuits. Agencies must cancel contracts, halt grievances and arbitration, and update personnel files monthly.
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Office of Personnel Management has directed agencies to terminate collective bargaining agreements and derecognize unions under Trump’s executive orders, despite ongoing lawsuits. Agencies must cancel contracts, halt grievances and arbitration, and update personnel files monthly.
OPM plans to take employee appeals from the independent MSPB, including RIF cases, putting decisions inside the same agency that ordered them. This weakens direct management oversight and independent review, giving OPM greater power to remove workers with fewer checks and less employee recourse.
February 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
OPM plans to take employee appeals from the independent MSPB, including RIF cases, putting decisions inside the same agency that ordered them. This weakens direct management oversight and independent review, giving OPM greater power to remove workers with fewer checks and less employee recourse.
AFSCME warns a new rule stripping civil service protections will let the administration replace career experts with political loyalists, weakening public services and worker rights. The union calls it an attack on safety and accountability and says it will return to court to block the rule.
AFSCME’s Saunders: This is an outrageous effort to replace dedicated, expert civil servants with political minions who will push the administration’s extreme anti-worker agenda
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February 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM
AFSCME warns a new rule stripping civil service protections will let the administration replace career experts with political loyalists, weakening public services and worker rights. The union calls it an attack on safety and accountability and says it will return to court to block the rule.
SSA is pulling people who process claims to answering phones explaining why claims aren’t processed. Naturally, stop the work that lowered them. No training replaces decades of experience, and strategic deployment means moving the lifeboat crew to customer service. Efficiency at its finest.
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
SSA is pulling people who process claims to answering phones explaining why claims aren’t processed. Naturally, stop the work that lowered them. No training replaces decades of experience, and strategic deployment means moving the lifeboat crew to customer service. Efficiency at its finest.
I know this is unsettling for many feds. This allows some policy-related jobs to be moved to “Schedule Policy/Career,” which could reduce protections and make removals easier. Agencies will decide which positions to convert, leaving employees anxious about what’s next.
Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduct....
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February 6, 2026 at 1:29 PM
I know this is unsettling for many feds. This allows some policy-related jobs to be moved to “Schedule Policy/Career,” which could reduce protections and make removals easier. Agencies will decide which positions to convert, leaving employees anxious about what’s next.
OPM’s new rule lets agencies move many career feds to “at-will” status, stripping due-process and whistleblower protections, this is bad for job security. AFGE says it politicizes the civil service, risks retaliation, and harms operations. The union will sue.
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
OPM’s new rule lets agencies move many career feds to “at-will” status, stripping due-process and whistleblower protections, this is bad for job security. AFGE says it politicizes the civil service, risks retaliation, and harms operations. The union will sue.
Congress extended a moratorium blocking widespread federal layoffs through Feb. 13 in the DHS funding bill, likely keeping a court pause on RIFs for all agencies. Unions call it a temporary win, but future protection depends on Congress adding the safeguard to final appropriations.
Federal Workers Win Another Layoff Reprieve in DHS Funding Bill
The moratorium on mass layoffs of federal workers will continue into mid-February after Congress passed a stop-gap measure funding the Department of Homeland Security, the office of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Congress extended a moratorium blocking widespread federal layoffs through Feb. 13 in the DHS funding bill, likely keeping a court pause on RIFs for all agencies. Unions call it a temporary win, but future protection depends on Congress adding the safeguard to final appropriations.
OPM revised shutdown guidance, removing earlier language guaranteeing back pay for furloughed feds and leaving pay to future congressional action. The update also drops leave and RIF protections and allows some performance-based adverse actions during a lapse.
OPM removes language on back pay for furloughed feds from shutdown guidance | Federal News Network
OPM's shutdown guidance also added a section stating that performance-based adverse actions against employees are allowed in some cases during a funding lapse.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
OPM revised shutdown guidance, removing earlier language guaranteeing back pay for furloughed feds and leaving pay to future congressional action. The update also drops leave and RIF protections and allows some performance-based adverse actions during a lapse.
What to know about the partial government shutdown.
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February 2, 2026 at 6:17 PM
What to know about the partial government shutdown.
What federal employees should know: A partial shutdown is ongoing and could last several days. The Senate passed funding for most agencies, but DHS is excluded. House Democrats won’t fast-track the bill, delaying reopening. Some agencies remain funded. DHS-linked services face continued disruption.
February 1, 2026 at 10:54 PM
What federal employees should know: A partial shutdown is ongoing and could last several days. The Senate passed funding for most agencies, but DHS is excluded. House Democrats won’t fast-track the bill, delaying reopening. Some agencies remain funded. DHS-linked services face continued disruption.
With hours left before the deadline, the Senate moved closer to passing a funding deal after Sen. Lindsey Graham lifted his hold. But because the House is in recess, a short partial government shutdown is still considered likely, even if the Senate approves the package.
January 30, 2026 at 11:48 PM
With hours left before the deadline, the Senate moved closer to passing a funding deal after Sen. Lindsey Graham lifted his hold. But because the House is in recess, a short partial government shutdown is still considered likely, even if the Senate approves the package.
Shutdown News: Senate leaders struck a short-term deal to fund DHS for two weeks as a shutdown deadline nears, but passage isn’t assured. Democrats pushed DHS reforms after recent fatal shootings by federal agents. The House is in recess, making a brief shutdown increasingly likely.
January 30, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Shutdown News: Senate leaders struck a short-term deal to fund DHS for two weeks as a shutdown deadline nears, but passage isn’t assured. Democrats pushed DHS reforms after recent fatal shootings by federal agents. The House is in recess, making a brief shutdown increasingly likely.
The U.S. is nearing a partial government shutdown starting 12:01 a.m. Saturday if the Senate can’t pass a funding bill. Democrats refuse to back DHS funding after the Minneapolis killings by federal agents. If talks fail, agencies like IRS, DOT, etc. could shut down, with furloughs and unpaid work.
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The U.S. is nearing a partial government shutdown starting 12:01 a.m. Saturday if the Senate can’t pass a funding bill. Democrats refuse to back DHS funding after the Minneapolis killings by federal agents. If talks fail, agencies like IRS, DOT, etc. could shut down, with furloughs and unpaid work.
A second fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis has sparked national backlash and raised shutdown risks. Senate Democrats vow to block DHS funding, citing accountability concerns, as protests grow and a winter storm disrupts Washington. Watch live updates.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
A second fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis has sparked national backlash and raised shutdown risks. Senate Democrats vow to block DHS funding, citing accountability concerns, as protests grow and a winter storm disrupts Washington. Watch live updates.
Federal employees’ union NTEU filed a complaint accusing the Trump administration of breaking labor laws after Department of Health and Human Services tightened telework approval for disabled workers. The union says the policy discourages reasonable accommodations and plans to seek arbitration.
January 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Federal employees’ union NTEU filed a complaint accusing the Trump administration of breaking labor laws after Department of Health and Human Services tightened telework approval for disabled workers. The union says the policy discourages reasonable accommodations and plans to seek arbitration.
GAO says SSA is losing staff after telework was essentially banned. Shocking, right? Telework was a top recruitment and retention tool, nearly half of those planning to leave cited its loss, and leadership didn’t evaluate the impact. Now skills gaps loom as staffing drops.
January 24, 2026 at 3:59 PM
GAO says SSA is losing staff after telework was essentially banned. Shocking, right? Telework was a top recruitment and retention tool, nearly half of those planning to leave cited its loss, and leadership didn’t evaluate the impact. Now skills gaps loom as staffing drops.
A federal arbitrator ordered HHS to restore telework for National Treasury Employees Union members, ruling Trump’s return to work memo can’t override union contracts. I'd expect similar rulings and negotiations at other agencies with active CBAs.
Trump’s return-to-office memo doesn’t override telework protections in union contract, arbitrator tells HHS
More than a year into the second Trump administration, several recent exceptions to its return-to-office policy for federal employees have emerged.
federalnewsnetwork.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:07 PM
A federal arbitrator ordered HHS to restore telework for National Treasury Employees Union members, ruling Trump’s return to work memo can’t override union contracts. I'd expect similar rulings and negotiations at other agencies with active CBAs.
Hu? Wtf? Where are these factory jobs making 3x what we are?
Trump brags about cutting 300k “boring” 🙄😡 federal jobs, claiming, with zero evidence mind you, those workers now make 2–3x more in factory jobs. But, uh, unemployment is rising in fed-heavy states (odd).
Trump brags about cutting 300k “boring” 🙄😡 federal jobs, claiming, with zero evidence mind you, those workers now make 2–3x more in factory jobs. But, uh, unemployment is rising in fed-heavy states (odd).
Trump defends cutting nearly 300,000 feds from their ‘boring’ jobs
The president claimed without evidence that all federal workers forced out during his first year back were now in “better” jobs in factories making double or triple their government salary.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Hu? Wtf? Where are these factory jobs making 3x what we are?
Trump brags about cutting 300k “boring” 🙄😡 federal jobs, claiming, with zero evidence mind you, those workers now make 2–3x more in factory jobs. But, uh, unemployment is rising in fed-heavy states (odd).
Trump brags about cutting 300k “boring” 🙄😡 federal jobs, claiming, with zero evidence mind you, those workers now make 2–3x more in factory jobs. But, uh, unemployment is rising in fed-heavy states (odd).
On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we remember that civil liberties were hard-won through sacrifice and courage. As federal employees, protecting civil rights, due process, and the rule of law matters now more than ever. Safeguarding these freedoms isn’t political, it’s our duty!
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January 19, 2026 at 2:46 PM
On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we remember that civil liberties were hard-won through sacrifice and courage. As federal employees, protecting civil rights, due process, and the rule of law matters now more than ever. Safeguarding these freedoms isn’t political, it’s our duty!
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Under Trump, OPM reports 317K federal exits, hiring freezes, return-to-office, stricter probation and performance rules, and program cuts. Moves that directly affect job security, workloads, and long-term federal careers.
Under Trump, OPM reports 317K federal exits, hiring freezes, return-to-office, stricter probation and performance rules, and program cuts. Moves that directly affect job security, workloads, and long-term federal careers.
Under President Trump, OPM Delivers a More Accountable and Effective Federal Workforce
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Under Trump, OPM reports 317K federal exits, hiring freezes, return-to-office, stricter probation and performance rules, and program cuts. Moves that directly affect job security, workloads, and long-term federal careers.
Under Trump, OPM reports 317K federal exits, hiring freezes, return-to-office, stricter probation and performance rules, and program cuts. Moves that directly affect job security, workloads, and long-term federal careers.
AFGE made a decision to begin separating a unit of ICE officers after they sought to leave the union. AFGE emphasized respect for worker choice, noting the step follows legal process.
Largest Federal Workers Union Begins Process to Legally Separate ICE Officers Unit from Parent Union
In a “difficult decision,” AFGE today filed paperwork with Federal Labor Relations Authority disclaiming interest in unit of ICE officers that has advocated to disaffiliate from national union and bro...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:07 AM
AFGE made a decision to begin separating a unit of ICE officers after they sought to leave the union. AFGE emphasized respect for worker choice, noting the step follows legal process.
Check out this article that breaks down the FY26 spending “minibus” what it funds, what cuts were avoided, new workforce data demands, and how Congress is trying to limit agency shakeups while averting a shutdown.
A federal workforce census, targeted cuts and more key takeaways from the latest FY26 spending package
The latest "minibus" fully funds some offices Trump sought to zero out, creates a new flexible account for the president and has some suggestions for new federal building designs.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Check out this article that breaks down the FY26 spending “minibus” what it funds, what cuts were avoided, new workforce data demands, and how Congress is trying to limit agency shakeups while averting a shutdown.
House Republicans are split as 9 GOP moderates joined Democrats to force votes on reviving expired ACA subsidies, while conservatives oppose parts of a key three-bill spending package. Its narrow and internal fights increase the odds of a government shutdown if funding bills stall.
9 Republicans back Dem effort to revive Obamacare subsidies
The vote put House Republicans on the record for the first time this Congress on the enhanced tax credits that expired at the end of last year.
www.politico.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
House Republicans are split as 9 GOP moderates joined Democrats to force votes on reviving expired ACA subsidies, while conservatives oppose parts of a key three-bill spending package. Its narrow and internal fights increase the odds of a government shutdown if funding bills stall.