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Federal layoffs drive 35% jump in unemployment claims among Washington employees
A 35% increase in federal layoffs is driving Washington unemployment claims higher, as reported by state officials.
Some US agencies tell workers not to reply to Musk's 'What did you do last week' email
Multiple U.S. federal agencies told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump's adviser Elon ...
How the Trump and DOGE terminations — perhaps the biggest job cuts in history — may affect the economy
The Trump administration’s federal mass job cuts may amount to the largest in history. That has financial ramifications for ...
HUD cuts expected to worsen America’s housing crisis, staffers say
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by ...
Patel tells FBI employees to ignore Musk’s email on work reporting, for now
Kash Patel, the newly minted head of the FBI, is making it clear the bureau does not take marching orders from Elon Musk.
Elon Musk's DOGE made tall claim of $55 bn savings after layoffs, cancelled contracts: Is it true?
DOGE, created to reduce the size of the federal workforce and government spending, posted a list of 1,125 cancelled contracts ...
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Musk demands to know what all federal workers did last week, some agencies say not to respond
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the ...
Trump and Musk aren't the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions
When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet ...
Congress ignores looming shutdown to focus on tax cuts, agency layoffs
Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal ...
WA unemployment claims from federal employees spike 35% over last year
Amid mass layoffs under President Donald Trump, 650 federal employees have filed unemployment claims in 2025 in the state, compared with 479 at this time last year.