A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” program, which is part of a sweeping effort to eliminate government jobs. It's the latest twist in a chaotic and ...

The number of employees on the federal government’s payroll has dropped by 277,000 since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The ...

Some 100,000 federal workers came off the government’s payroll this week, the latest bit of unwelcome news for the softening U.S. labor market.The departures coincide with the government shutdown, ...

A wave of reports in late September 2025 alleged some 100,000 U.S. federal workers resigned from their jobs on one day, sparking confusion and speculation about what caused the purported mass exodus.

About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House's "deferred resignation" offer to resign but be paid through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management.

The federal government shed 162,000 workers in October and another 6,000 in November, the BLS reported Tuesday. The reason for October’s big decline was that federal employees who accepted the ...