The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, the nation ...

Elon Musk, whom President Trump has given wide leeway to slash government spending with his Department of Government Efficiency, called Thursday for the elimination of whole agencies.

The federal government is the nation's largest employer, yet the size of its workforce hasn't kept up with U.S. population growth, experts say.

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

House panel advances GOP budget outline  RFK Jr. confirmed to lead HHS Federal layoffs escalate Vance: U.S. could send troops ...

Trump's order, backed by Musk, limits federal hiring and calls for workforce cuts, agency restructuring and efficiency improvements.

This paper identifies the legal problems with many of the most prominent actions: freezing funding, amending or repealing rules, and denying citizenship to children born in the United States.

Over the past 60 years, nearly every U.S. president has run a record budget deficit at some ... Roosevelt entered office when the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression, the ...

The “unitary executive theory” underpins most of the Trump administration’s most sweeping — and potentially illegal — actions ...

Senate Republicans on Thursday approved Russell Vought to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in President Donald ...