The cuts targeting mostly new and recently promoted workers are part of the administration's push to shrink the federal work force.

A group of eight House Republicans in the Congressional Hispanic Conference sent a warning shot to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on the chamber’s budget resolution that outlines sweeping cuts as part of advancing President Trump’s legislative agenda, adding to the complexity of getting enough support in the slim GOP majority to advance it on the…

Trump’s administration has already begun dismissing hundreds of other federal employees on probationary status, and cuts at the Defence Department, the country’s largest employer, will also target new