The U.S. State Department fired more than 1,300 employees on Friday. The layoffs are part of the Trump administration’s plan to reduce the size of the federal government. The firings include the remaining employees working on global climate talks.

A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.

Videos show emotional scenes as tearful State Department employees emerge to applause from colleagues after being abruptly fired.

The Trump administration is pressing ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine ability to defend and promote U.S. interests abroad.

Civil servants told POLITICO they’re anxious and exhausted, but holding out hope their lawyers can still save their jobs.

"When NOAA, on behalf of Commerce, disseminated termination notices stating that Plaintiffs’ terminations were based on performance, those were inaccurate records about individuals." The post 'Deep-seated animus toward federal workers': Fired climate scientists sue Trump admin in novel class-action lawsuit looking for payday based on Privacy Act violations first appeared on Law & Crime.

Federal employees in Maryland anxiously await the Supreme Court’s decision on whether the Trump administration will be allowed to proceed with firing thousands of federal government workers.

After the Supreme Court allowed President Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.

Business Insider spoke with 16 federal workers after the Supreme Court decision that will allow federal staff cuts to continue.

Advocates of fired federal workers are poised to pivot to class actions following the recent US Supreme Court ruling that curbed universal injunctions, realigning the legal battle lines over the federal workforce.

When the Trump administration announced executive actions aimed at increasing timber production on federal lands​, Oregonians had mixed responses.