Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

(THE CONVERSATION) The Trump administration is moving ahead with policy changes that would make it easier to fire some federal workers. The Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, filed proposed regulations in the Federal Register on April 23, 2025, that would reclassify about 50,000 career civil servants as “at-will” employees.

VA nurses warn that veteran care could deteriorate even if frontline workers are exempt from layoffs. “When you lay off support staff, our jobs get harder."

President Donald Trump is accelerating efforts to transform the nonpartisan, merit-based federal workforce into one that demands and rewards loyalty to the president, according to civil servants, public service experts and employment attorneys.

Thousands of federal employees are being asked to return after abrupt layoffs disrupted tax processing, weather alerts, drug approvals, and aid programs across the country.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was forced to briefly close when NARA fired its probationary employees in February. The RIFs will mark only a portion of the staffing losses the agency ultimately sustains, as many additional workers have already taken buyouts or early retirement offers.

The Office of Special Counsel has for nearly 50 years been the US government’s one-stop shop for whistleblowers and alleged ethics violations, a federal watchdog created after Watergate with the lofty mandate “to end government and political corruption.

Federal workers say taxpayers are now getting far less from the government because of the DOGE-led effort to cut the workforce.

Notice of Reduction in Force (RIF) issued to you…is officially RESCINDED [and] you will not be separated from employment,” read one absurdly euphemistic email.

Walmart has begun laying off employees at some of its Florida stores after a recent Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration to revoke legal protections previously extended to hundreds of thousands of migrants.

The Trump Administration fired all 13 Biden-appointed members of a key federal education research board last month, a move that drew sharp rebuke from former members amid the Administration’s ongoing campaign to dismantle the Department of Education.

The Education Department's notice comes after a federal judge last month ordered it to reinstate nearly 1,400 recently fired employees.