Dave Jamieson

Elon Musk showed up in Washington in January on a promise to streamline the federal government and make it run more efficiently. But over the course of just five weeks, he’s accomplished precisely the opposite: a massive and unnecessary time […]

The Trump administration has ordered employees who work remotely for the Internal Revenue Service to return to office this month, signaling it intends to ignore telework protections in the agency’s union contract. The Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, issued

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Monday blocking certain agencies from sharing sensitive records with President Donald Trump’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE. Several labor unions filed a lawsuit earlier this month against the Education

The Trump administration’s email to federal employees demanding that they explain what they did at work last week is “plainly unlawful” and should be retracted, a federal union said Sunday. In a letter to the Office of Personnel Management, Everett

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has advised employees to respond to the Office of Personnel Management’s insulting email to the federal workforce titled “What did you do last week?” “I am informing you that the email is valid,” Chris

A line item from the Department of Government Efficiency’s “Wall of Receipts” sparked alarm inside a federal agency this week and raised new questions about the shaky accounting behind Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts. Employees at the National Labor Relations Board

President-elect Donald Trump gave his latest nominee a less-than-enthusiastic rollout in an announcement Friday. In a press release and post to his platform Truth Social, Trump said he had chosen Morgan Ortagus to be his deputy special presidential envoy for

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) picked a fight with billionaire Elon Musk over the H-1B visa program on Thursday, saying the visas enrich wealthy business owners by pushing down workers’ wages. “Elon Musk is wrong,” the Vermont senator posted on X,

As the incoming boss of the federal workforce, President-elect Donald Trump has made clear his disdain for civil servants. He’s called them “crooked” and “dishonest” people who are “destroying” the country. He’s equated them with the conspiracy theorists’ “deep state.”

The Federal Trade Commission finalized a new federal rule Tuesday that bars hotels and live-event companies from tacking on surprise fees when customers make purchases, deeming them unfair and deceptive practices. The regulation would require companies to disclose any annoying