The Pentagon said on Friday it would start firing about 5,400 civilian employees who were on probation, the first moves by ...

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian ...

A judge has denied labor unions' request to temporarily block the administration from carrying out mass firing of ...

The Trump administration explained to Fox News Digital that probationary employees of the federal government, who are facing ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President ...

Trump's administration, with Elon Musk's DOGE, begins mass layoffs of probationary federal employees to streamline operations ...

The Department of Defense expects to lay off more than 5,000 probationary employees starting next week, as the department complies with the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the ...

"Those who we need, who are the best and brightest, are going to stay. Those who are under performers — won't," said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

A coalition of government employee unions sued late Wednesday over the Trump administration’s efforts to fire employees still in their probationary period across the federal government. The ...