Federal Workers

All Articles

October 10, 2025
Trump administration moves forward with “substantial” job cuts in an unprecedented shutdown strategy, sparking backlash from Democrats.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, theGrio.com
September 24, 2025
The GSA has given former staffers until the end of the week to decide, after costly downsizing left the agency…
July 8, 2025
The Supreme Court allows Trump administration to proceed with federal workforce cuts, overruling lower court freeze.
June 7, 2025
DOJ's emergency appeal to the high court said a U.S. district judge exceeded his authority last month in his ruling.
thegrio, Supreme Court, federal workers,
April 9, 2025
It’s the third time in less than a week that the justices have sided with the Trump administration in its…
thegrio, HHS, layoffs, tracking disease, RFK Jr
April 1, 2025
The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff, part of…
Federal Employees, theGrio.com
March 18, 2025
Black federal workers are targeted through a combination DEI cuts, employee buyouts and layoffs executed by the Trump administration.
thegrio. HHS, buyouts, Trump administration, RFK Jr.
March 9, 2025
The mass email went out to a “broad population of HHS employees," landing in their inboxes days before the agencies…
Trump layoffs, Trump federal layoffs, cdc layoffs theGrio.com
March 6, 2025
This week, employees received emails calling them back to work "after further review and consideration" following mass layoffs.
thegrio, DOGE, federal buildings,
March 5, 2025
The 443 buildings, which are currently owned and maintained by GSA, span almost 80 million rentable square feet, the agency…
thegrio, elon musk, DOGE, federal employees
February 25, 2025
The mass resignation is a temporary setback for Musk and the president’s tech-driven purge of the federal workforce. 
thegrio, elon musk, DOGE, federal workers, federal government
February 24, 2025
Thousands of federal employee face a deadline to explain their recent accomplishments or risk losing their jobs.
thegrio, trump, buyout, federal employees
February 6, 2025
The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline for workers to apply for the deferred resignation program.
thegrio, DOGE, federal employees, buyout, Trump
February 6, 2025
The administration ramped up its pressure on employees to leave, sending a reminder that layoffs or furloughs could come next.
June 24, 2024
Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are quietly probing the social media and commentary of government staffers.
January 31, 2022
Black and Brown employees of federal contractors are expected to see pay increases due to a Biden executive order that…
February 12, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama increased the minimum wage for a few hundred thousand federal contractors on Wednesday, then…
January 28, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will sign an executive order setting the minimum wage for workers under new federal…
October 5, 2013
NBC News - The House on Saturday unanimously approved legislation to provide retroactive pay for furloughed federal workers after the…
October 1, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The shutdown will impact in different ways some of the nation's more than 2 million civilian workers,…