ICE's budget hovered around $10 billion for years. But President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are taking the agency's funding to unprecedented levels.

New employment data shows which sectors notched job growth and losses in 2025. Federal workers faced challenges, while the healthcare sector fueled job growth. Overall job growth was lower last year ...

The Fed has cut interest rates in an effort to revive an ailing labor market. Hiring ticked down in December, defying the Federal Reserve's effort to boost hiring with a recent series of interest rate ...

The 2026 observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday, is just weeks away. Do workers get a day off? Are banks and post offices open? Here’s what you need to know about the holiday’s ...

The year just ended will be remembered as the worst year ever for federal workers. Since President Trump took office, government employees have been bought out, lost civil service protections, faced ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland ends the year with almost 15,000 fewer ...

More than 317,000 employees stopped working for the federal government in 2025, according to the Office of Personnel Management, giving a glimpse into how much the nation's largest employer has ...

President Trump has declared that Christmas Eve and Dec. 26 will be federal holidays this year, meaning that federal departments and agencies will be closed. According to an executive order issued ...

To many, December 26 may feel like a holiday. Offices remain mostly empty, families are still in town and employers don't expect much work to get done when it falls on a Friday, like in 2025. Its ...

This year has been tough for many who work for the government as President Donald Trump kept his pledge to shrink the federal workforce. Just before Election Day 2024, the federal workforce employed ...

DENVER (AP) — The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation threatened Monday to withhold $24 million in federal funding from the state of Colorado for what he described as a slow response to a ...