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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are determined to force federal employees to return to the office in hopes that some will opt ...

The 2024 election has brought significant changes, with Donald Trump returning to the White House after securing both the ...

President-elect Trump’s plans to reshape the federal workforce would allow him to fire wide swaths of career employees and ...

Lots of local services get grants from D.C. The president-elect has threatened to slash that funding in the past.