The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a reduction in its workforce and the closure of its scientific research office. This move is part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to reduce the size of the federal government.

The Trump administration asked the justices to set aside an injunction blocking its layoffs of 1,400 Education Department employees.

Other agencies are moving forward with RIFs and terminations, but official tells federal court some plans have changed.

Trump administration officials have defended the mass dismissals, saying they are overdue and necessary to make the department leaner and more efficient. Among the employees laid off are more than 100 people who worked in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which is self-funded from passport and visa fees.

President Donald Trump's administration has told a federal judge that it cannot be ordered to disclose federal agencies' reorganization and mass layoff plans as part of a lawsuit seeking to block them from being implemented.

Harvard’s five largest campus unions urged the University to pledge to a suite of worker protections amid federal attacks in a Monday letter emailed to Harvard’s top officials.

The Supreme Court cleared the way for mass Education Department layoffs, bolstering President Donald Trump’s federal workforce cuts while legal battles continue.

Cleveland is bracing for a potential $28 million shortfall in federal funding that could devastate the community development department and a dozen neighborhood nonprofits.