Well, would you look at that? The U.S. government is finally acting like... a government.

Gone are the days when mid-level bureaucrats could sip soy lattes, shuffle papers, ignore actual law, and still walk away with a pension fat enough to rival a small country’s GDP. The message is clear under President Trump’s America First administration: Do your job—or don’t expect to keep it.

We start with news that president Donald Trump has signed an executive order limiting numerous federal workers from unionising and ordering the government to stop engaging in any collective bargaining.

A memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) references an order from Trump but also provides a fact sheet, setting out the rationale for such a move, The Hill reports.

It reads: “President Trump is taking action to ensure that agencies vital to national security can execute their missions without delay and protect the American people.”

The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it is cutting 10,000 full-time employees across health agencies, the department told CNN.

This comes on top of 10,000 employees who’ve left voluntarily, shrinking the workforce from about 82,000 full-time employees to 62,000.

The cuts were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced he intends to slash the size of the department he leads by a huge fraction – around 10,000 jobs out of the 82,000 full time workforce.

Kennedy announced on Thursday that he also plans to close some regional offices.

The restructuring, along with previous voluntary departures, will result in a total downsizing to 62,000.

Federal workers are sharply divided over President Donald Trump’s return-to-office mandate, and more than a quarter of those who say they were previously able to do their jobs from home are actively looking for another job, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new way of working remotely, but even companies that initially championed the model are changing their tune.

In recent months, staffers across corporate America, from Amazon to Dell to Walmart, as well as federal government workers, have been told that their days of working remotely are over — at least, with that employer. Instead, select employees have been called back into offices five days a week, a reversal of conversations in 2020 that touted remote and hybrid options as the future of work.

Washington, D.C., has seen a surge in commuters returning to the office, but the federal government’s push for in-person work has also exposed widening gaps left since the workforce went remote during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Return to work was a key priority for President Donald Trump‘s administration and the local officials in Washington, but as workers returned to the office, there have been many complications — one being the state of the offices they returned to.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday refused to pause a judge's ruling requiring the Trump administration to reinstate 25,000 workers at 18 federal agencies who lost their jobs as part of the Republican president's purge of the federal workforce.

A panel of the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there was no reason to pause the decision because the judge in Baltimore, Maryland is expected to decide next week whether to extend it further, in a lawsuit brought by 19 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C....

US President Donald Trump's administration is working to bring back nearly 25,000 fired federal workers after judges ruled their terminations were illegal, court documents show.

Officials at 18 departments and agencies have submitted documents to a federal court detailing their efforts to rehire the laid off probationary workers to comply with the court orders.

Last week, two federal judges said the mass layoffs of the recently hired workers was illegal and ordered them to be reinstated pending further litigation.

President Donald Trump's administration says it is moving to reinstate more than 24,000 probationary workers it fired as part of its efforts to slash the size of the federal workforce, court documents filed Monday show.

Officials at 18 departments and agencies submitted signed declarations detailing their teams' efforts to rehire the fired workers in order to comply with court orders. Last week two federal judges ordered the administration to temporarily reinstate thousands of probationary workers who were fired.