Trump will still need to reduce the headcount by roughly 200,000 to break the Clinton record. Assessing the exact figure of ...

Hegseth signed a memo Friday to restart a deferred resignation program that emerged out of billionaire Elon Musk's "Fork in ...

The Department of Defense approved more than 20,000 applications from civilian employees in the deferred resignation program, according to a senior defense official. The tally amounts to roughly ...

Civilian workforce figures exclude military personnel and postal workers. Most totals refer to executive branch employees, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveils sweeping Pentagon overhaul, aiming to cut civilian jobs and streamline operations to ...

In an effort to further shrink the size of its civilian workforce, the Defense Department is reopening the Deferred Resignation Program and offering early retirements or voluntary separations to its ...

HHS announced a downsizing and restructuring plan that combines personnel cuts, centralization of functions, and consolidation ...

The US Treasury is planning to lay off a “substantial number” of employees through an effort to reduce the size of the US ...

Rollins noted the upcoming RIFs in reopening the window for the deferred resignations, or DRP, which employees have until April 8 to accept. Employees who accept the offer will be placed on paid ...

The department onboards about 70,000 civilian employees annually, so the freeze would reduce the number of new employees by about 6,000 monthly, the official added. “As long as we maintain the ...