The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in ...

The Pentagon said on Friday it would start firing about 5,400 civilian employees who were on probation, the first moves by ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of ...

The Department of Defense expects to lay off more than 5,000 probationary employees starting next week, as the department ...

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President ...

A judge has denied labor unions' request to temporarily block the administration from carrying out mass firing of ...

The first firings of Defense Department civilian probationary employees are expected to start next week, with about 5,400 set ...

"Those who we need, who are the best and brightest, are going to stay. Those who are under performers — won't," said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

A DHS spokesperson says the firings focused on non-mission critical personnel in probationary roles, and the action will save roughly $50 million. The spokesperson said the reforms are happening ...