Trump administration moves to more easily fire some agency employees: Reuters

Trump’s picks for OPM, OMB face federal workforce probes from Senate committee

Two of President Donald Trump’s picks to take the reins in a major overhaul of the federal workforce faced probes from senators during their dual nomination hearing Thursday. Scott Kupor, Trump’s nominee for director of the Office of Personnel Management, and Eric Ueland, nominee for deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, fielded a range of federal workforce questions from lawmakers on the Homeland Security and Go…

TRUMP’S FBI: Netting Big Fish Results In BIG Changes ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

The following article, TRUMP’S FBI: Netting Big Fish Results In BIG Changes, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Personnel, they say, IS policy. The difference in how the FBI conducts itself now, compared to Trump’s FIRST term is proof positive. In Trump 1.0, the FBI was hostile and subversive. In the Biden years, it was open season on anyone the left considered an ‘enemy’. That includes entrapment. (Remember the time a Fed infiltra…

Adversaries attempting to recruit laid-off government workers as spies: Intelligence

Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China are targeting government workers who have been laid off amid the Trump administration’s attempt to downsize to recruit as spies, according to new intelligence. “New intelligence indicates agents from China, Russia, and other countries have set their sights on recently fired probationary workers, or those with security clearances, hoping to obtai…

Trump energy secretary during Golden lab visit doubles down on minimizing climate change • Colorado Newsline

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright talks to reporters on April 3, 2025, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. (Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, returning to the Denver area Thursday after he was confirmed as a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, repeatedly minimized the consequences of climate change when speaking to reporters during a press conference.  Wright, founder of Denver-ba…

U.S. Energy Secretary has no clear answer on federal workforce purges, firings to come

The only Coloradan in Trump's cabinet came home today to questions about Coloradans working for the Department of Energy being fired in federal workforce purges.

Elie Mystal ‘Really Worried’ He Could ‘Get Snatched Up Off The Street’ By Trump Admin For His Articles

Elie Mystal said during a Thursday interview that he is truly concerned about President Donald Trump's administration snatching him up over his articles.