President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick winners and losers — who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.

Donald Trump’s push to sack thousands of government workers has been temporarily blocked, with a judge saying the president may have unlawfully overstepped his authority to take advantage of the federal shutdown.

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to ...

Trump directs emergency funds to pay U.S. troops and federal law enforcement during the government shutdown, bypassing Congress’s budget deadlock.

A US judge ordered President Donald Trump on Wednesday to pause the planned mass layoffs of federal workers during the government shutdown after the White House said it expected to

The Trump White House is treating spending laws more like suggestions as it tries to mute the effects of the government shutdown and attack programs it considers to be Democratic priorities as it digs in for a long shutdown.

As about a third of White House staff are furloughed, DOGE and the Office of Management and Budget will keep moving along

A federal judge in California froze the Trump administration’s latest round of layoffs, saying the move is likely “illegal and in excess of authority.”

Republican leaders are refusing to negotiate until a short-term funding bill to reopen the government is passed, while Democrats say they won’t agree without guarantees on extending health insurance subsidies.