Federal agencies could choose to fire workers en masse or offer options like buyouts. Here's what we know about how and when it could happen.

Trump proposed that Congress provide $11.3 billion for ICE, an increase over its current $10 billion. The FBI’s budget request is $10.1 billion; a reduction of $545 million and of at least 1,500 positions, including about 700 that are vacant, according to a June Justice Department budget and performance summary .

Thomas Shedd, commissioner of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, directed agencies to eliminate the “low-hanging fruit” of unnecessary federal websites.

A federal judge on Thursday granted WilmerHale’s request to expand his order nullifying a presidential directive targeting the firm to explicitly cover the entire US government.

Federal agencies are rehiring and ordering back from leave some of the employees who were laid off in the weeks after President Donald Trump took office as they scramble to fill critical gaps in services left by the Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to shrink the federal workforce.

Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ideas — are now more permanently embedded in the federal government.

This momentum, combined with unique government infrastructure and contracting requirements, led the first industry-specific cloud offerings, which remain active today. US federal agencies are still heavy cloud users,

By the time the hiring freeze lifts this fall, agencies will have been largely unable to hire new federal employees or fill vacant roles for nine months.