The Department of Education’s History Shows It is Essential
President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet level ...
Firings Expand at Interior Department With Purge of Probationary Workers
More than 2,000 workers at the Interior Department were fired in recent days, according to counts from workers groups and ...
Navajo Nation sues feds over orders to block oil and gas drilling near Chaco Canyon
The complaint claims the order to remove land near Chaco Canyon from oil and gas leasing could cost residents millions of ...
Burgum says Interior Department 'completely embracing the DOGE effort'
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is all in on President Donald Trump's mission to overhaul and downsize the federal government through his recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ...
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Colorado lawmakers fire back at Trump administration’s ‘reckless’ and ‘dangerous’ layoffs of over 3,400 Forest Service employees
Colorado lawmakers and communities are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s layoffs of at least 3,400 U.S. Forest ...
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Independence Park and local FAA office caught in federal firing spree
The Trump Administration’s efforts to trim the number of federal employees reached Philadelphia in the past week.
Federal workers across the Northwest are being fired by the Trump administration. They warn of impacts to wildfires, science and historic landmarks
The letter from the federal government arrived in an email Thursday. It informed the Department of Agriculture worker that he ...
Mass firings halt work, raise safety concerns in Arizona's national parks and forests
The Trump administration's mass firing of probationary employees raises red flags for those working in Arizona's federal ...
Trump's firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours
The Trump administration has fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees who maintain and clean parks, ...
Trump administration reverses its previous decision and reinstates legal aid for migrant children
Days after telling legal groups who help migrant children who arrive in America alone — some so young they are in diapers or ...
National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers
The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of National Park Service employees fired amid government-wide reductions and hiring ...
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A Brief History of Efforts to End the Department of Education
He believed the federal government needed to be a better partner with the states, where most of education spending resided. In 1979, President Carter and Congress established the Department of ...