A year after Trump’s DOGE cuts, workers whose lives were upended question what was saved

A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of ...
OPB

Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE’s push to cut

A portrait of President Trump hangs on the Labor Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 25. The agency is bringing back some workers who took the government's deferred resignation offer.
Wired

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

In August, months after Elon Musk left the federal government, the director of the Office of Personnel Management offered the first hard estimate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s ...
CNN

New careers, relocations and medical problems: How ex-federal workers’ lives have been upended since DOGE

For Ashley Garley, the past year has been “messy, challenging and heartbreaking.” Garley, a former contractor and malaria expert with the US Agency for International Development, was among the first ...
CNBC

One year after DOGE cuts, former federal workers find new roles

Nonprofit Work for America is helping to place former federal workers in new roles in state and local government, after the largest reduction in the federal workforce in history. Recent data from the ...