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A hiring freeze that went into place March 2 is having unintended consequences across the Defense Department, as countless civilian employees preparing to move to new roles at new duty stations have been told to “cease and desist” with…

Updated: March 13, 2:54 p.m. ET.The Trump administration must reinstate to their jobs federal employees it has fired in the last month at six large departments after a judge on Thursday called the terminations unlawful.The…

The services are bracing for a yearlong continuing resolution instead of a budget, which maintains funding at last year’s levels even as the military tries to modernize and improve readiness.The No. 2 officers from each of the Defense…

Updated: March 12, 1:07 p.m.Organizations across the Defense Department are reeling from a spate of Trump administration directives that are putting a halt to planned personnel moves and training while plunging many civilian workers into…

The General Services Administration walked back terminations of some privately-owned buildings leased to the Government Accountability Office where employees conduct oversight of sensitive national-security programs, according to an email…

The “five things I did this week” email just became a weekly task for Defense civilians.On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added to guidance he issued last week, instructing the department’s roughly 760,000 civilian employees to send…

Mass firings began at the Defense Department this week, with multiple organizations receiving direction to place targeted probationary employees on administrative leave pending official action by the department.There are 55,000 total…

The Defense Department has put a spending freeze on civilian employees’ government credit cards, according to two memos issued Tuesday and Wednesday, forcing department civilians to cancel all scheduled non-essential travel and return from…

The CIA has begun terminating some probationary employees—generally, people with one to two years on the job, who have fewer civil service protections—the intelligence agency confirmed Thursday.The firings come a week after a federal…