Employees of federal agencies continue to wrestle with the shocks of Elon Musk’s drive to purge the government of diversity ...

Around 2.4 million individuals are employed in the federal government as of January 2025, excluding U.S. Postal Service employees, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.More ...

Lisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government. Send her secure tips ... from the new administration’s promised purge. Federal employees are scrubbing their Facebook and ...

In interviews with Mother Jones, queer and trans workers who hold wide-ranging roles in the federal government ... suspected communists—a related purge of queer workers was underway.