The federal government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader U.S. economy. Employee furloughs and potential layoffs would halt some government ...

It’s the end of another fiscal year, and with it comes what can feel like a federal government tradition: the threat of a government shutdown. The key deadline to fund the government and keep agencies ...

The U.S. federal government officially entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, marking the first shutdown since December 2018. The halt was triggered by the Senate’s failure to pass a ...

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Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Managed IT services may prove a useful part of agencies’ ...

In the first month of President Donald Trump's second term, the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has swiftly implemented a series of spending cuts across ...

A group of 21 civil servants whose team was folded into Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency resigned on Tuesday, writing in a joint letter posted publicly that they refuse to use their ...