Since President Trump signed an EO to rid the government of DEI programs, the administration says 395 workers have been placed on leave and around $420 million in related contracts have been canceled.

Agencies should aim for a 30-day deadline to implement Trump’s return-to-office executive order, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

In addition, the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, announced on X (formerly Twitter) Friday that approximately $420 million in current and impending contracts—primarily focused on DEI initiatives—had been canceled, Fox added.

Sources said the White House has discussed testing a message system where President Donald Trump could message the federal government's 2 million civilian employees.

During an unscheduled stop on the casino floor at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, Donald Trump said he might terminate the contracts of thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers, reviving debunked claims that the agency has hired 88,000 enforcement agents to go after taxpayers in the past few years.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 20 aimed at dismantling all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government. The order mandated the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to collaborate with federal agencies to terminate DEI programs.

A new Office of Personnel Management memo also tells agencies to determine whether or not the new federal hires should be retained at the agency.

Donald Trump’s Justice Department cited an archaic statute in a legal filing Wednesday, arguing that the president’s executive order ending constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship should be totally kosher, since the children of Native Americans weren’t historically considered citizens, either.

The Office of Personnel Management has created a new email account meant to collect reports of suspected diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, one of a series of moves the Trump administration has taken to slash DEI efforts across the federal workforce.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is testing a new capability that would allow officials to email the entire federal government workforce from a single email address, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said in a statement Friday.

Federal DEI hires had to know what was coming when President Donald Trump began his historic second term on Monday by rescinding the Executive Order that President Biden started his term in 2021 with—one that ordered the promotion of racial preferences throughout his administration.

Donald Trump’s administration issued a 90-day pause on all foreign aid, with exceptions for Israel and Egypt, according to a new State Department memo Friday.